Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) was an eminent American author. She spent her childhood in Red Cloud, Nebraska, the same town that has been made famous by her writing. She insisted on attending college, so her family borrowed money so she could enroll at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While there, she became a regular contributor to the Nebraska State Journal. She then moved to Pittsburgh, where she taught high school English and worked for Home Monthly, and eventually got a job offer from McClure's Magazine in New ...
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Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) was an eminent American author. She spent her childhood in Red Cloud, Nebraska, the same town that has been made famous by her writing. She insisted on attending college, so her family borrowed money so she could enroll at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While there, she became a regular contributor to the Nebraska State Journal. She then moved to Pittsburgh, where she taught high school English and worked for Home Monthly, and eventually got a job offer from McClure's Magazine in New York City. Later, she became the managing editor in 1908. The latter publication serialized her first novel, Alexander's Bridge (1912), which was heavily influenced by Henry James. For her novels she returned to the prairie for inspiration, and these works became popular and critical successes. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours (1922). Her other works include: O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Antonia (1918) and A Lost Lady (1923).
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very Good. First British edition. 66 pp. Original blue cloth with navy lettering. Very Good, light dampstaining near head to cloth, both paste downs and front free endpaper, very light foxing to prelims. The author's first book, a collection of poems.
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Very Good. 1923 Knopf signed limited edition (#38 of 450) tight and unmarked Paper spine over floral patterned boards. Tight and unmarked. a71 Please email for photos.
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Very Good. First edition of Willa Cather's first book of poetry and her first published book. Bound in original drab grey boards with paper title label to upper board and spine. Very Good with chipping to spine title label and stain to bottom corner of rear board. Abrasion or effaced name to front pastedown, owner name to front free endpaper. A nice copy of this fragile production.
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Evidence of an erased pencil inscription; tiny chip to spine label; else a fresh, unworn copy. 52 pp. 12mo, Author's first book. Witter Bynner's copy, with his bookplate on pastedown.
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Near Fine. First edition of Willa Cather's first book of poetry and her first published book. Signed by Cather in inscribed "Twenty years later! " on the front free endpaper. Bound in original drab grey boards with paper title label to upper board and spine. Near Fine with light toning to covers, subtle glue repair to crown, toning to spine and slight chipping to title label there. Still a very bright example of this otherwise fragile production, signed by the author.
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Very Good. First edition. Papercovered boards with paper labels on the front board and the spine, issued without dustwrapper. A tiny nick at the crown, spine label a bit darkened, and a small split at the joint, still an at least very good copy. Cather's first book, a vanity press collection of poetry. Cather reportedly destroyed the remainder of the edition in 1908. This copy Inscribed by Cather at a later date: "For Edwin Winter, In return for a beautiful letter he once wrote me about 'My Antonia'. Willa Sibert Cather. Five Bank Street. March 15, 1920." Also laid in is a two-page Autograph Note Signed "Willa Cather, " written in pencil, that addresses her attempts to visit her doctor, her inability to make engagements at present, and says in part: "I came home with gout, but I admit it only to old friends. Anyhow, I'm glad I had the Wine in Paris and the gout in New York! " The note is folded, and has a couple of small tears, but is overall very good.
Willa Cather deserves more recognition for the poems that she produced. Her poetry has a depth and timeless nature, that though these poems were written more than one-hundred years ago, they will resonate with the modern reader. You will be transported to a different time and place, and feel the wind blow through your hair, and smell the freshly cut hay. You most certainly will be deeply touched.