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Premier Catalog Auction Day 2

Fri, Jul 13, 2018 09:00AM EDT
Lot 775

Edith Wharton Autographed Novel

Estimate: $400 - $800

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The Custom Of The Country, New York: Charles Scribner & Sons, 1913, cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine, book plate tipped in reads "The American Library in Paris, Inc. 10, Rue de L'elysee", inscribed in ink "For Reubell, From Edith Wharton, Nov. 1913"

Condition

foxing, rubbing to boards, bumped corners, back page folded, some separation to front binding at bottom of board with some loss to interior paper covering binding

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