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The Custom of the Countryby Wharton, EdithFirst Edition
Book desription: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Red cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, gilt-stamped ruled box on front with title lettering within, author's name below, blind-stamped ruled border near edge of front cover, vi, 594pp. Book is square, with reasonably firm binding, spine slightly faded with ends & corners bumped & lightly rubbed, edges faded, gift note of "Christmas 1913" inked on front pastedown, text is quite bright & clean. "A novel that takes place in the familiar Wharton territories of the New York and Paris high societies. It charts the rise of Undine Spragg, the daughter of nouveau-riche parents who travel from their home in Apex, Kansas to New York City in the hopes of marrying Undine into one of the families of the American aristocracy. This is not a book about love. It is a scathing examination of the burgeoning nouveau-riche and their rise to dominance in the New York society . . .". First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - 7-1/2" x 5". Literary Fiction.
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