A Massachusetts antiquarian bookseller is offering for sale a first edition of Ethan Frome (1911), with what book collectors call major 'association' value.
Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, a novel about suffocating social mores set in New York City during the Gilded Age, observes its centennial this year.
For many of us, the past three months of lockdown has meant extra time for reading. With no social or cultural events to attend, the books have beckoned.
New York—The top lots at Swann Galleries’ November 20 auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature were first editions of Pulitzer price winners—and two of them set auction records.