LUCY GAYHEART. by Cather, Willa.

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LUCY GAYHEART.

Edition: First edition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. Hardcover first edition - Cather's 11th novel. In the story of Lucy, a beautiful and impressionable young girl who heads to Chicago to study music, Cather reveals the "impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American values and world culture, and the grandeur, elation, and heartache that await a gifted young woman who leaves her small Nebraska town to pursue a life in art." 231 pp plus a designer's note.

Condition: Very good in light green cloth with paper labels on spine and front cover - sunning to the cloth, especially on the spine, blank bookplate on front pastedown, no dust jacket.

Book ID: 77801
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