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Alexander's Bridge
by Cather, Willa
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good (in mylar)
- Seller
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922. New Edition with a Preface; Willa Cather's first novel. Lightly aged endpapers, former owner's pencil signature on ffep, else textblock is clean and very tight. Red cloth binding, lightly bumped head and foot of spine. Rubbed, unclipped dust jacket, very edge-worn and sunned, chipped and worn spine extremities; 175p.. New Edition. Red Cloth. Very Good/Good (in mylar). 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
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
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB12112
- Title
- Alexander's Bridge
- Author
- Cather, Willa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good (in mylar)
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- Classic Fiction, Classic Literature, Boston Literature, London Fiction, Bartley Alexander Ficticious Character
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
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- Sunned
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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