This beguiling and influential book is an overlooked gem, the book Jane Smiley in her introduction calls “the Cather work that moves me the most.” Originally published in 1923, it followed on the success of Cather’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel One of Ours and was held in high regard by F. Scott Fitzgerald who once admitted to H. L. Menken “in comparison to My Ántonia and The Lost Lady [sic] it [The Great Gatsby, 1925] is a failure.” The Arion edition features two paper-cut illustrations commissioned from San Francisco Bay Area artist and educator, Miriam Klein Stahl.

Production Details

• Limited edition of 200 numbered copies for sale, including 25 in a variant binding

• Small Quarto, 8 ⅝ by 6 ¼ inches, 144 pages

• Standard edition bound in paper imprinted in two colors over boards with blue cloth spine, in brown cardstock imprinted chemise

• Variant binding in paper imprinted in two colors over boards with brown goatskin spine, in handmade paper-and-cloth slipcase with spine label, is sold out

• Arion Press publication #117, 2020

A limited number of copies are available in sheets (unbound) for bookbinders at a 15% discount.

Read the full prospectus here.