WHARTON, Edith (1862-1937). Twelve Poems. London: Published by the Medici Society, 1926. 8°. Half title, printed in Riccardi fount of handmade paper. Original cloth-backed paper boards, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (a little faded). NUMBER 5 OF 130 COPIES. One of The Riccardi Press Books. PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed "For John from EW, Christmas 1926."
WHARTON, Edith (1862-1937). Twelve Poems. London: Published by the Medici Society, 1926. 8°. Half title, printed in Riccardi fount of handmade paper. Original cloth-backed paper boards, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (a little faded). NUMBER 5 OF 130 COPIES. One of The Riccardi Press Books. PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed "For John from EW, Christmas 1926." With 35 other books by Edith Wharton including 16 PRESENTATION COPIES TO HER CLOSE FRIEND JOHN HUGH-SMITH, namely: The Greater Inclination (New York, 1899, also inscribed to her mother), The Fruit of the Tree (London, 1907), The Hermit and the Wild Woman (London, 1908), Artemis to Actaeon (New York, 1909), Summer (New York, 1917), French Ways and their Meaning (London, 1919), The Age of Innocence (New York, 1920, inscribed, "A.J.H.S. from EW, Nov 5, 1920"), The Glimpses of the Moon (New York, 1922), The Writing of Fiction (New York, 1925), The Mother's Recompense (New York, 1925), Here and Beyond (New York, 1926), Twilight Sleep (New York, 1927), The Children (New York, 1928), Hudson River Bracketed (New York, 1929, DEDICATION COPY TO JOHN HUGH-SMITH), Certain People (New York, 1930) and The Gods Arrive (New York, 1932), all FIRST EDITIONS in original cloth without dust-jackets. Provenance : Arnold John Hugh-Smith and by direct descent. Percy Lubbock introduced the banker John Hugh-Smith, a former Cambridge class-mate, to Edith Wharton in 1908 and thereby initiated a flirtatious relationship between the two which developed into a deep and lasting friendship during which they were avid correspondents. Lubbock recalled, "[Hugh-Smith] was the sort of young Englishman she needed, a most unusual sort, for the ideas that thronged in his brain weren't imprisoned there, they streamed out in lively order; and he knew so many books, and so much life as well, that in a very short time they were talking at each other as though they couldn't stop." (36)
WHARTON, Edith (1862-1937). Twelve Poems. London: Published by the Medici Society, 1926. 8°. Half title, printed in Riccardi fount of handmade paper. Original cloth-backed paper boards, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (a little faded). NUMBER 5 OF 130 COPIES. One of The Riccardi Press Books. PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed "For John from EW, Christmas 1926."
WHARTON, Edith (1862-1937). Twelve Poems. London: Published by the Medici Society, 1926. 8°. Half title, printed in Riccardi fount of handmade paper. Original cloth-backed paper boards, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (a little faded). NUMBER 5 OF 130 COPIES. One of The Riccardi Press Books. PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed "For John from EW, Christmas 1926." With 35 other books by Edith Wharton including 16 PRESENTATION COPIES TO HER CLOSE FRIEND JOHN HUGH-SMITH, namely: The Greater Inclination (New York, 1899, also inscribed to her mother), The Fruit of the Tree (London, 1907), The Hermit and the Wild Woman (London, 1908), Artemis to Actaeon (New York, 1909), Summer (New York, 1917), French Ways and their Meaning (London, 1919), The Age of Innocence (New York, 1920, inscribed, "A.J.H.S. from EW, Nov 5, 1920"), The Glimpses of the Moon (New York, 1922), The Writing of Fiction (New York, 1925), The Mother's Recompense (New York, 1925), Here and Beyond (New York, 1926), Twilight Sleep (New York, 1927), The Children (New York, 1928), Hudson River Bracketed (New York, 1929, DEDICATION COPY TO JOHN HUGH-SMITH), Certain People (New York, 1930) and The Gods Arrive (New York, 1932), all FIRST EDITIONS in original cloth without dust-jackets. Provenance : Arnold John Hugh-Smith and by direct descent. Percy Lubbock introduced the banker John Hugh-Smith, a former Cambridge class-mate, to Edith Wharton in 1908 and thereby initiated a flirtatious relationship between the two which developed into a deep and lasting friendship during which they were avid correspondents. Lubbock recalled, "[Hugh-Smith] was the sort of young Englishman she needed, a most unusual sort, for the ideas that thronged in his brain weren't imprisoned there, they streamed out in lively order; and he knew so many books, and so much life as well, that in a very short time they were talking at each other as though they couldn't stop." (36)
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