Anne Douglas Sedgwick — Tante

New York, The Century Co. 1912. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this 1912 best-selling novel exploring the strained relationship between a brilliant pianist and her prodigy. The first edition of this work.In the publisher's original cloth binding.Sedgwick's best-selling novel and one of the best-selling works of the year of its publishing, Tante follows an adored pianist Madame Okraska and her 'adopted daughter' Karen.The relationship becomes destructive when Karen falls for an attorney named Gregory.This novel, like the majority of Sedgwick's writings, explores the contrasts between American and European values. This stems from the author's origins as an American-born, British writer. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and bumping to the extremities, heaviest to the head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the odd spot. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the rear endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .