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)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clergy--Fiction.

Clergy.

New Mexico--Fiction.

New Mexico.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 1 & 2)

Hershon, Selvin (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

McQuoid, R. M. (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 303 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Library, [between 1931 and 1933]

Notes:

"Cather ... agreed in 1929 to allow the publishers of the recently formed Modern Library to reprint Death comes for the archbishop. The Modern Library was to print at least 35,000 copies ... The first of these Modern Library printings (K1.xxviii), from state c of the Knopf first-edition plates, appeared in September 1931; the fourth and last Modern Library printing was in July 1933."--Mignon, C.W. Textual essay. (In Cather, W. Death comes for the archbishop (University of Nebraska Press, 1999), p. 515-564), p. 521. (Cf. Crane, J. Willa Cather: a bibliography, p. 134-135.)

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy 1: dust jacket retained. (Small portion of front jacket flap torn off.)

Schimmel Collection copy 1 has autograph ("Selvin Hershon") in blue ink at head of front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy 2 has stamp of R.M. McQuoid on front pastedown and front free endpaper.

OCLC:

188746