LOT #92038 |
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Lot of Eight Books By or About Willa Cather,... (Total: 8 Items)
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Description
Lot of Eight Books By or About Willa Cather, including: Sapphira and the Slave Girl. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. Octavo. 295 pages. Original green cloth with titles printed on paper labels on the front board and spine. Hinges broken and binding loose otherwise a good reading copy in dust jacket. [And:] Willa Cather in Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journey. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First edition. Octavo. 178 pages. Original gray cloth with titles and decoration in blue on the front board and spine. Very good in a price-clipped jacket. [And:] The Old Beauty and Others. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First edition. Octavo. 166 pages. Original brown cloth with titles and decoration in black on the front board and spine. Light shelf wear and light fading to boards else a sound copy in very good condition. [And:] Willa Cather on Writing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Second printing. Octavo. 126 pages. Original teal cloth with titles and decoration stamped in black on the front board and spine. Light shelf wear and sound contents, in a worn price-clipped dust jacket. Very good. [And:] E. K. Brown and Leon Edel. Willa Cather: A Critical Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Octavo. 351 pages. Original green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spine and front board. [And:] Edith Lewis. Willa Cather Living. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Octavo. 197 pages. Decorated paper over boards with a green cloth backstrip and titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Very good. [And:] Mildred R. Bennett. The World of Willa Cather. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1951. Third printing. Original maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spine and front board. In a slightly worn dust jacket. Very good. [And:] John H. Randall III. The Landscape and the Looking Glass: Willa Cather's Search for Value. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. First edition. Octavo. 425 pages. Original gray cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Very good, in dust jacket.Auction Info
2008 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #684 (go to Auction Home page)
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October, 2008
16th-18th
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