Alexander's Bridge (Biographer's Copy)

Willa Cather

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, MA, 1922

About this Item

Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, MA. 1922. Hardcover. This is stated on the title page to be a "New Edition with a Preface" of the 1912 original thus it is a 2nd Edition. This book has a stamped signature on the title page of James Woodress, who used this book in his biography of Willa titled Willa Cather: A Literary Life (1987). The book is full of notations, underlining, and 3 loose paper notes about the 1912 and 1922 editions. The endpapers are full of his summations of the contents and meanings of the book. Book Condition: Fair; mostly due to the missing FFFP and the internal hinges being torn but not detached; wear to head, tail, and tips. No DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with suntanned spine and faint gilt lettering; tarnished gilt lettering on the front board. 174 pp 12mo. This was her first novel; a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections featuring high society on an international stage rather than the immigrant prairie characters she later became known for. Bartley Alexander is a world-renowned engineer and bridge builder, whose life begins to unravel when he encounters a former lover in London. As he shuttles among his wife in Boston, his old flame in London, and a massive bridge he is building in Canada, Alexander finds himself increasingly tormented. But the threatened collapse of his marriage presages a more fatal catastrophe, the collapse of the bridge which takes his life. A clean very presentable copy.

Seller Inventory # 012043

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alexander's Bridge (Biographer's Copy)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 1922
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Love, romance, relationships
  • Literature/Poetry