Inscribed by Wharton to her cousin
The Poetical Works.
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1893.
Price: $5,500.00
About the item
"Reprinted from the Revised American edition, Including Recent Poems" 630 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by Wharton to her cousin. Original gilt-lettered red morocco, a.e.g., remnant of spine laid-in, front board and flyleaf detached, worn and rubbed.
Item #237874
INSCRIBED by Edith Wharton on the half title, with a short poem incorporating Gertrude's farewell to Ophelia. It reads in full:
"Sweets to the sweet & luck to the fair / are applicable both, - / to the girls with the ondule hair, / from her loving cousin / Edith Wharton / July 3rd 1894"
Longfellow was an early admirer of Wharton; he arranged to have one of her adolescent poems published in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
