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Willa Cather

Sapphira and the Slave Girl, 1940
NY: Knopf
One of 520 copies, this belonging to the printer. Signed by Cather.
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Set in the author's native Virginia, the novel spans the Civil War, with tensions of race, class, and morality similar to those expressed in Gone with the Wind. Bound quarter...
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Set in the author's native Virginia, the novel spans the Civil War, with tensions of race, class, and morality similar to those expressed in Gone with the Wind. Bound quarter green cloth with green paper over boards. Spine sunned, as expected for such a fugitive color. Near fine. Housed in shelf-toned slipcase.
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