Death comes for the archbishop / by Willa Cather.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

Contributor:

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

Rare Books Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Clergy--Fiction.

Clergy.

New Mexico--Fiction.

New Mexico.

Hopi Indians--Fiction.

Hopi Indians.

Navajo Indians--Fiction.

Navajo Indians.

Catholic Church--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Authors' autographs.

Limitation statements.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

x unnumbered pages, 303 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition, [limited edition].

Manufacture:

Norwood, Mass. : Plimpton Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

Summary:

Set in the mid-nineteenth century, this is the story of two priests who set out to win the Southwest for Catholicism.

Notes:

"The first edition of Death comes for the archbishop consists of twenty thousand two hundred twenty-five copies as follows: fifty on Japan Vellum signed by the author and numbered 1 to 50; one hundred seventy-five on Borzoi all rag paper signed by the author and numbered 1 to 175; and twenty thousand copies on Mellow Book Laid paper."--P. [ii].

Issued in slip case.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy is no. 59 in a limited edition of 20,225 copies of which 175 are on Borzoi all rag paper, numbered, and signed by the author.

Schimmel Collection copy has paper slip with bookseller's typescript description of this copy laid in; two color-illustrated postcards, each 9 x 14 cm., 1 with picture of St. Francis Cathedral, Santa Fe, N.M., and 1 with picture of San Miguel Church, Santa Fe, N.M., laid in.

Schimmel Collection copy without slip case.

Athenaeum copy: One of 175 copies on rag paper signed by the author. "This is number 69."

Athenaeum copy: In slipcase.

Athenaeum copy: Sinkler bequest.

Cited in:

Crane, J. Willa Cather: a bibliography, A16.a.i (limited issue)

OCLC:

8743739