Ethan Frome

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First edition, first issue, with unbroken type on page 135; in this copy, the top edges are not gilt. 195, [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red gilt-lettered red cloth. Bookplate. Very good. Bookplate of Frederick and Jane Hodgdon. First edition, first issue, with unbroken type on page 135; in this copy, the top edges are not gilt. 195, [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Merle Johnson states that “there is no difference of opinion concerning the point of the broken type on p. 135 [as representing a later issue], but occasionally a copy turns up which seem to be in every way a first issue of the first edition except that it lacks the gilt top…” (Davis). Davis, p. 14