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Willa Cather. Shadows on the Rock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931....
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Description
Signed by Willa Cather
Willa Cather. Shadows on the Rock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.First edition, first printing, limited issue. Limited to 619 numbered copies (of which 607 are for sale) printed on Croxley Hand Made Paper, signed by Willa Cather (this copy being Number 395). Octavo (9.125 x 6 inches; 232 x 154 mm.). [8], 280, [1, blank], [1, colophon] pages. "Set up, electrotyped, printed and bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass. Paper made by John Dickinson & Co. Ltd., of London" (Colophon).
Publisher's blue fine linen marbled curl cloth over boards. Reddish brown leather spine label ruled and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt on the rough, others uncut. A fine copy. In the original heavy cream laid paper dust jacket ruled and lettered in black on spine. Ink limitation number at foot of jacket spine. The jacket is slightly browned with the spine darkened, a few chips and tears repaired on the verso with cellophane tape, two-inch piece torn from lower spine and reattached with tape on the verso, additional tape repairs to rear flap folds. Housed in the publisher's red paper over board slipcase with matching limitation number in ink at foot of spine. The slipcase is faded and worn, with a few small splits.
"Set in Quebec in 1697, this small, serene novel about a 12-year-old girl who keeps house for her father, a widowed apothecary, describes a year in the life of Cecile and Euclide Auclair, whose orderly and loving household is protected from the Canadian wilderness by the civic and religious institutions of Kebec, the 'Rock.' In 1931, when as many as five million American workers were jobless and the industrializing world seemed about to collapse, the relatively stable traditional community depicted in this beautifully written novel provided solace to its readers. It was the first of Willa Cather's many books to become a best-seller" (The New York Public Library's Books of the Century, p. 197).
Crane A17.a.i.
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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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