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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair/No jacket. 185 pages. Green paper covered boards with gilt titles and decorations on front cover and spine, gilt top edge, rough cut leading edge. Some spotting of cover with scuffs and scratches, edge wear, corners and spine ends bumped, gilt bright, foxing of end papers, former owner's name "Ella Kerr Hicks" with street address on front free end paper, interior pages bright, some miscut, with stain at top center of most pages. Fine reading copy.

1903. By Hermann Sudermann. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. Original dark grey-green paper-covered boards decorated in gilt. First (and only) Edition in English, first (American) issue but with title page dated 1903 rather than 1902. Wharton agreed to translate this play only reluctantly, perhaps drawn by a topic she would later express in her own novels: the plight of a woman who is unhappy in her marriage due to her love for another man. In her Translator's Note, she indicates that she had to exercise some creativity in her task, because "to English and American spectators the long German speeches are a severe strain on the attention"; this is perhaps why Wharton's bibliographer Garrison lists this play as one of Edith Wharton's works -- and in fact, she is sometimes referred to as the co-author of the play. Garrison lists a first Scribner printing published in October-November 1902 (and so dated) -- followed in April 1903 by more copies of this printing issued as the first British… Read More