My Antonia.
Cather, Willa Sibert. My Ántonia. With illustrations by W.T. Benda. New edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926.
8vo.; brown cloth, stamped in gilt; stamping rubbed off; light wear to extremities. In a specially made quarter-morocco slipcase.
Second edition of Cather’s masterwork, issued eight years after the first edition with substantial revisions to the first chapter, “Introduction”; 5000 copies. Crane A9bi, noting that only the preliminaries and three page first chapter were reset to render this a new edition; the balance of the book was prepared from the plates of the first edition.
A presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper: "For Steichen / from his admiring sitter. / Willa Cather." This is one of three inscriptions Cather made to Steichen on the occasion of her August 24, 1927 sitting scheduled to coincide with the publication of Death Comes for the Archbishop. The other volumes she inscribed that day are A Lost Lady (1924), present in this collection, and a prepublication copy of Death Comes for the Archbishop.
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