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Sapphira and the Slave Girl
by Willa Cather
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition/First Printing. VG/G+. The book is tight and straight with good tips. Clean green cloth and paste-down labels on front and spine. Sunning to spine and orange top-stain is faded. Some light aging to pages but the text is solid and clean with no writing, highlights, bookplate, embossed seal, or marks. Stated First Edition. Not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Back cover BORZOI BOOKS blind stamp. Dust jacket is original with $2.50 on the front flap. First edition point: BORZOI BOOKS logo on the back flap. Medium age-toning to the spine, back, and flaps. Minor extremity wear and small chips to spine heal and bottom corner (see photos). Also included is a postcard/pre-order form sent from a Dallas bookstore to customers announcing the novel's arrival on December 7th, 1940. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. A nice collectible copy.
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
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2040
- Title
- Sapphira and the Slave Girl
- Author
- Willa Cather
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Paste-down
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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