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Willa Cather. First edition (stated).
Dust Jacket: Very Good+ The publisher printed the dust jackets with a $2.50 price, but later decided to sell the book for $2. So all first editions copies are price clipped, as is this. Has some fading on the spine otherwise looks very good, still has vibrant yellow color. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. No marks or writing in the book, 229 pp.
Willa Cather (1873 - 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains. In this work, Three New Stories of the West, each one deals with the death of a main character, and asks, how the ordinary lives of these characters can be valued and how "beauty was found or created in seemingly ordinary circumstances."(Wikipedia)
In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.

First edition. Signed by the author on the title page.
Hardcover: Very Good+ No dust jacket issued. Nova Scotia: Findlay A. Grant, 1884. Bound in brown cloth with embossed scrolling at top of front cover. Decorated end papers. Water stain on front cover. No writing or markings in the book, 127 pp.
The book contains 74 pages of poetry and 53 pages of sketches. A scarce signed copy.