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Lot 88
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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300
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$344
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Lot Description
CATHER, Willa (1873-1947) The Professor's House. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.
8vo. Original publisher's purple cloth-backed orange cloth boards, top edge red; publisher's pictorial dust jacket (front and rear panel with 1/2-in along flap fold abraded affecting one letter, spine panel creased with discoloration).
FIRST EDITION, TRADE ISSUE, written in three parts: Chapter II, "Tom Outland's Story" (which Cather wrote first), is framed by "The Family" (Chapter I), and "The Professor" (Chapter 3). Johnson p.104.