One of Ours

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition. One of 310 numbered copies (of 345 total), this being number 81, printed on Perusia handmade Italian paper and signed by the author. 35 copies were printed on Japan vellum. Pp. [10], 459. Title printed in black and orange. Half linen over batik boards, paper spine label. Printed boards a bit faded at top edge, 3 corners just showing, very slight remnants from removed bookplate on inner cover, spine very slightly darkened. Spine label perfect. A fine and tight copy, uncut throughout. Cather's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. One of Ours is a portrait of a peculiarly American personality: it is the story of a young man born after the American frontier has vanished, yet whose quintessentially American restlessness seeks redemption on a frontier far bloodier and more distant than that which his forefathers had already tamed..