Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Cather, Willa. SHADOWS ON THE ROCK. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$7.75 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1931, 280pp, cover heavily worn, spine is separating at rear & has been taped to hold it on, inner hinges are broken, binding is slightly cocked, no dj, a few pgs w/ some smudging, but contents are mostly clean, consider this a reading/research copy.
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1931.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book is very good with some edge wear, bumped corners, light soiling to cloth and two previous owners names on ffep.
Seller: M. W. Cramer Rare and Out Of Print Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Willa Cather. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$12.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st ed. Good copy, foxing to cloth covers, ffep removed and starting slightly at front, otherwise clean and tight, no jacket
Seller: Object Relations, IOBA, London, United Kingdom
CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$12.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No DJ. XLib with card holder attached inside front cover. Book shows common (average) signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Covers are intact but may be repaired. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed!
Seller: Bank of Books, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Minor shelf wear to binding. Gilt lettering & decoration on boards lightly scuffed. Light wear on edges of text block. Small abrasions on front pastedown & endpaper. Vintage bookshop label on ffep. Previous owners bookplate on rear endpaper. Dj lightly shelf worn with creases, small stains & tears. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.
Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: Inked in name/date, owner's blind stamp, very slight lean, still fine in edge worn and chipped dust jacket, in mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
CATHER, WILLA. SHADOWS ON THE ROCK. ALFRED A . KNOPF, NY, 1931.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: STATED FIRST EDITION, SUNNING TO SPINE AREA.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.57 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 280 (2) Seiten mit einer Vignette. Guter Zustand. Buchrücken verblasst. Aus dem Besitz der Gräfin Ledebur mit geprägtem Monogramm (Krone) auf dem Vorsatz. - Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 April 24, 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, then at the age of 33 she moved to New York, where she lived for the rest of her life. . Writing influences: Cather admired Henry James as a "mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives." She generally preferred past literary masters to contemporary writers. Some particular favorites were Dickens, Thackeray, Emerson, Hawthorne, Balzac, Flaubert, and Tolstoy. While Cather enjoyed the novels of George Eliot, the Brontës, and Jane Austen, she regarded most women writers with disdain, judging them overly sentimental and mawkish. Cather's biographer James Woodress notes that Cather "so completely . embraced masculine values that when she wrote about women writers, she sounded like a patronizing man." One contemporary exception was Sarah Orne Jewett, who became Cather's friend and mentor. Jewett advised Cather to use female narrators in her fiction, but Cather preferred to write from a male point of view. Jewett also encouraged Cather to write about subjects that had "teased the mind" for years. Chief among these subjects were the people and experiences Cather remembered from her years in Nebraska. She dedicated O Pioneers!, the first novel in her Prairie Trilogy, to Jewett. . Aus: en-wikipedia-Willa_Cather Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 560 Grünes Leinen mit Vorsatzpapier, montiertem Rücken- und Deckelschild und Kopffarbschnitt. Eigth Printing. Im Jahr der Erstausgabe.
Seller: BOUQUINIST, München, BY, Germany
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good with fair dust jacket. Private circulating library sticker on front endpaper. Dust jacket has a one inch piece missing at top of spine, is worn and torn at bottom of spine and is worn at the corners. 280 pages.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows On The Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$18.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early printing of Cather's novel that explores one year in the life of a family of colonists in Quebec at the turn of the 18th Century. Not a stated first edition, the book's publication information is curiously listed as "Published August 1931; First and Second Printings before Publication; Third Printing, August, 1931". Copy is in good to very good condition. Minimal wear to the green cloth boards, though there is some sunning to the boards where the dust jacket loss has exposed them to sunlight. Interior is clean and unmarked save for dated gift inscription on the front free end paper. Binding solid and tight. Dust jacket is fair with some loss to the top and, more extensively, the base of the spine. Jacket is now wrapped in protective Brodart cover.
Seller: The Merrickville Book Emporium, Merrickville, ON, Canada
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New york, 1931.
Price: US$18.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Green cloth hardcover in very good condition, light soil. 280 pgs.
Seller: Bookman's Cafe, New Philadelphia, OH, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rocks. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: 280 p. cover edges are worn and the front and rear hinge have been taped. corners bumped. there are 3 interesting newspaper clippings inside about Willa Cater.
Seller: Nelsons Books, Chazy, NY, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fifth printing in the same year as the first edition. Green cloth, printed paper labels on front and spine. Owner's decorative bookplate on front pastedown, spine a bit cocked and faded, thus good only.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First and second printings before publication (essentially a second printing). Front pastedown chipped at hinge, board edges faded, spine ends and corners bumped, spine browned with a few spots, good only. A historical novel focused on a father, daughter and other French colonists in late 1600s Quebec.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First and second printings before publication (essentially a second printing). Spine sunned, label soiled, name erased on front pastedown, a near very good copy lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First and second printings before publication (essentially a second printing). Owner name on front pastedown, cloth modestly soiled, spine sunned and cocked, very good lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fifth printing in the same year as the first edition. Green cloth, printed paper labels on front and spine. Ex-library with the usual markings, lacking front fly, spine sunned, dampstain on front board and spine, good only lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$26.68 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Acceptable condition. Dampstained. Hinge cracked pages 154 - 155.
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1931.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1931. "Published August 1931 First and Second Printings before Publication" stated. Lacks "First Edition" statement. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, textured white, straight and square, with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full green cloth with sunning to spine and perimeter of boards (as is usual with this title), title and author paste-ons to front board and spine, damp-stain to lower spine and bottoms of boards, all corners square, hinges intact, prior owner's signature to front free endpaper, and tiny bookseller's sticker and date (7/20/31) to rear endpaper. No Dust Jacket. See photos. 280 + i pages. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4". An historical novel set in 1697-1698 in the colony of New France, now Quebec, the main characters, a father and daughter, interact with historical figures such as Count de Frontenac, Bishop Laval and Bishop Saint-Vallier.
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
Willa Cather.. Shadows on the Rock.. Alfred A. Knopf: Borzoi Books, New York, NY, 1931.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition (1931); so stated. Good: shows a small faint dampstain to the lower corner of the front panel and a thin line of staining along the top edge of same; sunning to the backstrip (the titles remain bold and clearly legible); toning to the outside edges of the front panel and sunning to the top edge of the rear panel, common for Cather's novels published in green cloth; moderate wear to the extremities; a former owner's rubber-stamped design at the upper corner of the front free endpaper; the binding leans slightly but remains secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A carefully-used copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing moderate wear and numerous cosmetic flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.75 x 5.35 x 1.25 inches). 280 pages. Language: English. Weight: 19 ounces. Green buckram over boards with pastedown title panels at the front panel and backstrip. Deckle fore-edge. Hardback: Lacks DJ. Shadows on the Rock is a novel by the American writer Willa Cather, published in 1931. The novel covers one year of the lives of Cecile Auclair and her father Euclide, French colonists in Quebec. Like many of Cather's books, the story is driven by detailed portraits of the characters, rather than a narrative plot. Cather won the
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 5th printing. Green cloth over boards. Tanned on edges and spine. Paper pastedown labels on cover and spine. Foxing on endpapers and page edges. Name in pencil on front endpaper. Stamp on rear endpaper. DJ chipped on edges and corners. Shows wear and soiling. In archival cover.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 10mo; G+/G; tanned beige spine with brown text; stated first edition; dust jacket exterior shows fairly slight wear; spine has darkened, due to age; minor edge wear; clear protective wrap to jacket; cloth has mild, general wear; sunned spine; good binding; text block exterior edges have slightly age toned; interior good; pp 280. 1366537. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred Knopf; NY; 1931/1931/5th, 1931.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: ; 280p pp.; dj; F/F; The third issue jacket with the quote from Wilbur Cross replacing that of Alfred Knopf on the front panel. This issue is always associated with later p Crane's was with a seventh printing book, vs a fifth printing here. . . Reprint.Bk.&.DJ. [kwA_ 1st Ed. ]
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$32.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover; no dustjacket. First Edition stated; SD, NAP. "Compliments of the Publisher" inked on the front flyleaf, followed by a difficult-to-read signature. The last name is likely "Jaeger"; the first may be "Carl", but is difficult to decipher. Typical sunning to the spine. Sunning, and some faint freckling around the perimeter of the boards. VERY slight spine twist. Page edges somewhat age-toned. Couple small spots on the front endpapers. Previous owners name inked on the front pastedown. Else pages clean. ; 27A; 7-1/2" x 5-1/2"; 280 pages
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa.. Shadows on the Rock.. 1931, 1931.
Price: US$33.04 + shipping
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. 8vo. Orig. green cloth (spine faded). Dec. paper title-label on front cover and spine. In slightly chipped and discoloured dustjacket. (vi, 280pp.). Uncut. 1st ed.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, Sydney, 1931.
Price: US$43.61 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Pale orange coloured tint to the top text edge. Plaintext dustwrapper with dark red coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Set in the 17th century Quà bec and deals with the lives of two French colonists, Cecile Auclair and her father Euclide, over a 12 month period. A little bumping to the lower book corners with softening of the back strip edges. Sunning to the back strip and fading of the front edge of the front panel. Very light age toning of the text block edges and pages with staining of the front end page due to newspaper clipping being inserted. The dustwrapper is in two pieces, being front panel and fold over has come away from the rest of the dustwrapper. Chipping, to the dustwrapper corners and edges with the lower half of the back strip missing and a little missing to the top edge. Creasing and some tears to the dustwrapper edges with very noticeable sunning also present. A little sunning to the verso. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 3 - 280 [2] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Canada; 17th century; Inventory No: 0290465.
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Cather, Willa. Shadows On The Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 280pp. Green linen boards with printed title labels pasted to spine and front board. Spine sunned Southern Fiction. Brown dye top edges. Willa Cather 1873-1947 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall August, 1931 1st & 2nd Printing Before P.
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: And overall very good copy with very few imperfections. Front hinge is a little weak but intact. Back hinge strong. Binding solid. Covers are very clean with some minor warping to the front board. No fraying, foxing, or Browning. Very clean inside. Let me know if you have any questions or if you desire more photos. Thank you.
Seller: SweeneySells, Mansfield Center, CT, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This book has been bound in a medium green cloth with paper title labels. There is corner bumping and edge wear. The top edge of the spine has a tear but the material has not been removed. There is spotting on the outside of the spine. An owner's name has been inked on the front end paper. The text has yellowed with age but is clean and solid in it's binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Stated first edition. Cather's enchanting novel about colonial Quebec. As usual for all Cather's novels in green cloth, the spine and top edges are faded, and the dust jacket is toned at the spine. Dust jacket has 1/4 inch chip at top of spine, otherwise a fine copy.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rocks. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York, U. S. A., 1931.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This first edition has been bound in a light green with title labels on the front cover - upper third & spine. Spine has sun fade, wear on the foot and head, chipping of label. There is surprising little corner bumping or edge wear. Upper edge of the text is tinted. Owner's book label on front end paper, this has shadowed the front paste-down. Text is clean and tight in binding. No cocking or seperation. Hinges are solid. A very nice copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first edition book in like dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards are sunned around all edges. Spine is especially faded. Head and tail of spine are creased. Slight foxing on the back paste down and end papers, else book is internally clean and snug. Dust jacket is faded around all edges and folds and spine is heavily sunned. Head of jacket spine is chipped and creased with loss of 1/4" by 1/4" on the back corner and a 1/6" closed tear on the front corner. Tail of spine is rubbed with several closed tears of 1/8" or less. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. SHADOWS ON THE ROCK. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First trade edition. In green cloth with orange and black printed title labels inset into the front cover and spine; pale green printed dust jacket. Mild spine slant, a hint of fading at the very edges of the covers, bookplate to pastedown, thus near fine; in an about near fine dust jacket, showing some darkening to spine panel, a few tiny nicks and short edge tears, some rubbing at folds. The setting is for Miss Cather a new one--Quebec, in the last years of Frontenac's life--and she recaptures the very tone and feeling of the 17th century."--Alfred Knopf. First issue dust jacket with Knopf's facsimile signature to front and rear panels.
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. ALFRED A. KNOPF, NEW YORK, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Glassine Dust Jacket. Bookplate is on front free endpage. general wear and rubbed cover. Tight binding. No markings. DATE PUBLISHED: 1931 EDITION: FIRST ED 280
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
CATHER, WILLA.. Shadows on the Rock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Willa Cather.. Shadows on the Rock.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf., 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. [ca 280 pp.]. First Edition. Good. Hard Cover. Green cloth covered boards. Spine sunned, with tear at foot and head of spine. Boards work, faded and some staining. Previous owner's name on inside pages. Else, pages fine. Deckled pages. Extremely scarce. Shadows on the Rock is a novel by the American writer Willa Cather, published in 1931. The novel covers one year of the lives of Cecile Auclair and her father Euclide, French colonists in Quebec. Like many of Cather's books, the story is driven by detailed portraits of the characters, rather than a narrative plot.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. SHADOWS ON THE ROCK. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$79.95 + shipping
Description: Good in boards. Soiling to front and rear panels. Spine sunned and soiled. First and Second printing before publciation. ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Cather, Wila. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY U.S.A, 1931.
Price: US$81.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The author follows a little twelve year-old girl, in 1697, who calls the rock of Quebec, home. She doesn't feel the isolation of many of the settlers, but enjoys Governor Frontenac as he entertains children in his palace. As Cather follows this devout and resourceful child over the course of a year, she re-creates the continent as it must have appeared to its first European inhabitants. 280 pages. Willa Sibert Cather (born Wilella Sibert Cather; 1873–1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. Cather achieved recognition as a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience. She wrote of the spirit of those settlers moving into the western states, many of them European immigrants in the nineteenth century. Common themes in her work include nostalgia and exile. A sense of place is an important element in Cather's fiction: physical landscapes and domestic spaces are for Cather dynamic presences against which her characters struggle and find community. Hardcover has light green cloth boards with paper sticker title/autor pasted spine and front. No DJ. Interior is clean and unmarked, but front hinge broken and pasted on front end-paper is the poem "Poor Marty" by Wila Cather (reprinted from "The Atlantic Monthly"?). Copyright 1931. Stated First edition. Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, 1931 on title page. Stated published and 3rd printing August 1931, first edition. (Printings 1 & 2 were pre-publication printings) Manufactured in U.S.A. No ISBN, LCCN nor MSR.
Seller: Bargain Finders of Colorado, Simla, CO, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. SHADOWS ON THE ROCK. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$84.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Wear to spine, slight weakening to front hinge. FIRST AND SECOND PRINTINGS BEFORE PUBLICATION. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock [Hardcover] Cather, Willa. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$96.41 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 11.75
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. SHADOWS ON THE ROCK. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$148.27 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Paper residue on FEP from removal. First Edition, as stated. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good, spine sunned, prior owner bookplate front paste down hiden by front flap, in a Very Good dust jacket, spine faded from peach to brown, a few small chips at edges and corners. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Cather,Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition ( with statement to that effect on copyright page ) published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1931. Bound in publisher's bright green cloth. A very good example of the book with a bit of the fading to the cloth edges that tends to plague this title ( spine also a touch faded. ) Bears the ownership signature of Dorothy Moore, dated 8/20/31. Dust jacket very good with toning to the spine and a bit of chipping at the spine head.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth, blue decorative paper labels mounted to spine and upper cover, pale grey decorative dust jacket printed in red; [6],280pp. Jacket spine quite toned with shallow losses to ends not affecting text, else Very Good and sound. Jacket variant not described in Crane, this with "Willa" and "Cather" printed on separate lines on spine panel. CRANE A17a.i.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Green cloth, titled on blue paper labels on spine and front, dull orange topstain, in tan dust jacket printed in red; [vi],280,[2]pp. A straight copy wth minor fading to spine through jacket, Very Good. Jacket toned at panels, spine, and upper edges of flaps, with large chip at head and a few short marginal tears, generally around Very Good. CRANE A17.a.1.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Covers edgworn, with sunned spine. Dust jacket edgeworn and chipped.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$187.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 280pp. First Trade edition. Green cloth boards with coloured paper title label to the front board and spine. The boards fresh and bright, the spine a little sunned, more at the spine ends, clean and unmarked througout, the binding tight and square. Dust jacket with little chips at the corners, with shallow chipping to the spine head, with a couple of very short closed tears to the edges, spine sunned with light crease lines visible. A nice clean copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Cather, Willa. SHADOWS ON THE ROCK.. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$199.89 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description:
Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Clean bright copy with very pleasing dj with only small chip and several closed tears to upper and lower back panel; small closed tears to top of front panel; dj printing is rose; there are also green printed versions with no apparent priority; very attractive dj and book for a 1931 1st Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine in gilt orange boards, corners a bit bum
Seller: The Book Den, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Willa Cather *SIGNED LIMITED EDITON 23/194*. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Issued in Original gilt-stamped stiff orange Shidzouka Japan vellum (mottled), with a gilt title on spine and gilt decorations. Some loss to the gilt to the top of page ends. 1/2" horizontal discoloration across the top of the front boards. Else near fine. First edition, #29 of 199 copies, of which 194 are for sale. Printed on Shidzuoka Japan Vellum and signed by author. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Sleuth Books, FABA, Palm Coast, FL, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. SHADOWS ON THE ROCK. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$274.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Small "Willa Cather" stamp on front pastedown. Owner name inked on FEP. Soiling on panel edges and spine. Small stain on top text block edge. Spine cocked. Small closed tears on spine heel. Light fraying on spine crown.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. Shadows on the Rock Signed, Limited Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: #47 of 619 First Edition copies signed by the author. Marbled boards with gilt-stamped leather laabel on spine, are iexcellent. Text block is intact, binding is very tight, pages on Croxley hand made paperr are clean and bright showing only a touch of light foxing on endpapers as well as title page. Deckled edges and gilt top edge show foxing. Original jacket is present with edgewear and a tear atop spine. It is now protected in mylar. Will be carefully packaged and shipped with tracking and insurance. Photos available upon request. Size: 88vo
Seller: Dogtales, Copake, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a fine hardcover signed copy number 536 of 619 copies. marbled boards and spine, untrimmed edges, no DJ or slipcase. Set up, electrotyped, printed and bound by Plimpton Press . Croxley paper made by John Dickinson & Co. LTD, London. TEG, Leather spine label. A lovely copy, photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa.. Shadows on the Rock.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 280 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Tiny ink stamp to rear pastedown; small leather book label on front pastedown; else a fine copy in a very bright jacket with two short closed tears and one tiny chip.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. SHADOWS ON THE ROCK. Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1931.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 20 pp. Original gilt-stamped orange vellum (mottled), gilt title on spine; endpapers a little soiled, bookplate on front pastedown, else very good. First edition, 1/199 copies printed on Shidzuoka Japan Vellum and signed by author. Crane A17.
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$310.00 + shipping
Description: HBDJ, 1931, stated 1st edition, published with no price on DJ by publisher, Green cloth with Titled Paper Label, minor sun Spine DJ & Cover, Minor Rub & tiny chips & small mended tear DJ, VG+/VG, AS-IS
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: No. 161 of 199 signed, numbered copies. Printed on Shidzuoka Japan vellum. No slipcase. A near fine copy.
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock [Advance Review Copy]. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Advance Review Copy in original publisher's printed wrappers. Cather's well received Canadian set historical novel of 17th Century Quebec. Seldom found in an advance state, this copy with "First Edition" statement at copyright page. Very Good or better in wrappers.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa.. Shadows on the Rock.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 280 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth with paper labels in dust jacket. First edition. A very good copy with the usual browning to the spine and edges of the green cloth. This copy was clearly exposed to some moisture, and there are some minor signs of this on the front cover and some of the pages. There is no tidemark or stain on the text leaves, which are just slightly cockled; the green cloth has been slightly yellowed at the lower right quadrant of the front cover. The jacket has some minor chipping at the edges and the extremities of the spine. Signed by Willa Cather on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931, 1931.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Published in New York by Alfred A. Knopf in 1931. First Edition is printed on copyright page. Book fine. DJ fine except for slight wearing on top and bottom edges of spine and tiny tear on top edge of spine. Book comes in specially made cloth slip cover.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. SHADOWS ON THE ROCK. Alfred A. Knopf: NY, 1931.
Price: US$402.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 9.25 x 6", gilt-dec stiff wraps (made to look like leather), 280pp, covers extremity-worn and extremity-bumped, contents toned, ink name and date from former owner inside front cover else a good copy. LIMITED TO 199 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #104), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WILLA CATHER.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fine hardcover, limited first edition Marbled Boards, gilt topedge, ribbon bookmark, designed by Pierre Simon Fournier Paper made by John Dickinson & Co, Ltd of London
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fourth printing, published in same month as the first printing. Green cloth very faded on spine, and lightly faded on covers else a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by Cather on the front fly: "To Shirley from Willa Cather."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (tall). A very good- copy with sunning, slight rubbing and fading to spine; slight wear to extremities (chiefly to lower edges and corners; some wear to gilt on top edges); slight warping and rubbing to covers; lacks most of original bookmarker; previous owner's ink signature and inscription on front free endpaper; slight internal browning (chiefly to edges and preliminaries). [8], 280, [2] pages. Historical romance, set in 17th century eastern Canada. One of 199 copies bound in full orange vellum and printed on Shidzuoka Japan vellum (of which 194 were for sale; total limited edition numbered 818; this is number 181), signed by Cather on limitation page. See Johnson/Blanck, page 97. Bound in full orange vellum, gilt-stamped and decorated spine and covers, plain endpapers, t.e.g., remaining edges untrimmed, orange silk bookmarker.Decorative Title Page (gray/black).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. , 1931.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Original cloth with printed paper labels, dust jacket. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First edition. Fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. No. 70 of 199 copies (of which 194 are for sale) printed on Shidzuoka Japan Vellum, signed by the author. [viii], 280, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Limited Signed Edition. Crane A.17.a.i Orange limp vellum with beveled edges with paper wrapper, fine. In repaired green paper over boards box [viii], 280, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition. No. 70 of 199 copies (of which 194 are for sale) printed on Shidzuoka Japan Vellum, signed by the author.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
CATHER, WILLA.. Shadows on the Rock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931, 1931.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; limited issue; one of 619 numbered and signed copies. Near fine in a dust jacket with some browning and in a very good publisher's slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ____".700 copies were bound in wrappers made up of a trial dust jacket for distribution as advance review copies._____ In all review copies examined, the copyright notice is "SECOND EDITION", and this statement is seen in no other printing._____ This was an error, rectified by a stop-press correct, early in the pressrun._____ It may be argued that the advance review copy, therefore, is the true first edition.A piece of minor evidence exists to support the chronological precedence.the back cover of the jacket wrapper has.Knopf's name in print rather than the facsimile signature as it appears on the trade issue jackets._____ Also, the wrapper is printed in black rather than red, as were later jackets -- obviously an earlier trial jacket."--Crane A.17.a.i. (p.157). _____ The paper over the spine is darkened and chipped. _____
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed, limited edition #376/619 signed by Cather; very attractive marbled boards with leather spine label; original red box present but only in fair condition; book is printed on Croxley hand made paper and very attractive Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows On The Rock. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 8vo. Lime green cloth with cover and spine paste on labels printed in black. Paste ons in nice condition with no chips or abrasions, a small spot on top edge of cover paste on and a small spot on top edge of front cover. Spine and cover edges adjacent to spine sunned to a lighter green, top edges of covers lightly sunned, a few sun spots on rear cover. Last 16 pages of text have a small brown spot on top edge.The limited edition of this title, as well as many other titles by Cather, are fairly easy to come by. Not so with signed trade editions, such as this, Cather's first bestseller. Signed inscription on front flyleaf dated October 29 1931 addressed to Mr Harry or Harvey Mason. First edition 6th printing October 1931. Dust jacket is about VG with fold edges toned, a chip to upper front corner, rear panel with a couple small closed edge tears and an abrasion on top edge. In protective mylar cover. PayPal accepted.
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Tall octavo, linen marbled cloth in green-blue, dark blue, and red-brown; beveled edges; red-brown spine label lettered in gilt; heavy cream laid stock dust jacket; worn publisher's slipcase. Limited edition. One of 619 numbered copies, printed on Croxley hand-made paper, and signed by Cather. Crane A17.a.i. A superb copy.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, trade issue. [vi], 280, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with paper labels, red topstain. Sunned spine and toning to endpapers, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket, pale green variant lettered in red (no priority). Jacket in wonderful shape, bright and clean. Historical fiction by the American author set in Quebec. Crane A17.a.i. Ahearn APG 018a.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue, trade issue, in the first issue rose-colored dustwrapper (one of two colors, no priority). Spine a bit sunned as usual, thus near fine in fine dustwrapper with a tear on the front panel. A beautiful copy. Ex-collection of Tony Bill.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first trade issue, in the first issue lilac-colored dust jacket (one of two colors, no priority, but the lilac variant appears to be the scarcer of the two). The very slightest of sunning at the extremities, still fine in fine dust jacket. A superlative copy, likely the nicest we've seen.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.