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Lot 26
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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CATHER, Willa (1873-1947). Sapphira and the Slave Girl. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.
8vo. Original publisher's green cloth-backed boards gilt; original printed dust wrapper (light soiling to spine, minor creasing to edges); slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 324 of 520 copies, SIGNED BY CATHER. The author's final completed novel which explores antebellum enslavement through the anxieties and paranoia of white slaveowner Sapphira in 1856 in Virginia.