8vo. Original green cloth-backed boards gilt; original printed dust wrapper (minor soiling, a few short tears); original board slipcase.
 
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 51 of 520 copies SIGNED BY CATHER.  Cather began to write her final complicated novel, Sapphira, in the spring of 1937, and she continued to work on it until publication. Set in 1856 Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, the novel's vivid characters were drawn from Cather's own childhood memories, and the novel explores antebellum enslavement through the anxieties and paranoia of a white slaveowner, Sapphira, in the years leading up to the Civil War. Crane A22.a.i.