"Composed, printed and bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts. Paper made by S.D. Warren Co., Boston, Massachusetts. The typography is based on designs by W.A. Dwiggins."--Colophon
Crane, J. Willa Cather, A22.a.i (trade issue)
NMAFRU copy 39088008592164 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, from the Ellis B. Haizlip collection.
NMAF copy 39088018683615 Gift of Barry Greenstein.
Contents:
Book I: Sapphira and her household -- Book II: Nancy and Till -- Book III: Old Jezebel -- Book IV: Sapphira's daughter -- Book V: Martin Colbert -- Book VI: Sampson speaks to the master -- Book VII: Nancy's flight -- Book VIII: The dark autumn -- Book IX: Nancy's return (Epilogue-twenty-five years later)
Summary:
Sapphira Colbert, a bitter but privileged white woman, begins to persecute a young slave named Nancy, whom she unjustly suspects of seducing her husband
