Willa Cather

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); navy blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, with publisher's logo debossed onto front cover; dustjacket; [iv],115,[1]pp, with a portrait frontispiece of the author. Light wear to crown, two tiny nicks to cloth at lower board edges, with just a touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.50), spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and a small chip at mid-spine; Very Good. Early critical study of Cather's work, part of the publisher's "Modern American Writers" series. 84280. (Inventory #: 84280)