Willa Cather | "Youth and The Bright Medusa," first edition
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Willa Cather
Youth and the Bright Medusa. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920
8vo. Half-title; minor browning. Original publisher's green cloth, cover pictorially printed and lettered in blue; extremities rubbed, owne😼rship inscription to front pastedown. In folding clamshell case.
First edition. The first appearance of "Coming, Aphrodite!" In a 1998 interview with the New York Times, Joanne Woodward noted that Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart was her favorite work of literature.