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Wharton Estate Pays $2.6 Million for Library

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20051216
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The personal library of Edith Wharton, the aristocratic novelist and confidante of Henry James, has been purchased from a British bookseller by her estate for $2.6 million.

The 2,600-volume library includes a first edition of "Alice in Wonderland" with pages worn by Wharton's fingers as a child, and works with personal inscriptions from James and Theodore Roosevelt.

"Nothing informs us more of the extraordinary genius of this woman than these books," said Stephanie Copeland, director of the Mount, Wharton's estate and 48-acre gardens in Lenox. "What they will bring to Wharton scholarship is ...

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