The Valley of Decision, The Fruit of the Tree, The Custom of the Country, Summer, Mother’s Recompense, Twilight Sleep, The Children, Xingu, Here and Beyond.

WHARTON, Edith.

Item Number: 1859

Octavo, 12 volumes. Three quarters leather, finely bound, gilt tooling to the spine, topstain gilt. Includes Edith Wharton’s, Ethan Frome (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912), The Valley of Decision [2 volumes] ( New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902. First edition. Published February 1902.), The Fruit of the Tree (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907. First edition with Scribner device on the copyright page), The Custom of the Country (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913. First Edition with Scribner seal and dated “published October,1913”), Summer (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1917) , The Marne (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1918), Mother’s Recompence (New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1925), Twilight Sleep (New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1927), The Children (New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1928), Xingu (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916. First edition with “Published October, 1916” and Scribner device on copyright page), Here and Beyond (New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1926).

Edith Wharton won the 1921 Pulitzer for The Age of Innocence, making her the first woman to win the award. Born Edith Newbold Jones, into privileged New York society, the saying "keeping up with the Joneses" is said to refer to her father’s family. Her insight into society and psychology made for many intriguing short stories and novels. "Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?" (E. M. Forster).