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Oxford At The Clarendon Press, 1953. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1953. Reprinted. 200 pages. Laminated pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some underlining. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Clipped jacket has heavy wear with tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Some water marks to spine.

Oxford University Press - at the Clarendon Press, January 1944. Trade Paperback . Used Very Good/yes .

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. lvi, 200pp. Blue cloth, gilt spine. Binding cocked, spine lightly sunned, near fine in a price-clipped, about very good dust jacket with small chips and tears, loss at the spine ends (affecting text), and interior tape repairs. Ownership signature of Edith Lewis on front fly. Lewis was the lifelong domestic partner, editor, and literary executor of Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Willa Cather. Following Cather's death, Lewis published a memoir of her in 1953 titled *Willa Cather Living.* Historically, Lewis was often overlooked and made into Cather's secretary, which she was not, but rather a professional woman with demanding office jobs as a magazine editor at *McClure's Magazine,* the managing editor of *Every Week Magazine,* and an advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson. According to recent work by scholar Melissa Homestead, Lewis shaped Cather's prose alongside her in a sort of "parallel silent activity in… Read More