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Sapphira and the Slave Girl
by Willa Cather
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). First edition, signed by Cather. Signed edition of 520 copies [this copy is unnumbered]. Printed on Rives Liampre all-rag paper. Gilt stamped Dark green cloth spine with green papered boards. Top edge gilt. Boards are toned along top and fore-edges; small bit of exposure of corner tips. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; light pencil erasure in upper corner of ffep. Pages are clean and crisp. Sewn-in ribbon. viii, 295, [1] pages. 9.2 x 6.25 inches. In a new removable archival sleeve. Cather's last novel.
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
- Boyd Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012948
- Title
- Sapphira and the Slave Girl
- Author
- Willa Cather
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, novel,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Boyd Used & Rare Books
Biblio member since 2013
Portland, Oregon
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- Gilt
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Bookplate
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