Description
First edition, first issue of The Professor’s House by Willa Cather. Octavo, 283pp, blue cloth spine, orange boards, title on spine faded as usual. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front end paper. Top leaf red. Ex-library copy, clean pages. Lacks dust jacket. Housed in custom clamshell decorative case, black leather spine, gilt title, red velum sides. Light shelf wear to spine of clamshell case. An attractive presentation for this scarce first edition.
Comments: This novel by Willa Cather was published in 1925, the book deals with themes of modernity and the natural world. Like other novels of the era, it touches on the moral decline of the nation in the 1920s and a money driven culture.
