CATHER, WILLA. April Twilights. Boston: Richard A. Badger, The Gorham Press 1903. 8vo, original drab boards, printed paper labels; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by her in pencil on front free endpaper: "Jessie B. Rittenhouse from Willa Sibert Cather, March 19th 1913"; title-page in green and black. The recipient Jessie B. Rittenhouse was a poet and critic and author of My House of Life: an Autobiography (Boston, 1934), her recollections of early 20th-century poets; she was also the compiler of the Little Book of American Poets. Crane A1.a. A very good copy of Cather's only volume of verse, poems written while she was serving as an English teacher at a Pittsburgh high school.

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CATHER, WILLA. April Twilights. Boston: Richard A. Badger, The Gorham Press 1903. 8vo, original drab boards, printed paper labels; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by her in pencil on front free endpaper: "Jessie B. Rittenhouse from Willa Sibert Cather, March 19th 1913"; title-page in green and black. The recipient Jessie B. Rittenhouse was a poet and critic and author of My House of Life: an Autobiography (Boston, 1934), her recollections of early 20th-century poets; she was also the compiler of the Little Book of American Poets. Crane A1.a. A very good copy of Cather's only volume of verse, poems written while she was serving as an English teacher at a Pittsburgh high school.