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Cather, Willa Sibert. The Troll Garden. McClure, Phillips & Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Covers are detached but present. Lacks preliminary pages. Top spine end is missing. Covers have light wear to the outer corners and spine ends and a darkened spine. Faint cup-rings to the rear cover. ; First issue - page 21, line 2 "exculsive".
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa Sibert. THE TROLL GARDEN. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First Edition. Cover shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, edgewear, soiling, slight loss on the spine ends. Lacking dust jacket. Loose hinges. Pages are tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa Sibert. The Troll Garden. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1905.
Price: US$474.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is the original 1905 publication of Cather's first book of stories. This specific hardback book is in near fine condition with minimal wear and a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and a tight binding. There is some slight darkening to the spine area but the gold printed title block and publisher's info are all very legible. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. There is a slight blemish to the upper inside cover and a brownish colored outlined square is on the last blank end page and inside the rear cover. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "The Troll Garden" by Willa Cather contains some of her earliest writing. She had published a collection of poetry titled "April Twilights" a couple of years earlier, and there are a couple of earlier short stories which are not included in this collection, but other than that this is the earliest example of her writing. "The Troll Garden" includes seven stories which deal with the subject of art, in some way or another."; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 253 pages
Seller: Dr.Bookman - Books Packaged in Cardboard, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa Sibert. THE TROLL GARDEN. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1905.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Her second book, a collection of short stories. Bookplate of lawyer, stockbroker, and book collector Charles Auchincloss on front endpaper. Rear endpaper repaired at hinge otherwise very good with spine slightly darkened and a bit of rubbed crimping to spine ends but gilt stamping still quite strong.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa Sibert. The Troll Garden. McClure, Phillips & Co, New York, 1905.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 253 p. 20 cm. Burgundy cloth with gold print and blank impressing. Wrapped in mylar (removed for photo). Some thumbing to first pages. Ink note lower margins of pp. 23 and 25. Small nick in bottom of rear board. Pages a bit rough from cutting. P. 155-156 (title page for The Marriage of Phaedra) is a cancel in all copies. Cather's first collection of short stories is concerned with the role and status of artists in American society. The book was so well received that it led to her appointment as managing editor of McClure's Magazine.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Cather, Willa Sibert. THE TROLL GARDEN. McClure, Phillips & Co., NY, 1905.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 253 pages. 1st printing, with the McClure Phillips imprint at foot of spine and the misprint on page 21, line 2 of "exculsive". Corners bumped and lightly worn; spine ends lightly worn; a few uncut pages crudely opened. Very good in red vertical-ribbed cloth with front cover and spine lettering in gilt; front cover blind stamped. Very good. (102)
Seller: Colorado Pioneer Books, Centennial, CO, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa Sibert. The Troll Garden. McClure, Phillips & Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. First issue binding. Near Fine with light bruising to spine ends, a nick to the top edge of the front cover and two small scuffs to the cloth. Previous owner details to front free end paper. Rear hinge exposed, and with a possible former glue repair. A very striking copy of the author's second book.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. The Troll Garden. McClure, Phillips & Co, New York, 1905.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue with McClure Phillips & co at bootom of spine. 253 pp. Printed by the McClure Press. 1 vols. 12mo. Crane A4 Original red cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Very Good 253 pp. Printed by the McClure Press. 1 vols. 12mo First edition, first issue with McClure Phillips & co at bootom of spine.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. The Troll Garden.. McClure Phillips, New-York, 1905.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue of this classic collection of stories. Octavo, original publisher's dark red cloth. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. In near fine condition. Crane A4a. This collection of Willa Cather storiesâ"her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early careerâ"is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of the art world, artists, pseudo-artists, aficionados, and dilettantesâ"all are amply represented here in the midst of their foibles, grand affairs, and failures, drawn with great style and subtlety by a writer gathering her formidable powers. With the psychological precision of her early master Henry James and the practical wisdom and wit of her contemporary Edith Wharton, Cather shows us innocents seduced, sophisticates undone, marriages sundered, idealism compromised, and the rare soul uplifted by art.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. The Troll Garden. McClure, Phillips & Co and Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1905.
Price: US$1751.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: two copies presented in a leather and cloth solander box. a first edition first issue copy with minor restorations to the head and heel of the spine and a first edition 2nd issue in near fine condition. a handsome and most desireable presentation of the two first edition states of miss cather's second book.
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. The Troll Garden. McClure, Phillips, New York, 1905.
Price: US$35000.00 + shipping
Description: Original red cloth, a bright and fine copy in the rare dust jacket, slightly worn and darkened. First edition, second issue, with "Doubleday, Page & Co." at the foot of the spine. Cather's second book, and first collection of stories. Inscribed by Cather to the Cleveland bookseller H.V. Korner, "For H.V. Korner / Willa Cather [This book had a lonely life but it rose again. / W.S.C. October 31, 1925". The second issue came about after the dissolution of McClure, Phillips in 1906, when the remainder of the edition was acquired by Doubleday, who issued the original sheets in a new binding with their name on the spine. The dust jacket was unchanged and retains the McClure, Phillips name. From the Frederick B. Adams library, with bookplate. Crane A4.a.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.