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ORIGINAL GILT STAMPED RED CLOTH; NO BOOKPLATES OR SIGNATURES. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (WITH TOP EDGE GILT AND UNBATTERED TYPED ON PAGE 135) VERY GOOD.

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.