Weston Edith (3 results)

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. n.d. [1930s]. 72pp, photo, adverts, card covers sl darkened.

Condition: Good. Wharton, Edith. The house of mirth / with an introduction by Michael Millgate. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd., 1979. First Penguin Classics edition. Paperback, Good. Illustrated card covers (from a painting by Frank Weston Benson), with some shelfwear, age-toning and slight creasing, the spine a little sunned. Binding strong. 349pp. Page edges lightly tanned, contents clean and bright. The House of Mirth is a tragedy about Lily Bart, a well-born but penniless young woman belonging to New York City's high society of the 1890s. It came out October 14, 1905. The story traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a lonely existence on the margins of society as she fails to marry a man of wealth and status to secure her a place in affluent society. Wharton uses Lily as an attack on "an irresponsible, grasping and morally corrupt upper class." RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Frank Weston Benson (illustrator).…

Hardback. Volume I spine and corners sl bmpd boards weak contents clean Volume II spine bumped bottom corners bent both with gilt tooling to front board. book.