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[Fiction] A Son at the Front

Wharton, Edith

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition, First Printing.

Small Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 193 x 126 mm), 426 pages, in red cloth, titles in gilt to spine and upper board, with dust jacket.

Edith Wharton's novel of World War I and its devastating effects on a painter whose son is called up for duty in the French army.

CONDITION: Near Fine, with spine titles faded, in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with some moderate soiling to the panels, a few nicks to the spine and flap folds, a couple of closed tears to the lower panel, and a black mark to the front flap. Item #1685

Price: $800.00