Human Nature by Edith Wharton First Edition Pulitzer Winning Nobel Nominated

Description: VIRTUALLY ALL THAT IS WRONG WITH THIS BOOK IS ON THE FRONT COVER. BOARDS ARE DISCOLORED AND WORN BUT THE FRONT COVER HAS A LARGE STAIN TO THE CLOTH THAT RAISED IT A BIT AND WHAT APPEARS TO BE BLACK INK WRITING ABOVE IT. AS REQUIRED, THIS COPY HAS THE (1) AFTER THE LAST WORD ON THE LAST PAGE, SIGNIFYING A FIRST PRINTING FOR APPLETON. INTERIOR HAS SIGNIFICANT AGE RELATED PAPER TONING. THERE ARE SMALL PAPER SPLITS BETWEEN END PAPER AND PASTE DOWN IN BOTH FRONT AND REAR (SEE PHOTOS). NO HARD CREASES NOTED, NO INTERIOR WRITING NOTED (THOUGH IT DOES APPEAR THAT A PENCIL INSCRIPTION WAS ERASED ON FRONT END PAPER), NO TEARS NOTED. BINDING IS TIGHT, SLIGHTLY SLANTED. WEAR TO CLOTH EDGES, CORNERS AND SPINE EDGES. THIS IS NOT YOUR FINAL COPY BUT IT IS A FIRST EDITION PLACE HOLDER. FADING TO BLUE DYE OF BOARDS REALLY, WITH THAT STAINING TO THE COVER, THE BOOK CAN BE RATED AS "ACCEPTABLE" ONLY Edith Wharton born Edith Newbold Jones; was a Pulitzer-prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.The Age Of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making Wharton the first woman to win the award. Wharton was friend and confidante to many gifted intellectuals of her time: Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Jean Cocteau, and Andre Gide were all guests of hers at one time or another. Theodore Roosevelt, Bernard Berenson, and Kenneth Clark were valued friends as well. But her meeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald is described by the editors of her letters as "one of the better known failed encounters in the American literary annals." She spoke fluent French (as well as several other languages), and many of her books were published in both French and English.Edith Wharton died of a stroke in 1937 at the domaine Le Pavillon Colombe, her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt. The street is today called rue Edith Wharton. She is buried in the American Cemetary in Versailles, France. shakcherry

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