Shadows on the Rock.
Cather, Willa. Shadows On The Rock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Large 8vo, 280pp; fine linen marbled curl cloth in green-blue, dark blue, red-brown and ochre; beveled edges; red-brown leather label at spine lettered in gold; dark red ribbon marker; full-wrap heavy cream dust-jacket lettered in black at the spine with the copy’s number at the heel; dust-jacket lacks a shallow 1/4 x 3/4” piece at the head of the spine which is darkened; tears along folds and two longish tears near spine at front panel; the book is fine and the full-wrap jacket, very good.
First edition. One of 619 numbered copies on Croxley hand-made paper; signed as called for at the colophon. The NYPL comments that “In 1931, when as many as five million American workers were jobless and the industrializing world seemed about to collapse, the relatively stable traditional community depicted in this beautifully written novel provided solace to its readers. It was the first of Willa Cather’s many books to become a best-seller.” Crane A17.a.i. NYPL Books of the Century, p. 197.
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