LUCY GAYHEART.
by Cather, Willa
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in light green cloth with paper labels on spine and front cover - sunning to the cloth, especially on the spine, blank/light green cloth with paper labels on spine and front cover - sunning to the cloth, especially on the spine, blank bookplate on
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1935.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in light green cloth with paper labels on spine and front cover - sunning to the cloth, especially on the spine, blank bookplate on front pastedown, no dust jacket. . First edition. Cather's 11th novel. In the story of Lucy, a beautiful and impressionable young girl who heads to Chicago to study music, Cather reveals the "impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American values and world culture, and the grandeur, elation, and heartache that await a gifted young woman who leaves her small Nebraska town to pursue a life in art." 231 pp plus a designer's note.
Synopsis
Lucy Gayheart is Willa Cather's eleventh novel. It was published in 1935.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77801
- Title
- LUCY GAYHEART.
- Author
- Cather, Willa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in light green cloth with paper labels on spine and front cover - sunning to the cloth, especially on the spine, blank
- Jacket Condition
- light green cloth with paper labels on spine and front cover - sunning to the cloth, especially on the spine, blank bookplate on
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1935.
- Keywords
- nebraska, music,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first editions;
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