Ethan Frome by Wharton Edith, Signed (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition signed by Henry Varnum Poor on colophon page. Bound in publisher's blue cloth. Gilt lettered and decorated. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Slip case not included. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. ix, 145 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. The Limited Editions Club (LEC) is an important part of the rare book business and the books are adored by collectors. From 1929 to 1985, the Limited Editions Club published 548 titles. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Limited Edition. 180p octavo Limited edition with a ne introduction, one of 2000 copies. About fine in quarter cloth with a touch of wear, tiny bookstore ticket on first page and tissue guard present but detached in matching near fine slipcase with some light wear at the edges, but lacking the dust jacket. Author Robert Grant's copy with his book plates on front paste down. Grant was a long time friend of Wharton and was an author and judge, who famously was tasked with reviewing the Sacco and Vanzetti trial prior to their executions. Laid in is a two page autograph letter Signed by Wharton to Grant written on a single sheet of her blue Pavillon Colombe letterhead and dated July 12th in either 1921 or 1922. The warm and engaging letter welcomes Grant and his wife to France and lays out her busy plans fo the summer, which include visits from her neice and sister in laws, motor-trips, and visits to England, but also her strong desire for a visit from the pair.: It would be too disappointing not to see you, & somewhere we must meet. Owing to these family visits, & other already arranged, my two tiny spare rooms will be full the greater part of the summer, but if they are free when you pass through, I hope so much that you & our friend will come out for a night at least." She also briefly comments in a postcript on the success of her Pulitzer Prize winning novel: Is the Age of Innocence to be staged??? If I waited for that, I doubt if I sh[oul]d ever see my native land again. What a yarn!" A wonderful associaten copy.

POOR, Henry Varnum (illustrator). WHARTON, Edith. Ethan Frome. With Water-Colour Drawings by Henry Varnum Poor and an Introduction by Clifton Fadiman. 4to. Orig. cloth. [Portland, Maine]: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1939. Limited to 1,500 copies printed by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press and signed by the illustrator. A fine copy in a worn slipcase.

[Portland, OR]: Limited Editions Club, 1939. 4to, x, 145 pp. Illustrated. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. A fine copy with just a hint of age-toning to the uncut edges, in the original, lightly worn card slipcase. § Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, Henry Varnum Poor, whose water-color drawings are reproduced in very effective two-tone. Introduction by Clifton Fadiman. Printed by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland.