Shadows on the Rock
by Cather, Willa
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Excellent/Very Good
- Seller
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Redding, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NewYork:: Knopf., 1931. Limted Edition of 199 copies printed on Shidzuoka Japan red/orange Vellum, this being No. 25, 619 SIGNED BY WILLA CATHER. Original light brown dust wrapper lettered in black on the spine. Minor toning and soiling to dust wrapper, remnants of book plate on front pastedown, otherwise a beautiful copy of this scarce edition. Housed in publisher's gray slipcase that shows some wear.. Excellent/Very Good.
Synopsis
This tale was published in 1931. Willa Cather's Shadows on the Rock tells the tale of a young girl, her widower father, and their friends, all of them working to make a life for themselves in Quebec in 1697.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000077
- Title
- Shadows on the Rock
- Author
- Cather, Willa
- Book Condition
- Used - Excellent
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf.
- Place of Publication
- NewYork:
- Date Published
- 1931
Terms of Sale
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....