Willa Silbert Cather
Female : Novelist, Poet & Short Story writer. Died of a Cerebral haemorrhage
Nationality : American
Place of Birth : Nr. Winchester, W Virginia
Date of Birth : 1873 Date of Death : 1947 Age : 74
Pseudonyms : S S McClure
Other Work : Edited McLure's Magazine 1906-11
Education : University of Nebraska
1903-1920
April Twilights & Other Poems (1903 Gorham Press) - poems
Offered in 1999 for £1215
(1923 Knopf - 450 signed & Numbered)
(1923 Knopf Large Paper Ed of 450 signed) (1924 Heinemann) (1933 Knopf) (1962 Nebraska UP)
The Troll Garden (1905 McClure, Philips NY) (1983 Nebraska UP : Variorum Ed) - ss
(Ed) Georgine Milmine : The Life of Mary Baker G Eddy & the History of Christian science
(1909 Doubleday)
Alexander's Bridge (1912 Houghton Mifflin) (1912 Heinemann)
O Pioneers ! (1913 Houghton Mifflin) (1913 Heinemann)
My Autobiography (1914 Stokes) - by S S McClure
The Song of the Lark (1915 Houghton Mifflin) (1916 Heinemann)
My Antonia (1918 Houghton Mifflin) (1919 Heinemann) - W T Benda
1921-1930
Youth & the Bright Medusa (1921 Knopf) (1921 Knopf - Large Paper Ed of 125 signed
(1921 Heinemann) - ss
One of Ours (1922 Knopf) (1923 Heinemann)
Three editions by Knopf in 1922 - 250 Sepcially bound Ltd Ed; Large Paper Signed Ed 310;
35 signed on Japanese vellum
A Lost Lady (1923 Knopf) (1924 Heinemann)
[Filmed in 1934]
220 copies on handmade paper - 200 numbered by Knopf in 1923
The Professor's House (1925 Knopf) (1926 Tauchnitz) (1928 Heinemann)
Also by Knopf 1925 : Standard large paper Signed Ed of 185; De Luxe large paper Ed - 40 signed copies
(Ed) The Best stories of Sarah Orne Jewett (1925 Houghton Mifflin) - 2 vols
My Mortal Enemy (1926 Knopf) - Offered in 1999 for £394 (1928 Heinemann)
Also by Knopf 1926 : Large Paper Ed in Japanese vellum - 220 signed
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927 Knopf) (1927 Heinemann)
Also by Knopf 1927 : Large Paper Ed of 170 signed copies on rag paper
De Luxe Large paper Ed on Japanses Vellum - 50 signed
And in 1929 Knopf : Illustrated Edition & De Luxe illustrated Ed of 170 signed copiesx
1931-1950
Shadows on the Rock (1931 Knopf) (1932 Cassell)
Also by Knopf in 1931 : Large Paper Edition, 619 signed; De Lucxe Large Paper Ed 199 signed
The Fear That Walks by Noonday (1931 Phoenix Book Shop, US)
Obscure Destinies (1932 Knopf) (1932 Knopf Large Paper Ed - 260 signed) (1932 Cassell)- ss
December Night (1933 Knopf) - Harold von Schmidt
Lucy Gayheart (1935 Knopf) (1935 Cassell)
Also from Knopf in 1940 - 749 signed
Not Under Forty (1936 Knopf) (1936 Knopf - Large Paper Ed of 333 signed)
Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940 Knopf) - 520 signed (1941 Cassell)
The Old Beauty and Others (1948 Knopf) (1956 Cassell 9/6) - ss
On Writing : Critical Studies on Writing as an Art (1949 Knopf)
Writings from Willa Cather's Campus Years (1950 Nebraska UP)
After 1951
Willa Cather in Europe (1956 Knopf)
Father Juniperos Holy Family (1956 The Anvil Press, Lexington - 200) - ss
Early Stories (1957 Dodd, Mead)
Collected Short Fiction 1892-1912 (1965 Nebraska UP)
The Kingdom of Art (1967 Nebraska UP)
The World of the Parish : Articles & reviews 1893-1902 (1970 Nebraska UP)
Uncle Valentine & other Stories : Uncollected Short Fiction 1915-1929 (1973 Nebraska UP)
A Lost Lady (1983 Ltd Ed Club, NY) - William Bailey. Ltd Ed 1500
Willa Cather in Person (1987 Nebraska UP)
The Short Stories of Willa Cather (1989 Virago)
READING
Edward Killoran Brown & Leon Edel : Willa Cather - A Critical Biography (1953 Knopf)
Edith Lewis : Willa Cather Living (1953 Knopf)
Marion Marsh Brown & Ruth Crone : Willa Cather - The Woman & Her Works (1970 SCribner)
Bernice Slote : Willa Cather - A Pictorial Memoir (1973 Nebraska UP)
Phyllis Robinson : Willa - The Life of Willa Cather (1983 Doubleday)
Hermione Lee : Willa Cather - A Life Saved Up (1989 Virago)
(Ed) Guy Reynolds : Willa Cather - Critical Assessments (2004 Helm £375) - 4 vols in slipcase