Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1953, 1^st/1^st.  Hard cover, 197 pages.  Good minus; illustrated boards with green cloth spine; gilt lettering and decoration on spine.  Boards show some edge wear, a bit of soil, corners worn with some board exposed.  Binding sound with headbands.  No jacket.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘I have not tried in these pages to do more than set down the memories and impressions that came to me spontaneously out of my long friendship with Willa Cather; things I learned from Willa Cather herself, and her friends and family, and things taken from my own experience.’ (from Preface)