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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Freed from the dependency upon the timetables and routes of the railway, the early years of the 20th century were a golden age for motorists. This book describes three of Wharton's journeys in this era, travelling in a chauffeur-driven Panhard with servants and luggage sent on ahead. The journeys are: a three-week run from Boulogne to Clermont-Ferrand to Paris in May 1906; a circuit of the South-West, the Pyrenees and the Rhone Valley in March-April 1907, accompanied by Henry James; and a short weekend in Picardy in 1907. Wharton wrote of her flights for the Atlantic Monthly and collected them into the present volume, which was first publ.…

One of 1500 copies printed for members of the Limited Editions Club and signed by the illustrator, of which this is no.299. Quarto (28.5cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; fore- and lower-edge untrimmed; glassine dustjacket; 145pp; water-colour illustrations to title page and throughout. Very light sunning to spine ends, with off-setting to pastedowns and endpapers, else Near Fine. Glassine dustwrapper present, with crease to rear flap fold, and tiny tears and chips to extremities; Very Good+. In publisher's marbled cardboard slipcase, with titling stamped in gilt on spine, and light tanning, cracks, and rubbing; Good. First published in 1911, this edition includes special contents with an updated copyright date (1939). Wharton's novel explores the love triangle between a sick wife, her husband, and her cousin through an unnamed narrator. Its film adaptation (1993), directed by John Madden, starred Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette, Joan Allen, and Tate Donovan. [84823]. Signed.…