Shadows on the Rock

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.

Price: $2,500.00

Hardcover. First edition, first issue, trade issue, in the first issue rose-colored dustwrapper (one of two colors, no priority). Spine a bit sunned as usual, thus near fine in fine dustwrapper with a tear on the front panel. A beautiful copy. Ex-collection of Tony Bill.

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Item #425507 Shadows on the Rock. Willa CATHER.

Willa Cather
birth name: Willa Sibert Cather
born: 12/7/1873
died: 4/24/1947
nationality: USA

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Biography

American novelist noted for her portrayals of frontier life on the American plains. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

All of the earliest of Cather's books are rare in dustjackets, and commensurately expensive. Especially prized are O Pioneers!, (1913 - with "Willa S. Cather" on the spine, later printings dropped the "S."), The Song of the Lark. (1915 - first issue lists three other titles by Cather on the copyright page), and My Antonia, (1918 - first state has illustrations on coated paper). One quirky book to look out for, supposedly edited by her, but actually largely written by Cather was The Life of Mary G. Baker Eddy and The History of Christian Science by Georgine Milmine (1909) is not usually so expensive, but of course, isn't so interesting as her fiction, either.

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