Cather, Willa Sibert. April Twilights. Richard C. Badger, The Gorham Press, Boston, 1903.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Laid in is a clipped slip of paper, inscribed "Cordially yours" and SIGNED Willa Cather. The volume has some occasional soiling, is edge rubbed with bumped corners an spine ends, and the spine, including the label, is sun toned. There is a bookplate on the front pastedown, and the volume is overopened at the title page. The hinges are solid. The volume is encased in a red chemise (also with an interior bookplate) which has a perished pull ribbon. Both are housed in a near very good red half bound red leather slipcase which has abrasions to the leather on top and bottom edges near the joints. In 1908, Willa Cather bought and destroyed the remaining unsold copies. This was her first book.

Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Cather, Willa Sibert. April Twilights. Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, Boston, 1903.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Description: Original boards, cover and spine labels. Boards darkened and marked, spine label chipped, nevertheless an attractive copy, preserved in a cloth case. Inscribed twice by Cather: On the front cover "For Albert Donovan from his friend Willa Siebert Cather," similarly on the front endpaper, with the addition of the date, Christmas 1912. Bookplate of Sherrill Bigelow. Crane A1.a.

Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.

Cather, Willa Sibert. April Twilights. Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, Boston, 1903.

Price: US$6500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition of Willa Cather's first book of poetry and her first published book. Signed by Cather in inscribed "Twenty years later!" on the front free endpaper. Bound in original drab grey boards with paper title label to upper board and spine. Near Fine with light toning to covers, subtle glue repair to crown, toning to spine and slight chipping to title label there. Still a very bright example of this otherwise fragile production, signed by the author.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

CATHER, Willa. April Twilights. Richard Badger / The Gorham Press, Boston, 1903.

Price: US$8500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Papercovered boards with paper labels on the front board and the spine, issued without dustwrapper. A tiny nick at the crown, spine label a bit darkened, and a small split at the joint, still an at least very good copy. Cather's first book, a vanity press collection of poetry. Cather reportedly destroyed the remainder of the edition in 1908. This copy Inscribed by Cather at a later date: "For Edwin Winter, In return for a beautiful letter he once wrote me about 'My Antonia'. Willa Sibert Cather. Five Bank Street. March 15, 1920." Also laid in is a two-page Autograph Note Signed "Willa Cather," written in pencil, that addresses her attempts to visit her doctor, her inability to make engagements at present, and says in part: "I came home with gout, but I admit it only to old friends. Anyhow, I'm glad I had the Wine in Paris and the gout in New York!" The note is folded, and has a couple of small tears, but is overall very good.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.