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Hardcover, FIRST EDITION, with ( 1 ) on last page of text. Foxing to pages, endpapers, - NO marks or writing or book plates inside. A very nice copy of an early Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction .

The Age of Innocence, written by Edith Wharton, is a novel that focuses on an upper-class couple's impending marriage and the introduction of a controversial cousin in 1870s New York. It explores the social intricacies and rituals of the high society of the time, and it provides a critical view of the social strictures that dictate behavior, particularly regarding marriage and loyalty.