[Rarebooks] FS: Willa Cather DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP, 1/175 Signed copies of the true First Edition

[Charles Agvent]

CATHER,  Willa.  DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP. New  York:  Knopf
1927.  First Edition. Original green cloth-backed marbled boards.  The
true  First  Edition  of this classic novel of the Southwest,  one  of
only  175  numbered  copies  SIGNED  by  the  author,  this  copy  not
numbered.  Based  on  the following inscription on the  recto  of  the
limitation  page,  this  copy was likely acquired  directly  from  the
printer:  "Agnes McNaught" and in an apparently different hand:  "from
Willa Cather/whom I met at/Plimpton Press." The name of Agnes Hackert,
in  the  same hand as the other (obviously one is a maiden  name),  on
the  front  pastedown.  Most  consider  this  book  Cather's  greatest
achievement.  Offsetting  to front pastedown and  endpaper,  otherwise
contents  quite fresh. Spine is dull with slight loss of cloth at  the
head  though  the leather label is intact and the gilt strong.  Boards
are  rubbed and worn along the edges. Good copy, lacking the slipcase.
                                                               $2500.00

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