April twilights / poems by Willa Sibert Cather.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, author.

Contributor:

Badger, Richard G., publisher.

Gorham Press, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Bulger, William F. (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

52 pages, 4 unnumbered pages (the last 4 pages blanks) ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

Boston, U.S.A. : Printed at The Gorham Press.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903.

Contents:

Dedicatory

"Grandmither, Think Not I Forget"

In Rose Time

Asphodel

Mills of Montmartre

Arcadian Winter

The Hawthorn Tree

Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep

Fides, Spes

The Tavern

In Media Vita

Antinous

Paradox

Provençal Legend

Winter at Delphi

On Cyndus [sic]

The Namesake

Lament for Marsyas

White Birch in Wyoming

I Sought the Wood in Winter

Evening Song

Eurydice

The Encore

London Roses

The Night Express

Prairie Dawn

Aftermath

Thine Advocate

Poppies on Ludlow Castle

Sonnet

Thou Art the Pearl

From the Valley

I Have No House for Love to Shelter Him

The Poor Minstrel

Paris

Song

L'Envoi.

Notes:

First edition of the author's first book, and only collection of verse. "Badger's Gorham Press was a vanity press. The author contributed a substantial part of the cost for publication. In 1908, Willa Cather bought the remainder of the first edition and destroyed it. She permitted Knopf to publish a new edition in 1923 after removing 13 poems from the original contents and adding 12 new ones. Chronologically, the collected Autograph Edition volume (1937) followed with 2 more poems removed. Of the poems withdrawn, 2 were not reprinted until 1962 ..."--Crane.

Printer's device (with motto: Arti et veritati) on title page.

Title page printed in green and black.

Binding: Brown paper boards with cream paper labels on front cover and spine lettered in black.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has stamp of "William F. Bulger."

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has paper slip with partially illegible manuscript note ("Dear Mrs. S[...] I take pleasure in sending you a copy of the book you wish. It is out of print. Sincerely Willa Sibert Cather") affixed to front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy: fore- and tail edges untrimmed; housed in clamshell case.

Cited in:

Crane, J. Willa Cather: a bibliography, A1

Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 31

OCLC:

263998