Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Cather, Willa. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1929.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Green cloth binding. Int. good. 303 pages. Chapter book. Pages yellowed due to paper content. Spine yellowed and slightly worn. Some shelf wear.
Seller: Betty Mittendorf /Tiffany Power BKSLINEN, Ralston, NE, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1929.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Missing DJ. Some tearing along the edges of the brown cloth boards. Pages are clean and free from markings or creases. Binding is tight. BP/Fiction
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in brown cloth with dark brown lettering and decoration on front cover and spine, clean tight unmarked, previous owner bookplate on front free endpaper; "with drawings and designs by Harold Von Schmidt"; very light surficial damp stain in LL corner of front cover is barely noticeable
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York, 1929; brown cloth covered boards; mild corner and spine edge wear; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 343 pages. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. Limited SIGNED edition 137/170. SIGNED by author. Deckled edges. Wear to silver gilding over top edge of text block. Moderate bowing to wrapper panels. Rubbing and slight soiling to wrappers. Toning to wrappers. Rubbing and darkening to spine. Light stains to spine. Slight loosening to spine. Tear to upper rear joint. Slight edgewear to wrappers with light bumping to spine ends and forecornres. Small tear to spine end near joint. Small stain to rear wrapper panel near middle. Cracking and slight overopening to front hinge. 'Ex Libris' sticker from previous owner to verso of front wrapper. Rubbing to f.f.e.p. Rubbing from pencil to verso of wrapper with light stain underneath 'Ex Libris' sticker. Previous owner's signature to 3rd blank page. Light offsetting to gutter at pgs. 2-3. Slight overopening throughout. Small crack to rear joint. VG in wrappers.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1929.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in full vellum with a silver decoration on the front cover and silver lettering on the spine. Illustrated with drawings and designs by Harold von Schmidt, published two years after the novel's first appearance. Copy #80 of only 170 numbered copies SIGNED by the author of what most consider her greatest achievement. Very mild and faint spotting to vellum which maintains a fresh, bright white color. Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper and slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1929.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First illustrated edition. Drawings and designs by Harold Von Schmidt. Quarto. Full vellum. Fine in dustwrapper with a chip in the middle of the spine, else about very good, in a worn but intact slipcase. One of 170 numbered copies Signed by Cather; this is copy number 10 - one of the ten copies intended for presentation. Cather's classic character study of two Frenchmen trying to organize a Catholic Diocese on the frontier of New Mexico. The presentation copies are by definition rare.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1929.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First trade illustrated edition. A wonderful association copy, signed by Willa Cather and inscribed "To George Stimson, who took a great deal of trouble for this book and, I like to think, for me." Stimson was the production manager at Alfred A. Knopf. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in darker brown, lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear to corners and spine ends and pages toned, front hinge is just slightly tender. A lovely copy of a story that tells of the attempts of a Catholic bishop and and priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.