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Lucy Gayheart
by Cather, Willa
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition of Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather.. Small octavo, 231pp. Green cloth, printed title on label. Light toning to cloth at headband, endpapers with faint discoloration from dust jacket. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Lean to text block, but solid. In publisher's very good dust jacket, $2.00 on front flap, wear along top edge, bright illustrations and colors. A very good example. (Crane A20.a.i). A bestseller in 1935. This novel chronicles the life of Lucy Gayheart, a young girl from Haverford, near the Platte River in Nebraska.
Synopsis
Lucy Gayheart is Willa Cather's eleventh novel. It was published in 1935.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11001
- Title
- Lucy Gayheart
- Author
- Cather, Willa
- Illustrator
- First edition of Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- My Antonia, O Pioneers, The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, The Professor's House, The Lost Lady, Alexander's Bridge Cather, Sapphira and The Slave Girl, The Song of the Lark, One of Ours, Pulitzer Prize, Lucy Gayheart, The Troll Garden, My Mortal En
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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