My Antonia.
Cather, Willa. My Antonia. With illustrations by W.T. Benda. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, (1918).
8vo.; bookplate on front pastedown; brown cloth; light wear to extremities. Quarter-morocco slipcase.
First edition, second or third printing. Crane A9a.ii.
A presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper: "Mr. & Mrs. D. A. Ellsworth With Christmas Greetings from Mr. & Mrs. William Allen White and Willa Sibert Cather. 1919." All in Cather's hand with the possible exception of the date. William Allen White (1868-1944) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, and a friend of Cather.
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