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Sapphira and the Slave Girl
by Cather, Willa
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/VG-
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Book Club Edition (BCE) . Hardcover. Very Good+/VG-. Ruzicka, Rudolph (Dust Jacket cover art). Cather's final novel, which tells the story of an unhappy, middle-aged white woman in Virgina & her young black slave. Orig. published in 1940, this is a Book Club Edition (BCE), same design, with the always hard-to-find DJ. 295 pp. Hardcover (8vo) has light green cloth over boards with an orange & black paper title box to center front & upper spine. Condition is VG+: very clean, pages modestly tanned, heavier around edges. Binding strong & straight, hinges intact. Slight indent from former penciled name, erased, to ffep, else unmarked. Slight sunning to spine & along top edges of both boards is only flaw. The unclipped DJ is VG-, with mild edgewear but missing a small chip at bottom-outer corner of front cover & paper loss across head of spine; nicely protected in new mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have here! All orders processed before 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time) ship that same Day; Weekends & holidays, very next business day.
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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- Seller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 016796
- Title
- Sapphira and the Slave Girl
- Author
- Cather, Willa
- Illustrator
- Ruzicka, Rudolph (Dust Jacket cover art)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- VG-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition (BCE)
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- FICTION NOVEL MIDDLE-AGE AGING WOMEN HOMEMAKERS MISTRESS SLAVE AFRICAN AMERICAN BLACK WHITE RACE RACIAL SOUTH SOUTHERN VIRGINIA FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories; Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature: General;
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La Mesa, California
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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...
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