April Twilights: Poems by Willa Sibert Cather. SIGNED 1st ed.

April Twilights: Poems by Willa Sibert Cather. Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover issued without dust jacket. Good/Fair. Chipping to backstrip and bi-color paper label on front board. Previous owner’s bookplate on verso of front board. Mild foxing. Pages clean and unmarked. SIGNED by Cather. A scarce signed edition of this beloved Nebraska author’s first book. Although Mark Twain appreciated her poem, The Palatine, reviews were mixed. According to Cather scholar Bernice Slote, Cather purchased the remaining copies of the book and destroyed them.