Wharton, Edith — The Spark (the Sixties)

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1924. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards, off-white title block on front cover with goldish lettering and design, off-white title block on spine, bw illustrated end pages designed by E.C. Caswell. 108 (1) pages. No illustrations. "A novel New York society in the 1860's. It focuses on Hayley Delane, who was a schoolboy when the Civil War started. He ran off to join the war and later married Leila Gracy, daughter of old Bill Gracy, a drinker and gambler of ill repute. The narrator observes that Hayley Delane seems to belong to a different age, trying to guess whether he would fit in better as a Roman or a Greek or some other ancient European. Leila alternates between being devoted to Hayley and devoted to affairs with other men."-publisher description. VG (light wear to boards, staining and peeling to title block on spine, corners bumped, age toning to pages but text is otherwise very clean and clear.) .