A Lost Lady
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-173, [3] pp. Green publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; pink topstain. Beautiful green and purple endpapers and pastedowns. Crane A13. Variant A of the first printing of the first trade edition. New Yorker, Benjamin Lytal, "The Stepsister Novels of Willa Cather and F. Scott Fitzgerald". This novel's influence on F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, is discussed at length by writer, Benjamin Lytal. Lytal notes several similarities between the two novels' heroines, Marian Forrester and Daisy Buchanan, and the effect they each have on their suitors. Both novels speak to the end of an era and its sub-culture (Cather's American west at the end of the railroad boom, Fitzgerald's Roaring 20's at the height of their excess). Very Good / Very Good. Item #000014080
A name dated 1923 on the half-title page, the dedication page with a little chip; jacket with two chips and a thin brown discoloration on the spine panel.
Price: $650.00