52 pp. (8vo) original boards, paper labels on front and spines. First Edition.

First edition of the author's first book. Badger's Gorham Press was a vanity press, and Cather contributed a substantial part of the cost for publication. In 1908, Cather bought the remainder of the first edition and destroyed it, permitting Knopf to publish a new edition in 1923 after removing 13 poems from the original contents and adding 12 new ones. This edition was not republished in its original form until 1962.