Lot 2251 , Wharton, Edith - Old New York ... Decorations by E.C. Caswell. First Edition, 4 vols. pictorial e/ps. to each volume; original roy. blue cloth with pictorial label on upper boards and printed label on spines, coloured an

° Wharton, Edith - Old New York ... Decorations by E.C. Caswell. First Edition, 4 vols. pictorial e/ps. to each volume; original roy. blue cloth with pictorial label on upper boards and printed label on spines, coloured and floral patterned d/wrappers with a pictorial title on upper wrapper of each, and contained in the original slipcase, sm.cr.8vo. London and New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1924. Note: Four separate stories with the metropolis as a background, comprises - False Dawn (the 'Forties); The Old Maid (the 'Fifties); The Spark (the 'Sixties); New Year's Day (the 'Seventies)
£200-300

Condition:
V. good set generally; slip case damaged (missing its back), the coloured decoration matching the d/wrappers - which have some fraying spine heads / tails with sl. loss (and also elsewhere on spine one place (New Year's Day) and two places (Old Maid) (4), 143; (4), 191: (4), 109 and (4), 160pp. (incl. half titles)

Sold for £240