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Alexander's Bridge
by Cather, Willa
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No DJ Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0684819074
- ISBN 13
- 9780684819075
- Seller
-
Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1997, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ Issued. Small quarto, hardcover, 3/4 bound in black cloth, grey boards, with paste on; gilt lettering. No dj as issued. Begins with 16 pp. b/w plates of photographs depicting the era of this novel, then 109 pp. Near Fine. Originally published in 1912, this is Cather's first novel set in upper middle class Boston & London.
Synopsis
Willa Cather was born near Winchester, Virginia, in 1873. When she was ten years old, her family moved to the prairies of Nebraska, later the setting for a number of her novels. At the age of twenty-one, she graduated from the University of Nebraska, and she spent the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching high school in Pittsburgh. In 1903, her first book, April Twilights, a collection of poems, was published, and two years later The Troll Garden, a collection of stories, appeared in print. After the publication of her first novel, Alexander’s Bridge, in 1912, Cather devoted herself full time to writing, and over the years she completed eleven more novels (including O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, The Professor’s House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop ), four collections of short stories, and two volumes of essays. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours in 1923. She died in 1947.
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29898
- Title
- Alexander's Bridge
- Author
- Cather, Willa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0684819074
- ISBN 13
- 9780684819075
- Publisher
- NY: Simon and Schuster, 1997
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
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bookwitch
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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