The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

The Valley of Decision
by Edith Wharton

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
First edition, second? printing, 1902 (Manhattan Press noted on copyright page)

In two volumes. Her first published novel.

Condition: Hardcovers; cover boards have minor scuffing, bumping to corners. Upper page edges gilt. The interior of Volume 1 has several pages with faint smudges or discolored spots, otherwise unmarked, Volume 2 has fewer pages with noticeable smudges. Volume 1 has document repair tape in the gutter of the front endpapers: there appears to have been a neat cut along most of the inside edge of the ffep. Bindings are secure but are a little strained in a few places in both volumes.

wiki: "Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray realistically the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Among her other well known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories."