- Keyword = Willa Cather
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PIONEERS AND CARETAKERs: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (1955) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which focus on the work of 9 major American women writers of the late 19th and 20th centuries - Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, Carson McCullers, and Mary McCarthy - in their dual roles as conservationists of American culture and as literary pioneers. Index. 202 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a good dustjacket (some rubbing to the dj, price-clipped).
Book ID: 85021More details Price: $23.50 -
PASSIONS OF THE MIND: Selected Writings.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays by this Booker prize winning writer on other writers - Victorians like Robert Browning and George Eliot, modern writers like William Golding, and other women writers ranging from Willa Cather, to Sylvia Plath, Barbara Pym and Georgette Heyer. Notes, index. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-679-405119.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 18376More details Price: $27.50 -
A CHANCE MEETING: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967.
Edition: First UK printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74491More details Price: $18.50 -
THE END OF THE NOVEL OF LOVE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Boston: Beacon Press, (1997.). Essays on books and writers - from Clover Adams (wife of Henry Adams) to Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Andre Dubus, and more. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-8070-62233.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 53101More details Price: $10.00 -
WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE, November 1988. Volume XXIII (23), Number 3.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1988. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on the myth of Quetxalcoatl by Anaya, on Jack London, James Fenimore Cooper's influence on Karl May and the Indian myths they created, and on recently discovered letters by Willa Cather. Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Very near fine in tan printed wrappers (small piece torn from upper edge of first page).
Book ID: 32241More details Price: $10.00