Lucy Gayheart
Lucy Gayheart
Willa Cather. First edition, second printed (stated). Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket with original price $2.00 on inside flap. Jacket designed by Rudolph Ruzicka. Jacket has a lot of wear and tear, foxing and missing a piece on top of spine. The inside flap is barely attached. Hardcover: Very Good. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. The binding (spine) is a bit skewed but still fully intact. Green cloth with black lettering in cover and spine surrounded in yellow. No writing or markings in the book, 231 pp.
A good example in scarce publishers dust jacket. A bestseller in 1935. This novel chronicles the life of Lucy Gayheart, a young girl living in Platte River, Nebraska. Cather won a Pulitzer Prize for her World War I novel, One of Ours, in 1923.