The Valley of Decision [2 volumes]
by Edith Wharton
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- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Two volumes in maroon cloth, pages untrimmed, presumed 1st ed., 2nd printing (Manhattan Press on copyright page.) Both volumes in good condition, slightly cocked, some rubbing to extremities, covers lightly mottled, front hinge of vol. 2 weak. No marks inside either volume, pages supple and bright.
Synopsis
Life at Pontesordo was in truth not very pleasant for an ardent and sensitive little boy of nine, whose remote connection with the reigning line of Pianura did not preserve him from wearing torn clothes and eating black bread and beans out of an earthen bowl on the kitchen doorstep."Go ask your mother for new clothes!" Filomena would snap at him, when his toes came through his shoes and the rents in his jacket-sleeves had spread beyond darning. "These you are wearing are my Giannozzo's, as you well know, and every rag on your back is mine, if there were any law for poor folk, for not a copper of pay for your keep or a stitch of clothing for your body have we had these two years come Assumption--. What's that? You can't ask your mother, you say, because she never comes here? True enough--fine ladies let their brats live in cow-dung, but they must have Indian carpets under their own feet. Well, ask the abate, then--he has lace ruffles to his coat and a naked woman painted on his snuff box--What? He only holds his hands up when you ask? Well, then, go ask your friends on the chapel-walls--maybe they'll give you a pair of shoes--though Saint Francis, for that matter, was the father of the discalced, and would doubtless tell you to go without!" And she would add with a coarse laugh: "Don't you know that the discalced are shod with gold?"It was after such a scene that the beggar-noble, as they called him at Pontesordo, would steal away to the chapel and, seating himself on an upturned basket or a heap of pumpkins, gaze long into the face of the mournful saint.
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- Bookseller
- Givens Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12208
- Title
- The Valley of Decision [2 volumes]
- Author
- Edith Wharton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- novel, classic, fiction, first edition, literature, 1902, early 20th century
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Fiction; 19th and Early 20th Century;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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