Willa Cather, First Editions, s/2 Shadows on the Rock (1931), Sapphire and retailer The Slave Girl (1940), Knopf

Two Vintage Novels by Willa Cather, First Editions, Shadows on the Rock (1931), Sapphire and The Slave Girl (1940), Knopf

Shadows on the Rock, Willa Cather, Alfred A. Knopf, 1931, First Edition, Fourth Printing
- Green cloth cover, no dust jacket. paste down title on front cover and spine. Faded and soiled. Bumped edges. Inside owner's signature and bookseller's marks. Otherwise clean inside. Binding solid. See pictures for more evidence of condition.

Sapphire and The Slave Girl, Willa Cather, Alfred A. Knopf, 1940, First Edition
- Green cloth cover, no dust jacket. paste down title on front cover and spine. Faded. Some wear on the corner. Library sticker. Some spotting inside. retailer See pictures for more evidence of condition.

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Willa Sibert Cather (/ˈkæðər/;[1] born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873[A] – 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.

Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska when she was nine years old. The family later settled in the town of Red Cloud. In 1890, at the age of sixteen, Cather graduated from Red Cloud High School.[17] Shortly after graduating from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Cather moved to Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33, she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. She spent the last 39 years of her life with her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, before being diagnosed with breast cancer and dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. She is buried alongside Lewis in a Jaffrey, New Hampshire plot.

Cather achieved recognition as a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience. She wrote of the spirit of those settlers moving into the western states, many of them European immigrants in the nineteenth century. Common themes in her work include nostalgia and exile. A sense of place is an important element in Cather's fiction: physical landscapes and domestic spaces are for Cather dynamic presences against which her characters struggle and find community.

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