One of Ours, Willa Cather, Alfred A. Knopf, 1922, 1st Trade Ed, 2nd Printing, VG

Cather, Willa. One of Ours (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922).

English, First Trade Edition, Second Printing, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 7 1/2" x 5 1/2," 459 pp.

ISBN: N/A

First Trade Edition, Second Printing. Very Good brown cloth-covered boards with orange and black lettering on front and spine. Covers have slight bumping and general wear to tips, edges, and head and tail of spine, else clean and intact, binding tight. Pages have light age toning and a small note tipped in on front free endpaper, else clean and intact. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Willa Cather (1873-1947), an American author. The story is about Claude Wheeler, the son of a Nebraskan farmer who is struggling to find his purpose in life. He finds that purpose with the onset of World War I. Upon the United States' entry into the war, Wheeler readily enlists. A significance influence on Cather's novel was the death of her cousin, Grosvenor P. Cather, who was killed in 1918 while serving in France.