Sapphira and the Slave Girl: A Novel

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x1. Second printing before publication. One inch tear to jacket spine, jacket spine toned, rear jacket panel lightly soiled. Cloth spine faded, one page edge chipped. 1940 Hard Cover. ciii, 295 pp. Original green cloth hardcover binding, paper title panels on front cover & spine. Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in Virginia just before the Civil War. Sapphira is a slave owner who feels she has come down in the world and channels her resentments into jealousy of her beautiful mulatto slave, Nancy. Sapphira's daughter Rachel, an abolitionist, opposes her mother's increasingly shocking attempts to persecute Nancy. The struggles of these three strong-willed women provide rich material for Cather's narrative art and psychological insight.