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Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Fine in brown cloth covered boards with orange text on the spine and the same on the front board. A 12mo measuring 7 1/8" by 5". In a fine, facsimile, unclipped dust jacket with the "FEL" logo on the rear flap with the spine area very slightly faded which seems to be true with all copies from the First Edition Library. Both the book and its dust jacket are contained within a fine slip case covered with light gray cloth with reproductions of the front and rear panels of the dust jacket on the panels of the slip case. (419) pages of text. This is the First Edition Library's exact (facsimile) reproduction of the first edition of the book to include all the issue points that were present in the original first printing. Facsimile First Edition Library Reprint.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. MY ANTONIA. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1918.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Description: 419 pgs. Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 5 1/4. Very Good. Brown boards with orange lettering. Lettering faded on spine. Some wear to board edges, slight bubbling on bottom back. Some small stains on page edges. Interior tight. Early edition of one of Cather's popular novels.
Seller: Cindamar Books LLC, Newark, OH, U.S.A.
Willa Cather. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1918.
Price: US$399.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1918-New Edition. 419 pp; Publisher's brown cloth lettered in yellow-orange. First edition; second state with illustrations by W.T. Benda, printed on text paper. As history has it, the first state of the 1st printing has W.T. Benda's illustrations on coated / glossy paper. Cather objected to the paper selection and the remaining print run was printed on the same paper used throughout the book or "text" paper--thus this edition. While it is believed that 2500 copies were printed on coated paper and only 1000 on regular paper. Overall in very good condition., slight wearing at top and bottom of spine, pages themselves slightly yellowed and deckled but in excellent shape. Inscription " To Carrie And Irene Miner, In memory of affections old and true".
Seller: Taylor & Baumann Books, LLC, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Original brown cloth, very good with slight smudges to upper-portion of front cover, contains typical shelf wear to crown and foot of spine. The front free endpaper has been replaced, titles maintain brightness both front and spine. This edition contains use of glossy paper throughout. A complete and tight copy. Illustrated by W.T. Benda.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa Sibert. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston and New York, 1918.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown cloth, lettered in dull orange. Mild binding lean typical of issue, corners and joints a bit rubbed, text block edges dulled by age and use. Former owner's illus. book plate mounted inside front cover. Front hinge paper separated but hinge itself firm, rear hinge firm. 1st ed.: Oct. 1918, first state, one of 2500 copies with Benda's illustrations printed on coated paper stock. xiv,420 pp., illus. Supplied with brand new facsimile dust jacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa Sibert. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1918.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Printing. xiii [i], 418 [419] pp. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with warm orange titling to cover and spine. Slight sunning to spine, general wear overall, bumping to corners including harder compression bump to the front boards lower right corner, minor fraying to head and foot of spine. Interior quite clean with previous owner's name in blue ink on first free endpaper as well as a heavy erasure mark and a small loss at upper right corner of leaf, "Peabody Book Shop, Baltimore" bookseller's label at base of front pastedown near gutter. Contains first state printing of illustrations by W. T. Brenda on glossy stock.
Seller: Craig Olson Books, ABAA/ILAB, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.
CATHER, WILLA.. My Antonia. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1918, 1918.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of the author's widely acknowledged masterpiece. The plates are in the first state; very good. The first printing comprised 3500 copies, of which about 2500 were issued with the plates in the first state, printed on coated paper. Cather was meticulous in her specifications for the book's production, commissioning W.T. Benda to do the illustrations. Particularly concerned that the illustrations be at their proper places in the book, she also wanted them to be on the same paper as the text. Apparently displeased with the production and promotion of this book, Cather subsequently left Houghton, Mifflin for Knopf, her publisher for the remainder of her career. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa Sibert.. My Antonia. Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1918.
Price: US$631.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 1st State. 12.6 x 19 cm brown cloth with orange titles to the front and spine, xii(1) 418(1)pp with 8 black and white illustrations by W T Benda on glossy paper as called for. The boards are clean with a touch of fading and very light creasing to the spine. The spine tips are rubbed with a chip 2mm x 3mm from the head of the spine on the front joint. There are a couple of small nicks in the cloth at the spine tips. There is a little softening to the lower front fore edge corner and tiny white marks (paint?) at the tips of the top corners. The binding remains firm and square. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate. All in all a very good 1st Edition copy from this Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
Seller: Rainford & Parris Books - PBFA, Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom
Cather, Willa Sibert. My Antonia. Houghton Miflin Company, Boston and New York, 1918.
Price: US$689.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First published September, 1918. Introduction by author discloses how this story about friendship, love and immigration came to be written by a collaberation of sorts by her and Jim Burden. My Antonia consists of five 'Books'. Book I -The Shimerdas; Book II -The Hired Girls; Book III - Lena Lingard; Book IV - The Pioneer Woman's Story; Book V - Cuzak's Boys. The setting is late nineteenth century in Nebraska. 419 pp. Brown cloth covered boards have orange-yellow text on its spine and front panel. It is slightly cocked with scuffed extremities (spine ends and corners) and some foxing. A not very common book. Bookseller's Inventory # 210566.
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
Cather, Willa Sibert. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston and New York, 1918.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Brown cloth, lettered in dull orange. Slightly rubbed corners and spine extremities, text block edges typically a bit dulled by age. Firm, square binding (often found cocked), clean and unmarked interior. 1st ed.: Oct. 1918, first state, one of 2500 copies with Benda's illustrations printed on coated paper stock. xiv,420 pp., illus. Supplied with brand new facsimile dust jacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. MY ÁNTONIA. , 1918.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Description: With Illustrations by W.T. Benda. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Original brown linen-grain cloth lettered in light orange. First Edition, first printing (with the date on the FRONT of the title leaf), first state (with the illustrations on coated paper, rather than on text paper). This was Cather's second great novel of immigrant life on the Nebraska frontier, following O PIONEERS! (1913) -- and the third and last of her great "prairie novels," after O PIONEERS! and THE SONG OF THE LARK (1915). It tells of a Bohemian immigrant girl's life there, and of the pioneer strength that carries her through numerous adversities. Cather took a major role in the production of this book, choosing the illustrator and negotiating with Houghton Mifflin regarding many aspects of the book (especially the advertising budget, which HMC would not increase above $300.00!). She was particularly upset when she learned that HMC had ordered the illustrations printed on coated plate paper; she insisted that they be on regular text paper (though individually inserted), so some of the 3,500 copies of the first printing (but not this one) are in that later state. Cather's displeasure with Houghton Mifflin's handling of this book resulted in Alfred A. Knopf being her publisher from then on. This is a very good-to-near-fine copy (minor wear at the extremities of the spine, a dent in the top edge of each board, bookplate). Crane A9a.1.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1918.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover, Brown Cloth with tan lettering on front cover and spine. A very fine copy, with shelf wear to bottom covers and tender spine ends. Previous owners ' name neatly inked in on FEP corner and bookplate to inside cover. No other marks to interior of book. With illustrations by Benda on glazed paper .A very nice copy.
Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. (with date printed on title page) First state of printing with illustrations by W. T. Benda printed on coated glazed stock. Very good+ copy in brown cloth covers with orange titles, lacking the scarce dust jacket. (Book plate removed from rear pastedown. Hinges appear to have received some unobtrusive mending. Short nick to base of rear end-paper. Only the lightest shelf-wear to edges of cloth. ) (419pp. ) (5 1/4" X 7 1/2") 2500 copies printed. A solidly appealing copy of the author's acclaimed novel. ; 5 1/4" X 7 1/2"; 419 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
CATHER, WILLA.. My Antonia. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1918, 1918.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of the author's widely acknowledged masterpiece. The plates are in the first state; front hinge cracked; rear hinge mended, but overall very nearly fine; in a custom, brown quarter-morocco slipcase and chemise. The first printing comprised 3500 copies, of which about 2500 were issued with the plates in the first state, printed on coated paper. Cather was meticulous in her specifications for the book's production, commissioning W.T. Benda to do the illustrations. Particularly concerned that the illustrations be at their proper places in the book, she also wanted them to be on the same paper as the text. Apparently displeased with the production and promotion of this book, Cather subsequently left Houghton, Mifflin for Knopf, her publisher for the remainder of her career. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Salesman's dummy preceding publication without month of publication (October, 1918) absent on copyright page. Year of publication present at base of title page. One of W. T. Benda's illustrations appears opposite title page with tissue guard, unlike the order followed in the published book. The brown cloth covers are the same with orange titles, but the spine is blank. Tipped to the front paste-down and end-paper are salesman's specs for purposes of advancing orders. 12 pages of text and only 3 of the illustrations are present. The rest consists of blank pages. A preliminary page opposite title has been excised to accommodate the illustration and tissue guard. The copy is fine, replete with modifications required, without dust jacket. A remarkablly scarce advance of the author's finest work. ; 5 1/4" X 7 1/2"
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1918.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing, first state with illustrations on coated plates. Near Fine or better with trivial wear at the corners and spine ends, pages lightly tanned. A fantastic copy of a book that normally does not turn up quite as nice.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
CATHER, Willa Sibert.. My Antonia.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1918.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: 419 pp. 8vo, publisher's brown cloth lettered in yellow-orange. First edition; second state with illustrations printed on text paper. Front hinge neatly repaired; corners bumped; a few nicks to cloth. A very good copy with a choice inscription. Inscribed and signed in full, "For Mrs. Clement Grice, To whose keen observations and good memory I owe many details of pioneer life used in this story. Willa Sibert Cather October fourth 1918." Laid in is a snapshot of the recipient, identified on verso as "Grandma Grice."
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.