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Sapphira and the Slave Girl
by Willa Cather
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940, 1940. First Edition. Number 341 of a limited edition of 520 numbered and signed by Willa Cather. Only 498 of the 520 Limited Edition were offered for sale. Fine copy in Dust Jacket, Slipcase not present. Book was printed on Rives Liampre All-Rag Paper. Each copy signed by the Author. Cather's Last Novel. Octavo, original half gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge gilt. Fine in the original dust jacket. Willa Cather's "last novel is a tour de force of narrative, returning once again to history as a series of tales told and tales remembered. A Pre-Civil War novel set in the Virginia of Cather's early childhood, Sapphira and the Slave Girl intertwines the escape narrative of an enslaved African American, with the imperious, proud, and vengeful mistress of the house" (Modern American Women Writers, 45).
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
- The FW Collections
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H248
- Title
- Sapphira and the Slave Girl
- Author
- Willa Cather
- Format/Binding
- Green Boards, dark green binding and gold embossed design and printing
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition, limited edition 341 of 520 copies signed by the a
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- 6.5x10
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- rare books; Civil War; ABAA-50;
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About the Seller
The FW Collections
Biblio member since 2020
Lincoln, Nebraska
About The FW Collections
The FW Collections include a wide range of Vintage and Newer Books, Maps, Posters, Poetry, Magazines, Prints, Fine Art, Ephemera, Photographs, Paper from 50 years of collecting. Favorite topics: vintage midwest, visual arts, farming, politics, governance, cultural variations, WWII, and history, family life and vintage children's Books
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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