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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.
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.
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$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.