One of Ours.
Deluxe Issue Of The Work That
Won Cather The Pulitzer Prize
Cather, Willa. One of Ours. New York: Knopf, 1922.
Thick 8vo.; title page printed in black and orange; vellum pages, fresh and bright; cream paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt; a.e.g.; gilt ribbon bookmark; publisher’s linen-covered box, spine label lightly frayed.
First edition, deluxe issue, 35 numbered copies on imperial Japan vellum signed by Cather; there were also 300 signed copies printed on a lesser stock of paper. A stunning copy, signed twice by Cather: once, as called for, beneath the colophon; and again on the front endpaper, suggesting that this was one of her retained copies.
One of Ours tells the story of a non-conformist young man who is confined by the rigid atmosphere of his small mid-Western home town; the hero seeks, and eventually finds, his own identity in the French trenches during the first World War. Although One of Ours has not stood the test of time as well as My Ántonia or Death Comes for the Archbishop, it received significant praise upon publication, and earned her the 1923 Pulitzer Prize.
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