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CATHER, WILLA. APRIL TWILIGHTS and Other Poems. ALFRED A . KNOPF, NY, 1923.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Description: FLOWERED BOARDS, SOME SPINE COVER LOSS, ENDPAPERS ARE FOXED, TEXT IS CLEAN & UNMARKED.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. April Twilights and Other Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1923.
Price: US$39.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Previous owner name and October 1923 date on the front endpaper. The corners are bumped with minor edgewear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Wayward Books, south dartmouth, MA, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. April Twilights. Alfred A Knopf, 1923.
Price: US$69.29 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Englisch
Seller: Bookbot, Prague, Czech Republic
Cather Willa [1873-1947]. April Twilights and Other Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923 [1903]. 8vo, 66 p., original 1/4 cloth over patterned boards. First thus edition of this collection of Cather's poetry. Minor chipping to spine tips, wear and fraying to corners, with some tanning to board edges, else a VG copy.
Seller: Marc J Bartolucci, Hudson, MA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. April Twilights and Other Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1923.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This book has been bound in a light green cloth with darker green lettering on the spine. The paper over the boards is a floral pattern that has begun delaminating especially in the lower corner of the front board. The boards are in fairly good shape with corner bumping and edge wear. The text has yellowed with age but is very clean and solid in it's binding. An owner's book plate has been affixed to the paste-down front end paper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. April Twilights and other Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1923.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Second edition, revised of her first book. 1 vols. 8vo. Original decorated boards. Darkening of the binding, light marginal browning, else very good Second edition, revised of her first book.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. April Twilights. Alfred Knopf, 1923, 1923.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition of the trade very fine copy.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. April Twilights and Other Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1923.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: GOOD / NO DUST JACKET. 66 pages [2] + colophon, which provides the information about printing: "printed by Pynson Printers of New York" and that "of 450 copies, this is #98", then signed by the author. Interior is pristine, pages clean and bright, with gilt decorations on the half-title and title page. Pages are mostly uncut. Boards covered with floral art paper with tan paper-covered spine. Spine is somewhat tanned, slightly bumped at top and tail. Tips of cover corners are worn through to boards, but area of damage is very small. Rubbed along top and bottom edges, but not badly. Binding tight. Overall in very nice condition.
Seller: RPL Library Store, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. April Twilights and Other Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: One of 450 numbered copies signed by the author. Hardcover, bound in paper covered boards. The binding well rubbed, lacking the slipcase and most of the backstrip. Text-block largely un-cut.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa.. APRIL TWILIGHTS AND OTHER POEMS. **SIGNED**. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Description: VG- light sunning to spine, decorative boards, number 426 of 450 signed limited copies. Deckled edges, uncut pages. 66pps.
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa.. APRIL TWILIGHTS AND OTHER POEMS.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1923.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Printed by Pynson Printers of New York. #141 of 450 copies. Signed by the author. 66 pages [2] + colophon.Octavo, floral art paper covered boards with tan paper-covered spine. Spine is browned, worn. Chipped at head and foot of spine, and some wear at cover corners. Former owner name on front free endpaper in pencil. Bright, clean interior. 092717B
Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. April Twilights and Other Poems by Willa Cather. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust jacket is darkened all around, heavier on edges and the spine, chips and tears on the edges, chips head/tail of spine. Green, yellow and grey patterned boards are rubbed at the corners, darkened on the edges, rubbed head/tail of spine, spine darkened. Some weakness front , pen name front endpaper, some tanning on interior paper. April 1923 first edition. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011
Seller: Ivy Ridge Books/Scott Cranin, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. April Twilights and Other Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1923.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Reissue of First Book. Octavo. Tan dust jacket with orange printed lettering, orange top edge. Very good, dust jacket darkened at spine, light staining at flap edges, some folding to flaps, some staining at end pages, pages slightly agetoned.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. April Twilights and Other Poems [SIGNED]. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1923.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 66, (2)pp. Parchment spine strip lettered in black, over floral patterned boards. Edition limited to 450 numbered copies (this is #196) of a total printing of 1923. Signed and numbered on the limitation leaf by Willa Cather. Spine strip somewhat toned and lettering a bit effaced. Some minor, neat underlining of two of the poems. Small chips at extremities of spine and parts of the outer hinges have small splits but the binding is holding soundly. Boards are lightly rubbed (affecting title on spine which is partially effaced), but this is still an attractive copy of a scarce book (currently there is only one other limited, signed first edition being offered for sale online). Contents: "Grandmither, think not I forget" -- Fides, spes -- The tavern -- The hawthorn tree -- The poor minstrel -- Antinous -- London roses -- Winter at Delphi -- Paradox -- In media vita -- Evening song -- Lament for Marsyas -- "I sought the wood in winter" -- "Sleep, minstrel, sleep" -- In rose-time -- Poppies on Ludlow Castle -- Prairie dawn -- Aftermath -- Thou art the pearl -- Arcadian winter -- Provençal legend -- The encore -- Song -- L'envoi -- The palatine -- The Gaul in the capitol -- A likeness -- The Swedish mother -- Spanish Johnny -- Autumn melody -- Prairie spring -- Macon prairie -- Street in Packingtown -- A silver cup -- Recognition -- Going home. (OCLC).
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. April Twilight 1ST Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1923 Knopf signed limited edition (#38 of 450) tight and unmarked Paper spine over floral patterned boards. Tight and unmarked. a71 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$412.50 + shipping
Description: Limited Issue, one of 450 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.357. Octavo; 3/4 floral-patterned paper over boards, with titles printed in black on spine; 66pp, [2]. Paper partially eroded at extremities, resulting in some minimal board exposure; spine is toned, with rubbing overall; clean throughout - Very Good+ in a Fine, custom slipcase. Re-issue of Cather's first book, a collection of poems originally published in 1903. This edition eliminated 13 of the original poems, and added 13 new ones. The author's first limited edition. CRANE A2.a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa.. April Twilights and Other Poems.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1923.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: Originally published in 1903 by the Badger Press at the Gorham Press, this is the reissue by Knopf in 1923. #168/450 copies Numbered and SIGNED by Cather on the colophon. A Fine copy in quarter faux vellum spine stamped in gilt, in floral patterned paper covered boards, lacking the publisher's slipcase. Custom bookplate of Joseph Weller Sefton Jr. [1881-1966] on the front pastedown, notable San Diego banker, philanthropist, amateur naturalist and ornithologist. 66pp. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Q15136
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. April Twilights and Other Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1923.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition thus, a re-issue of Cather's first book, with additional poems, some of them previously unpublished. Fine in very good or better dustwrapper which is rubbed at the spine, and has some very slight loss at the spinal extremities. Very scarce in jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. April Twilights and Other Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1923.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed on the front free endpaper, 'For Herbert Bitir from his old friend Willa Cather.' First edition of the 1923 reprint edition of her first book. Text fine, no markings. 66 pages. Some darkening and staining to spine, rubbing to spine ends.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.