The Cruise of the Vanadis [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Wharton, Edith

Edité par Rizzoli, New York, 2003

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As new condition polished navy blue cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in a near fine condition color photographic dust jacket. The rear upper left jacket corner contains some crinkling (see photographs), otherwise the jacket is in as new condition. Includes Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; A Note About the Photographs; and Edith Wharton Restoration Note. Illustrated with color photographs, color frontispiece, and map illustrated front and rear endpapers. Signed and inscribed by the photograher, Jonas Dovydenas, with thin black ink at the bottom of the 4th front color photographic endpaper. "The newly discovered first travel memoir of one of America's greatest novelists. In the winter of 1888, Edith Wharton, twenty-six years old and married three years, confided in a Newport friend and cousin-in-law, James Van Alen, that there was nothing she wanted more in the world than to take a cruise in the Mediterranean. Van Alen arranged for the charter of a yacht called the Vanadis, and Edith and her husband Teddy set off on the trip she would call "a taste of heaven." The Cruise of the Vanadis is Wharton's elegant record of that journey. As sophisticated and erudite as any ofWharton's novels, the diary lay undiscovered until 1991 when scholar Claudine Lesage discovered in on a dusty library shelf in France. This beautiful illustrated edition marks the diary's first publication in the United States and provides a rare glimpse into the early career of one of America's most important writers and most enthusiastic travelers. Annotated with timeless photographs by distinguished photographer Jonas Dovydenas, who faithfully retraced Wharton's route, and with a new foreword by renowned novelist and Gilded Age scholar Louis Auchincloss, this book is an invaluable addition to the Wharton canon." - from the inner front jacket flap. ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Jonas Dovydenas' photographs have appeared in American Photographer, National Geographic Adventure, Soldier of Fortune, Time and others. His work can be seen in the collections at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago, International Center for Photography, The Library of Congress, and The Minneapolis Institute of Art. He has been a Trustee of Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc. for many years. N° de réf. du vendeur 002019

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Titre : The Cruise of the Vanadis [SIGNED FIRST ...

Éditeur : Rizzoli, New York

Date d'édition : 2003

Reliure : Hardcover

Illustrateur : Dovydenas, Jonas (photography)

Etat : As New

Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine

Signé : Signed by Author(s)

Edition : 1st Edition