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WHARTON, EDITH. 1862-1937. Twelve Poems. London: The Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, 1926. image 1
WHARTON, EDITH. 1862-1937. Twelve Poems. London: The Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, 1926. image 2
WHARTON, EDITH. 1862-1937. Twelve Poems. London: The Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, 1926. image 3
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WHARTON, EDITH. 1862-1937.
Twelve Poems. London: The Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, 1926.

22 June 2023, 12:00 EDT
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WHARTON, EDITH. 1862-1937.

Twelve Poems. London: The Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, 1926.
Tall 8vo (240 x 165 mm). Original blue cloth-backed boards, cover and spine titled in gilt, printed dust jacket. Offsetting and foxing to endpapers, browning to jacket spine and panel edges, light shelfwear.
Provenance: From the distinguished collection of Delmer and Mary Lou Daves.

LIMITED SIGNED EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST JACKET, no. 104 of 130 copies signed by Wharton and printed on handmade paper. One of Wharton's scarcest titles and the only to be issued in a signed limited edition. Garrison A40 (wrongly claiming the signature is a stamped facsimile).

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American actress Mary Lou Daves began her career in Hollywood as Mary Lou Lender in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Her work on the silver screen included films such as "The Stratton Story," "Back Street," "No Man of Her Own" and "State Fair" as well as notable television appearances on "The Bob Cummings Show," "Playhouse 90," and "Dragnet." Though it was her time on the 1938 Harold Lloyd comedy "Professor Beware" where she met and subsequently married the budding film director, Delmer Daves.

As both writer and director, Daves would go on to contribute his talents to movies such as "Destination Tokyo," a wartime submarine drama starring Cary Grant and John Garfield, "Dark Passage," a melodrama starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in 1947, and "Broken Arrow," starring James Stewart in 1950. The Hollywood couple were married for 39 years until the latter's death in 1977.

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