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O pioneers! / Willa Cather.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
Contributor:
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.
Series:
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. 1937 ; Works. 1.
The novels and stories of Willa Cather ; 1
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Swedish Americans--Fiction.
Swedish Americans.
Siblings--Fiction.
Siblings.
Brothers and sisters.
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Women immigrants.
Women farmers--Fiction.
Women farmers.
Women pioneers--Fiction.
Women pioneers.
Farm life--Fiction.
Farm life.
Nebraska--Fiction.
Nebraska.
Genre:
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Physical Description:
261 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 23 cm.
Edition:
Autograph edition.
Place of Publication:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937.
Notes:
Second edition, first printing (autograph edition, vol. 1). Cf. Crane.
"Nine hundred and seventy copies of this edition have been printed from type at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, of which nine hundred and fifty signed and numbered copies are for sale."--Limitation notice.
Binding: one quarter blind-tooled cream linen cloth over dark gray-blue linen cloth; monogram ("WC") stamped in gold on each board; gold-stamped black leather spine label; gilt tops; fore- and tail edges untrimmed. Issued in full-wrap dust jacket.
Local Notes:
Schimmel Collection copy is no. 547 of a limited ed. of 970 copies, signed by the author. Cf. limitation notice.
Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
Cited in:
Crane, J. Willa Cather: a bibliography, A6.b.i
OCLC:
2566739

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