VIII, 533 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering and top edge gilt. Some wear at covers and spine, some minor spots on front and back cover. Front hinge with small fissure, a bit loose verso frontispiece. Minor browning. Good copy.
From the library of Betty and Edwin Welte, owner of M. Welte & Sons, Freiburg / New York and inventor of the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano. Betty Welte was the sister of Barney Dreyfuss, famous baseball team owner, both relatives of the I.W. Bernheim family in Louisville, KY.
Scarce first edition of Edith Wharton's first important work of fiction which became a resoundingly success. With comment "2mal gelesen" (read twice) by Edwin Welte.
