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Sapphira and the Slave Girl
by Cather, Willa
- Used
- first
- Condition
- good: spine faded and bumped, age toning on both paste downs, corners sharp, text un marked, binding tight, faint signs of damp /no dj
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. first. hardcover. good: spine faded and bumped, age toning on both paste downs, corners sharp, text un marked, binding tight, faint signs of damp stain on first few pages/no dj. First edition of Willa Cather's final novel, about an embittered slave owning white woman in Virginia in 1856, and the slave girl she mistreats out of paranoid rage.
no dust jacket. #00011.
no dust jacket. #00011.
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
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75
- Title
- Sapphira and the Slave Girl
- Author
- Cather, Willa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - good: spine faded and bumped, age toning on both paste downs, corners sharp, text un marked, binding tight, faint signs of damp
- Jacket Condition
- no dj
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- historical fiction, fiction, literature, first edition
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
small online used bookstore based in Chattanooga, TN. Little bit of everything, but lots of modern first editions.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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