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Willa Sibert Cather. Alexander's Bridge. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1912.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. pp.175 + 4pp. ads. First editio, stated "Published April 1912." Half title bound in after title page. Faint rubbing to extremities; light dampstain just to edges of text block at bottom; beginning of separation between ffep and title, spine toned but gilt bright. A very good copy.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa Sibert. Alexander's Bridge. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1912.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small hardbound octavo. Navy covers ruled and stamped in gilt. Slight corner wear else a clean copy marred only by a small inked name/date (from 1912) on the front endpaper and a small bookseller stamp afixed to the inside front pastedown. Cather's second novel. 175 pp plus ads at rear. Second issue with half-title following the title page. A handsome copy.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa Sibert.. Alexander's Bridge.. Houghton Mifflin Company,, Boston:, 1912.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The author's first novel. First edition (second state with the half title page following the title page). Age darkened along the spine, moderate shelf wear and aging, else good in purple cloth with gilt lettering. No dust jacket. ; 175 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa Sibert. Alexander's Bridge. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1912.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Second Issue as Always. Author's First Book. Octavo. Original lavendar cloth over boards, gilt lettering at front cover and spine. Very good, no dust jacket, some discoloration to binding and cloth, spine faded, spine ends slightly worn, slight loss to front end papers, light foxing and few smudges to pages.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Alexander?s Bridge. CATHER, Willa Sibert. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1912.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue, with _ title after title page, 16mo, original blue cloth over boards, gilt stamped lettering on front cover and spine, "Willa S. Cather" on spine. American author Willa Sibert Cather's first novel, concerning the mid-life crisis of a world-renowned construction engineer Bartlet Alexander. Very Good; moderate shelf wear, rear cover discolored.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa Sibert. Alexander's Bridge. Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1912.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: Second issue. Octavo (19cm). Purple cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine; [iv],174,[6]pp; 4pp of publisher's ads at rear. Bookplate from the Edward MacDowell Memorial Association. Sound but spine lightly rolled, light rubbing to edges, spine ends, and center of front board, internally clean: Good or better. Binding b. In a pre-1918 binding, with the initial S. in Cather's name on front and spine. Joan Crane notes that in the preparation of her Cather bibliography, she located only two copies of the first issue. CRANE A5.a.i second issue.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa Sibert. Alexander's Bridge. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston and New York, 1912.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Plum cloth, front cover and spine panel lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities, minor running along top and fore-edges of front cover, also spine panel; slight surface blemish, apparently from moisture, to a portion of back cover cloth along fore-edge, noted only for accuracy. Firm, square binding, clean and unmarked interior. [iv],174,[5] pp. Supplied with brand new facsimile dust jacket from Mark Terry. Author's first book. 1st ptg.: Apr. 1912, apparent 2nd issue (but see Ahearn) with half-title following main title. Crane A5.a.i. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa Sibert. Alexander's Bridge. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1912.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Second issue with half title page on p. [iii]. Octavo (19cm.); original purple cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; [4],174,[1],[4](ads)pp. Lightly rubbed, spine a hint cocked with cloth fading. Old inscription to front pastedown has been effaced, else interior about fine. Very Good overall. CRANE A5a.i.b.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Original light blue, or purplish, cloth, exceptionally scarce in this near fine condition, gilt titles on cover and spine. Slight offsetting to rear cover. "First Published April 1912" on the copyright page. "Willa S. Cather" on spine, but half-title bound in after the title page. Ahearn states that the priority is unresolved, but the true first edition, with the half-title before the title page, is exceptionally scarce to the point that it is almost unattainable.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Alexander's Bridge. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1912.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1912. Apparent first state with the half title bound in before the title page rather than after. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gold. A very good copy with prior owner's bookplate and dulling to the spine. There is a touch of wear to the spine ends and the lower tips.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. ALEXANDER'S BRIDGE. Houghton Mifflin Co.: Boston, 1912.
Price: US$1035.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7.5 x 5", blue cloth, 175pp + publisher's ads, extremities lightly bumped and worn, bookplate of former owner inside front cover, else a nice copy in a darkened, lightly edge-worn original dustjacket with Queed/Nicholson/Latest Fiction blurbs and $1.00 price on spine. "FIRST EDITION", later state (c. 1918) with half-title after title page, and cover printed in blue ink, in custom two-piece leather-backed blue cloth slipcase (a bit worn and sunned).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Alexander's Bridge. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, usual second issue with title page preceding half-title page, in Cranes "B" pictorial dust jacket, which was published a few weeks after the "A" typographic jacket. Publishers purple cloth with titles stamped in gilt to front board and spine; original dust jacket with illustration of man and woman dining by F. Graham Cootes to front panel, list of "New Fiction" to rear panel. Book with a touch of spotting to text block fore edge and endpapers, else fine; very good unclipped dust jacket with some wear to edges and spine ends, a bit of toning to spine, and a few small closed tears including two to top of rear panel. Overall, a beautiful book in an excellent example of its scarce dust jacket. Crane A5.a.i. Alexander's Bridge features the main character Bartley Alexander, a construction engineer who is famous for his bridges. Throughout the book, Alexander struggles to maintain two relationships-- one with his wife in Boston and the other with an old lover in London. His life deteriorates as a result, a plight that is mirrored by the increasing corrosion of a bridge he built in Canada. Originally published as a serialized story in McClure's Magazine, Alexander's Bridge predates Cather's most successful novels. Subsequently, Cather published her Prairie Trilogy, which established her as a writer and helped pave the way for her more acclaimed writings from the 1920s.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, "Published April, 1912" on copyright page, first issue with the half title preceding the title and without her middle initial S in her gilt printed name on the both the back and the upper side of the blue-purple cloth, pp. (4), half-title, title, 1-174, (2). In later dust jacket as issued with her middle initial S in her printed name on the back and the upper side of the pictorial (F. Graham Cootes illustration) dust jacket. The jacket lists 4 titles including My Antonia (1918) on the front flap and My Antonia with description on the rear flap. It has no printed price and is not clipped. New Fiction lists 14 titles on the lower side of the dust jacket. Near fine copy in very good+ dust jacket. Sheets are clean, unmarked, complete. H10086 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping. All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included i
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa S.. Alexander's Bridge.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1912.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: 179 pp. 8vo, publisher's purple cloth in dust jacket. First edition; second issue, in the earliest of two jackets issued within a few weeks of publication. Crane A5. Slight sunning to cloth; browning to endsheets from jacket flaps; but a fresh copy. The scarce jacket is chipped; 2" lacking at the bottom of the spine; and a few letters of the title are affected by chipping at its crown. The front panel has two chips (not affecting any lettering); and there is some splitting at the folds. This jacket is exceedingly scarce.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa S.. Alexander's Bridge. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1912.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: Original purple cloth, gilt stamped, with initial "S" on the front cover. A very fine copy in the rare pictorial dust jacket, with illustration by F. Graham Cootes. This is Crane's jacket "b" issued in April 1912, shortly after publication. With the bookplate of M.B. Goldstone. Acquired by David Porter after the sale of Goldstone's collection at Bonhams in 2009. Crane A5.a.i. First edition, second issue (as always, with half-title bound after the title page), of Cather's first novel.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa S.. Alexander's Bridge. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston & New York, 1912.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Willa Cather on a laid in signature. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has light wear to the edges. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED Willa Cather First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa S.. Alexander's Bridge. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1912.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Description: Original purple cloth, gilt stamped, with initial "S" on the front cover. A very fine copy in the very rare and fragile typographic dust jacket, split along front hinge fold but intact. The acidic jacket flaps have lightly stained the facing endpapers. This is Crane's jacket "A" issued upon publication on April 20, 1912, and used only briefly. It would shortly - before the end of the month - be replaced by a pictorial jacket. Crane A5.a.i. First edition, second issue (as always, with half-title bound after the title page), of Cather's first novel.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.