SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL
by Cather, Willa
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good-
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 295 pp. Green cloth with a blue pasted-on label in black and orange on the front panel and spine. The cloth has faded around the edges and has some mottling; the front label has fallen off but is present; the dustjacket is chipped at the corners and at the head of the spine; darkened on the spine; price clipped. This was Ms Cather's final novel. It is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter but privileged white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave. The book balances the story of antebellum Virginia against the lives of Sapphira's slaves..
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
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 217698
- Title
- SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL
- Author
- Cather, Willa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- slavery; black studies; racism; civil rights; civil war; 1856; virginia; deep south; african slaves; black lives matter; antiquarian;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Historical adventure;
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About the Seller
W. Fraser Sandercombe
Biblio member since 2004
Burlington, Ontario
About W. Fraser Sandercombe
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