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Death Comes for the Archbishop

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1929

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 2102810

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First illustrated edition. Owner bookplate on front flyleaf, otherwise an exceptional copy. 1929 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 343 pp. 8vo. Closely following the original 1927 printing, this edition was designed by Elmer Adler and printed by the Plimpton Press of Norwood, Massachusetts, on paper manufactured by Curtis and Brother of Newark, Delaware. Art deco illustrations by Harold Von Schmidt appear throughout, which were photo-engraved by Federal Photo-Engraving Corporation of New York. Willa Cather’s story of the missionary priest Father Jean Marie Latour and ...
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My Antonia (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $9.00

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press: 2003

Seller ID: 2272737

ISBN: 080326433X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Corner faintly stained. 2003 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, My Ántonia secured Willa Cather’s place in the first rank of American writers. Cather drew deeply on her childhood days in frontier Nebraska for her fourth novel, published in 1918. Ántonia Shimerda is memorable as the warm-hearted daughter of Bohemians who must adapt to a hard life on the desolate prairie. She survives and matures, a pioneer woman made radiant by spirit.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Modern Library)

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Modern Library: 1927

Seller ID: 2286806

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pencil names on rear free endpaper recto. 1927 Small Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 303 pp. 1931-1936 printing, (no bio page after text). Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. The novel was reprinted in the Modern Library series in 1931.[1] It was included in Life Magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924-1944.[2] It was also included on Time's 100 Best Englis...
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Modern Library)

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Modern Library: 1984

Seller ID: 2294929

ISBN: 0394605039

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket edges very lightly bumped. 1984 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 299 pp. Willa Cather’s story of the missionary priest Father Jean Marie Latour and his work of faith in the wilderness of the Southwest is told with a spare but sensuous directness and profound artistry. When Latour arrives in 1851 in the territory of New Mexico, newly acquired by the United States, what he finds is a vast desert region of red hills and tortured arroyos that is American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. Over the next four decades, Latour works gently and tireles...
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O Pioneers! -- Limited Edition, Westvaco Corporation, Christmas 2000 (Westvaco American Classics Series No. 43)

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Westvaco: 2000

Seller ID: 2299604

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lacks slipcase. Boards lightly rubbed. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 262 pp. Limited Westvaco Corporation Christmas 2000 edition. Original green cloth, gilt titles, blue ribbon marker, illustrated color endpapers, color illustration on title page. Enclosed in publisher's light olive decorative slipcase. O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather. It was written in part when Cather was living in Cherry Valley, New York with Isabelle McClung and was completed at the McClung's home in Pittsburgh. O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a fami...
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One of Ours

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1977

Seller ID: 2304819

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Edges of endpapers slightly faded, tiny blemish on bottom corner of front board. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 408 pp. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by David Blossom. Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to s...
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Image for The Work of Stephen Crane [in Twelve Volumes]: The Red Badge of Courage and The Veteran; Tales of Two Wars; The Monster and The Third Violet; Active Service; Whilomville Stories; The Black Riders and Other Lines; The O'Ruddy Part One [1]; The O'Ruddy Part Two [2]; Wounds in the Rain and Other Impressions of War; Major Conflicts: George's Mother, The Blue Hotel, Maggie; Midnight Sketches and Other Impressions; The Open Boat and Other Tales

The Work of Stephen Crane [in Twelve Volumes]: The Red Badge of Courage and The Veteran; Tales of Two Wars; The Monster and The Third Violet; Active Service; Whilomville Stories; The Black Riders and Other Lines; The O'Ruddy Part One [1]; The O'Ruddy Part Two [2]; Wounds in the Rain and Other Impressions of War; Major Conflicts: George's Mother, The Blue Hotel, Maggie; Midnight Sketches and Other Impressions; The Open Boat and Other Tales

By: Crane, Stephen; Follett, Wilson; Hergesheimer, Joseph; Davis, Robert H.; Van Doren, Carl; Phelps, William Lyon; Lowell, Amy; Beer, Thomas; Cather, Willa; Mencken, H.L.; Anderson, Sherwood; Michelson, Charles

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf / The Plimpton Press: 1925

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 2281665

ISBN: 0895771551

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition, #158 of 750 copies. All volumes include slipcases. All books are near fine, slipcases are good to very good. A piece of the Volume X slipcase spine has come loose but is included, and a couple other slipcases have minor splits along seams. For reasons that are unclear, the first two slipcases, though numbered the same as the rest, are of a different design (it is possible the labels were removed from the original slipcases and replacements were made, but there is no evidence of this that we can see). With a small bit of restoration, this could be a beautiful set. 1925 Hard Cov...
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Author:Cather, Willa

Death Comes for the Archbishop

My Antonia (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)

Death Comes for the Archbishop (Modern Library)

Death Comes for the Archbishop (Modern Library)

O Pioneers! -- Limited Edition, Westvaco Corporation, Christmas 2000 (Westvaco American Classics Series No. 43)

One of Ours

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