[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Willa Cather First Edition YOUTH AND THE BRIGHT MEDUSA

[Charles Agvent]

CATHER, Willa. YOUTH AND THE BRIGHT MEDUSA. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 
1920. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the 
half-title page: "For Eddie Wassermann/Willa Cather." There are many 
references to Wassermann in the literary memoirs of Carl Van Vechten, 
mostly dining with luminaries such as Gertrude Stein, Zora Hurston, 
James Weldon Johnson, and many others. Scarce title to find signed. 
Owner Christmas 1920 inscription on the front endpaper below a dark 
adhesive stain. Light wear, lettering on the spine dulled. Very Good, 
lacking the scarce dustwrapper. (#018366)        $2,000.00

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