[Rarebooks] FS: First Trade Edition of DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP, Signed

[charles agvent]

Our March Catalogue will be posted on our web site tomorrow.  It 
features fine runs of H. L. Mencken and Thornton Wilder First 
Edtitions and Autographed material. Also featured is a signed book by 
golf legend Robert Jones and an extremely scarce signed First Trade 
Edition of Willa Cather's DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP, described 
below. Our list for April will celebrate the ABAA New York Book Fair, 
the greatest in the world, and will include some exceptional items.

CATHER, WILLA. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP. New York: Alfred Knopf 
1927. First Edition. Original green cloth with the first printing 
error on page 20. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper and 
quite scarce as such. There was aLimited Edition of 175 numbered and 
signed copies, but one rarely comes across a signed trade edition of 
this classic of American Literature. Only one copy has appeared at 
auction in the last 25 years, the Pforzheimer copyin 1987, that being 
inscribed to Carl Pforzheimer. The present copy is signed only and on 
an integral sheet of the book, not on a piece of paper added later. 
Contents clean and fresh; covers bright with sunning to the spine and 
darkening of the spine label. Very Good or better, lacking the scarce 
duswrapper.   $7500

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