New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1902.. First edition, first printing, with D.B. Updike slug on verso of the title-page.. publisher's wine cloth in publisher's white cardboard slipcase with printed paper label.. A very good set with some slight darkening to cloth, but with good gold on the spines. The rare publisher's slipcase is cracked at some of the joints, and has some small areas of abrasion to the label, but is very presentable.. 8vo,.

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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: Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10548
Title: The Valley of Decision.
Author: WHARTON, Edith
Format/Binding: Publisher's wine cloth in publisher's white cardboard slipcase with printed paper label.
Book Condition: Used - A very good set with some slight darkening to cloth, but with good gold on the spines. The rare publisher's slipcase is crac
Edition: First edition, first printing, with D.B. Updike slug on verso of
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: 1902.
Pages: 2 vols.
Size: 8vo,

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