Very Good firmly bound volume, some soiling to spine, spine end cloth rubbed, endpapers display soiling.

This copy married to a contemporary dustjacket with '4th Large Printing' plug at spine. She wrote a letter to a friend that the place made her feel wretched and caused her to stutter. Cather did not feel the speech went well and blamed it upon the ugliness of the lecture hall. The lecture was given at Mandel Hall to a capacity audience.

Stevenson, whose ownership signature accompanies Cather's at endpaper, his bookplate also resides at front pastedown. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. Kohn, a prominent Chicago lawyer and associate of Adlai E. Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers, The Song of the Lark, and My ntonia. Cather was giving a lecture at the University of Chicago on this date and presumably this copy was signed at the event for Louis A. Inscription at front endpaper reads simply, 'Willa Cather / November 17 / 1925'. Seldom encountered signed and dated first trade edition of Cather's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. This stamp is part of the American Arts Issue, and Cather is the only woman featured in the Issue.CATHER, Willa. The stamp was designed by Mark English and contains a profile of Cather with a background of a pioneer family in a covered wagon that represents Cather’s pioneer themed stories. The Willa Cather stamp was issued in Cather’s home of Red Cloud, Nebraska. Some of her most famous works include, O Pioneers!, My Antonia, and One of Ours which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Cather wrote fiction throughout her entire life but did not focus solely on creative writing until she left her managing editor position at McClure’s in 1912. Cather (1873-1947) was a prolific author of novels and short stories that described pioneer life and generally contained strong female women who survived on the frontier. Her works of fiction based around frontier life continue to entertain modern American readers. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning awards including the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy during. This website uses cookies as well as similar tools and technologies to. By continuing to use this website, you consent to Columbia University's usage of cookies and similar technologies, in accordance with the. Willa Cather was one of the most widely read female authors of the twentieth century. This website uses cookies as well as similar tools and technologies to understand visitors' experiences. This 8-cent stamp was issued September 20, 1973.

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