CATHER, Willa

O Pioneers!

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. First Edition. First printing, binding a. Octavo (19cm). Yellow-brown cloth, stamped in brown; plain endpapers; [x],[310]pp; color frontispiece. Straight and sound, lightly rubbed at edges, stamped on spine lightly worn, internally clean: Very Good.

Cather's second published novel, and her first great work. The story of a Swedish-American family running a farm in Nebraska, "at once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels" (The National Willa Cather Center online). Cather took the title from a poem by Whitman. One of 2,000 copies printed. CRANE A6.A.i. HANNA 637. COAN p.10. .

Price: $1,000.00

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