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First edition, first issue, with unbroken type on page 135; in this copy, the top edges are not gilt. 195, [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Merle Johnson states that "there is no difference of opinion concerning the point of the broken type on p. 135 [as representing a later issue], but occasionally a copy turns up which seem to be in every way a first issue of the first edition except that it lacks the gilt top�" (Davis). Davis, p. 14 Original red gilt-lettered red cloth. Bookplate. Very good. Bookplate of Frederick and Jane Hodgdon First edition, first issue, with unbroken type on page 135; in this copy, the top edges are not gilt.

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.