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THE DECORATION OF HOUSES

THE DECORATION OF HOUSES by Wharton, Edith and Codman, Ogden Jr.

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Title
THE DECORATION OF HOUSES
Author
Wharton, Edith and Codman, Ogden Jr.
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Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description
1897. [her first book] New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Original marbled (white, dark pink, light greyish-olive, dark greenish-blue) paper-covered boards and spine, with printed spine label. First (and only) Edition, first printing -- of Edith Wharton's first book (other than her "Verses" printed almost twenty years earlier when she was 16). Wharton, at the time [1897], was a 30-something Manhattan society matron with a keen interest in architecture and interior design, rather than the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist she would become. Codman was a blue-blooded architect, one year her junior, with whom Wharton and her husband were remodeling a summer place in Newport, Rhode Island. Poor taste and vulgarity of all kinds reigned in that New England resort town, thanks to an influx of Vanderbilts and other newly moneyed clans anxious to put their lucre to conspicuous use, so much so that Wharton and Codman decided to write a book about how to build and decorate houses with nobility, grace, and timelessness [Owens]. This is a sizeable volume, standing over nine inches tall; included are numerous photographic plates of indoor architecture and decoration from around the world. This copy is the usual American issue; some of the copies were equipped with an 1898-dated London title page. The number of copies printed is not known, but in 1901, 1,416 American copies had been sold and an additional 400 had been sold to the UK publisher. This copy's binding is Garrison's "Binding B" (no priority), which has these pastel shades of marbling on both covers and on the spine. Condition is very good-plus (pink faded on the spine, minor rubbing at the edges); tough to find much better. Garrison A2.1.a.

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