Death Comes for the Archbishop

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

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Hardcover. First edition. Contemporary gift inscription, else fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with a very short tear on the front panel, and a touch of age-toning at the spine of the off-white jacket. One of the nicest copies we've seen in recent years of Cather's classic character study of two Frenchmen trying to organize a Catholic Diocese on the frontier of New Mexico.

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Item #87879 Death Comes for the Archbishop. Willa CATHER.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather
birth name: Willa Sibert Cather
born: 12/7/1873
died: 4/24/1947
nationality: USA

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Biography

American novelist noted for her portrayals of frontier life on the American plains. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

All of the earliest of Cather's books are rare in dustjackets, and commensurately expensive. Especially prized are O Pioneers!, (1913 - with "Willa S. Cather" on the spine, later printings dropped the "S."), The Song of the Lark. (1915 - first issue lists three other titles by Cather on the copyright page), and My Antonia, (1918 - first state has illustrations on coated paper). One quirky book to look out for, supposedly edited by her, but actually largely written by Cather was The Life of Mary G. Baker Eddy and The History of Christian Science by Georgine Milmine (1909) is not usually so expensive, but of course, isn't so interesting as her fiction, either.

We also offer a comprehensive Willa Cather Bibliography and Price Guide.more