October 12th Rare Autograph & Document Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/12/2023
Signed book: Lucy Gayheart. Limited signed first edition of 749 copies (this being No. 46). NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.25, 231 pages. Signed on the colophon in black ink. Autographic condition: Fine. Book condition: VG/None. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine and gilted upper text block edge; spine sunned; some very light foxing to exterior; slightly yellowed (darker at pastedowns); previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown. In attractive custom-made case, half-bound in blue leather with gilt titles and marbled edges.
Willa Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. In 2023, a statue of Willa Cather was placed in Statuary Hall in the US Capitol, one of the statues from the State of Nebraska.
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Willa Cather Signed First Edition of "Lucy Gayheart"
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