US Stamp #1832 - 1980 15¢ Edith Wharton, Literary Arts,  EzGrade™ VG/F (Very Good/Fine), MNH (Mint Never Hinged), OG (Original Gum)

EzGrade™ VG/F (Very Good/Fine), MNH (Mint Never Hinged), New Condition. This comes with a Certificate of Measurement & Grading from EzGrade.™ View Photo for details on stamps. I have listed photos of the exact stamps you should receive, both Front and Back.

  • Series: Edith Wharton Series
  • Face value:  15 ¢ - United States cent
  • First Day of Issue: September 5, 1980
  • First Day City: New Haven, Connecticut
  • Format: Stamp 
  • Size: 25 x 40 mm
  • Emission: Commemorative
  • Watermark: No Watermark
  • Designer: Bradbury Thompson
  • Engraver: J. L. Goodbody, T. Hipschen
  • Print Run: 163,310,000
  • Printed by: Bureau of Engraving & Printing
  • Printing Method: Engraved
  • Perforations: line 10¾ x 11¼
  • Paper: Normal
  • Gum: Moisture Activated
  • Color: Purple

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), Novelist

This stamp honors writer Edith Wharton, who received a Pulitzer Prize for her book, "The Age of Innocence". Wharton was the second person to be honored in the Literary Arts Series.

Edith Newbold Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.