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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 180p octavo Limited edition with a ne introduction, one of 2000 copies. About fine in quarter cloth with a touch of wear, tiny bookstore ticket on first page and tissue guard present but detached in matching near fine slipcase with some light wear at the edges, but lacking the dust jacket. Author Robert Grant's copy with his book plates on front paste down. Grant was a long time friend of Wharton and was an author and judge, who famously was tasked with reviewing the Sacco and Vanzetti trial prior to their executions. Laid in is a two page autograph letter Signed by Wharton to Grant written on a single sheet of her blue Pavillon Colombe letterhead and dated July 12th in either 1921 or 1922. The warm and engaging letter welcomes Grant and his wife to France and lays out her busy plans fo the summer, which include visits from her neice and sister in laws, motor-trips, and visits to England, but also…

Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film in 1993. The story is a frame narrative concerning an unnamed narrator who tells the story based on an account from observations at Frome's house when he had to stay there during a winter storm. It is a classic of American literature, depicting the struggle between individual desire and social expectations.