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CATHER, Willa. The Troll Garden. New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1905.
8o. Original red blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine (slight wear to ends of spine, upper hinge weak). Provenance: Louise Pound (signature on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Louise Pound was an intimate friend of Willa Cather's during her days at the University of Nebraska. A brilliant scholar and athlete, Louise was also very beautiful and feminine; a sharp contrast to Willa's masculine style of dress and demeanor. Willa became infatuated with Louise when they were thrown together as associate editors of the campus magazine, the Lasso. She fell in love for the first time in her life, though there exists much debate as to whether Louise returned the affection with as much passion and feeling with which it was given. The relationship ended abruptly 2½ years later possibly because Willa wrote an unflattering lampoon thought to be about Louise's brother, Roscoe Pound, for the undergraduate publication, the Hesperian. Willa became unwelcome in the Pound's home, and although they would still correspond throughout Willa's life, she and Louise were never as close as they were during those early days in Lincoln. -- James Woodress, Willa Cather. A Literary Life. University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
[Laid-in:] An autograph letter signed from Mary S. Churchill to Louise Pound, New York, Jan. 28, 1952, requesting information from Louise for a biography she is writing about Willa Cather.
8o. Original red blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine (slight wear to ends of spine, upper hinge weak). Provenance: Louise Pound (signature on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Louise Pound was an intimate friend of Willa Cather's during her days at the University of Nebraska. A brilliant scholar and athlete, Louise was also very beautiful and feminine; a sharp contrast to Willa's masculine style of dress and demeanor. Willa became infatuated with Louise when they were thrown together as associate editors of the campus magazine, the Lasso. She fell in love for the first time in her life, though there exists much debate as to whether Louise returned the affection with as much passion and feeling with which it was given. The relationship ended abruptly 2½ years later possibly because Willa wrote an unflattering lampoon thought to be about Louise's brother, Roscoe Pound, for the undergraduate publication, the Hesperian. Willa became unwelcome in the Pound's home, and although they would still correspond throughout Willa's life, she and Louise were never as close as they were during those early days in Lincoln. -- James Woodress, Willa Cather. A Literary Life. University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
[Laid-in:] An autograph letter signed from Mary S. Churchill to Louise Pound, New York, Jan. 28, 1952, requesting information from Louise for a biography she is writing about Willa Cather.