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IMPORTANT MODERNIST WORK
 CATHER,
WILLA.
The Professor's House
"The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined
world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around
us." -Rebecca West
"I'm trying to cut out all analysis, observation, description, even the
picture-making quality, in order to make things and people tell their
own story simply by juxtaposition, without any persuasion or explanation
on my part." -Willa Cather
FIRST EDITION of one of Cather's most accomplished and influential
novels; a touchstone modernist work. With her stylistic and thematic
daring, Cather, in The Professor's House, "places herself in
the company of Proust, Lawrence, Eliot, and Virginia Woolf" in her
influence on the modern movement (Hermione Lee, Willa Cather: Double
Lives).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. Octavo, original cloth, original dust
jacket. Toning to endpapers and light rubbing at spine ends; rare dust
jacket with light edgewear and a little soiling. $2000.
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