OBSCURE DESTINIES; Three New Stories of the West

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo, light green cloth with blue labels on spine & front cover, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (price-clipped in keeping with All publisher's copies due to a late price change), light yellow top stain to upper page edges by publisher for soil protection, [viii] + 229-[230] pages + [2] A Note on the Type. Willa Cather (1873 - 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. The three stories in this collection OBSCURE DESTINIES are: "Neigbour Rosicky," "Old Mrs. Harris," and "Two Friends." Each story deals with the death of a central character and asks how the ordinary lives of these characters can be valued and how "beauty was found or created in seemingly ordinary circumstances."--Wikipedia SUPERIOR COPYL Clean, solid, bright and tight copy: the green cloth has faded to greenish-yellow in places, as is common. Remarkably bright and clean dust jacket with a few minute nicks along its extremities. The jacket is price-clipped in keeping with late pricing changes by the publisher. Ad for Shadows on the Rock on the rear panel of the jacket lists that book at $2.50.