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THE MELTING SEASON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised third book, a story about the strength it takes to both face up to and escape the past. "Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn't hers. She's just left the only home she's ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after the only man she had ever known, her husband, Thomas, deserted her. . . On the road, she was going to become a new person. Or so she thought." SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 978-1594488962.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 82393More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MELTING SEASON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised third book, a story about the strength it takes to both face up to and escape the past. "Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn't hers. She's just left the only home she's ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after the only man she had ever known, her husband, Thomas, deserted her. . . On the road, she was going to become a new person. Or so she thought." SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 978-1594488962.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82394More details Price: $35.00 -
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: 77801More details Price: $18.00 -
THE PRAIRIE TRILOGY: O Pioneers! - The Song of the Lark - My Antonia.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Denton and White, 2013. Omnibus edition of three novels by Willa Cather - O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark and My Antonia - originally published in 1913 to 1918 and all rooted in the prairie lands of the American West. 660 pp. ISBN: 978-1494748562.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83299More details Price: $18.00 -
THE ROAD HOME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic family history, rooted in the Nebraska soil, and stretching over the years from the close of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. 446 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-87113-7240.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 65395More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BATTLE OF THE WILD TURKEY AND OTHER TALES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1961. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A wonderful collection of short stories, most set on the Nebraska plains in the late 1800's, published when the author was 86. INSCRIBED on the blank prelim 'To Calvin J. Nichols, with the warmest regards of Alvin Johnson.' Johnson is best known for his founding of the New School for Social Research in 1919, but in 1933, he created a 'university in exile' as a haven for scholars who fled from Nazi persecution. Laid in are newpaper obituaries for Johnson (1971.)
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (slight discoloration to the endpapers from the clippings, a little wear to the dj at the top of the spine.)
Book ID: 20575More details Price: $45.00 -
CONQUERING HORSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - His eleventh book, a novel set in "Siouxland," the story of a young Sioux who wins his manhood and the right to lead his trible. As a "maverick" writer Manfred was always an outsider in terms of the literary establishment, although some of his books were best-sellers and his novel 'Lord Grizzly' was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1954. Glossary. 355 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (previous owner's name stamped on front endpaper, some overall edgewear and chipping to the dj) Uncommon in the hardcover first edition.
Book ID: 80394More details Price: $30.00 -
ARROW OF LOVE.
Edition: First printing.
Denver: Allan Swallow, Publisher, (1961.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three novellas, all set in Manfred's "Siouxland" (the area where the borders of Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska meet). In addition to the title story (described as 'a romance'), this contains "Lew and Luanne" (a comedy) and "Country Love" (a pastoral). As a "maverick" writer Manfred was always an outsider in terms of the literary establishment, although some of his books were best-sellers and his novel 'Lord Grizzly' was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1954. Reportedly only 500 copies of this book were printed. 220 pp.
Condition: Good in very good dust jacket (the rather inexpensively produced binding has cracked before the title page and is "over-opened" at the end of the book, Dustjacket has a little toning to the spine, minor wear - still a quite presentable copy.
Book ID: 32978More details Price: $45.00 -
A LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A continuation of the story of Warner, the 'old man' in 'Fire Sermon' who has driven his ancient Maxwell coupe from California to his childhood home in Nebraska. A deceptively simple, and almost poetic, portrait of the last hours of an old man's life. 152 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0130792.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name stamped on half title page, some light edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 46792More details Price: $15.00 -
WILL'S BOY: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning novelist's account of his childhood and youth. When his mother died when he was just 6, he was raised by his father Will - first in rural Nebraska and then in Chicago. Frontispiece. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-06-014856x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (embossed seal of previous owner on front endpaper, dj priceclipped.)
Book ID: 36418More details Price: $15.00 -
WILL'S BOY: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning novelist's account of his childhood and youth. When his mother died when he was just 6, he was raised by his father Will - first in rural Nebraska and then in Chicago. Frontispiece. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-06-014856x.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (remainder mark, chip to lower corner of dj.)
Book ID: 52287More details Price: $14.50 -
A LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A continuation of the story of Warner, the 'old man' in 'Fire Sermon' who has driven his ancient Maxwell coupe from California to his childhood home in Nebraska. A deceptively simple, and almost poetic, portrait of the last hours of an old man's life. 152 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0130792.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 33551More details Price: $20.00 -
WILL'S BOY: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning novelist's account of his childhood and youth. When his mother died when he was just 6, he was raised by his father Will - first in rural Nebraska and then in Chicago. Frontispiece. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-06-014856x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33553More details Price: $18.00 -
COME SUNDAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A highly acclaimed first novel , a story surrounding the kidnapping of a Hondurian elder. William Burroughs compared it to works by Kafka and Conrad's Heart of Darkness - and such diverse writers as Peter Straub and Paul West contributed dust jacket blurbs. ISBN: 1555841783.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (edges of boards bumped in several places)
Book ID: 61826More details Price: $16.50 -
COME SUNDAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A highly acclaimed first novel , a story surrounding the kidnapping of a Hondurian elder. William Burroughs compared it to works by Kafka and Conrad's Heart of Darkness - and such diverse writers as Peter Straub and Paul West contributed dust jacket blurbs. ISBN: 1555841783.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 3677More details Price: $21.50 -
THE MESMERIST
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1977.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in 1899 in a small town in Nebraska, and inspired by the 1900 trial for murder of an acknowledged hypnotist. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 410 pp. ISBN: 0-440-055423.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (light edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 11186More details Price: $45.00 -
THE MESMERIST
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1977.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in 1899 in a small town in Nebraska, and inspired by the 1900 trial for murder of an acknowledged hypnotist. SIGNED on the title page. 410 pp. ISBN: 0-440-055423.
Condition: Near fine in fair only dust jacket (several short tears on the edges of the dj with associated creasing.).
Book ID: 47809More details Price: $30.00 -
OLD JULES COUNTRY: A Selection from Old Jules and Thirty Years of Writing Since the Book was Published.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Hastings House, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Issued to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the publication of 'Old Jules' - Sandoz's biography of her father - this contains a "generous selection" of her non-fiction work, including some previously unpublished pieces , Includes a bibliography of her works 319 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, minor edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 45390More details Price: $18.50 -
SON OF THE GAMBLIN' MAN: the Youth of an Artist.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Clarkson Potter, 1960. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel based on the lives of early Nebraska homesteader and gambler (the best faro player in the West), John Jackson Cozad, and his son, the painter, Robert Henri. 333 pp.
Condition: Near fine in beige cloth with dark brown lettering, in a raggedy dust jacket, missing half the spine and a large chunk of the front cover.
Book ID: 6018More details Price: $25.00
