Troll Garden, The.
Cather, Willa. The Troll Garden. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905.
8vo.; red cloth stamped in blind and gilt; spine lightly darkened; light wear to extremities. In a specially made quarter-morocco slipcase.
First edition, first issue. Includes “Flavia and Her Artists,” “The Garden Lodge,” “The Marriage of Phaedra,” “Paul’s Case,” “‘A Death in the Desert’,” “A Wagner Matinée,” and the well-known “The Sculptor’s Funeral.” The first four of these stories debuted in The Troll Garden; of the others, “‘A Death in the Desert’” and “A Wagner Matinée” were “extensively reworked by WC for inclusion” here. The second issue was comprised of sheets from McClure’s run after they folded in 1906—complete with their title page—bound up by Doubleday, Page & Co. with their name stamped at the foot of the spine. Crane A4a.
Cather wrote most of these stories while living with her close friend and patron Isabelle McClung, to whom she dedicated the collection. Though McClure’s book imprint dissolved shortly after publication of The Troll Garden, they continued to promote Cather’s burgeoning career. In 1906 she became a staff writer at McClure’s magazine, and in 1908 was named managing editor, a post she held for four years.
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