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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Modern Library #191.1)
by CATHER, Willa
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394605039
- ISBN 13
- 9780394605036
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library. Fair with no dust jacket. [c.1931-36]. Flexible cloth. 0394605039 . Virginia-born and Nebraska-raised, Willa Cather (1873-1947) often wrote of pioneer life in the West. "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is set in the Territory of New Mexico and concerns the first bishop and his vicar who are sent there to establish the Catholic Church in the new territory. This is a Modern Library reprint edition of Cather's novel, originally published in 1927. Newsclip about the author is laid in. --- In Toledano spine 7 / green balloon cloth / limp boards / gilt cover & spine titling & decorations / orange Kent endpapers / volume lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1931-36 (though 1927 date appears in the book). ML #191.1. --- A Fair-only copy, with near complete loss of spine gilding, three holes to spine cloth, prior owner's signature to front free endpaper and general age-toning to leaves, else tightly-bound & unmarked.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); (6), 303 pages .
Synopsis
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. The novel was included on Time Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as well as the Modern Library's list of the 100 Best Novels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87188
- Title
- Death Comes for the Archbishop (Modern Library #191.1)
- Author
- CATHER, Willa
- Format/Binding
- Flexible cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394605039
- ISBN 13
- 9780394605036
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1931-36]
- Keywords
- 0394605039
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Religion and Spirituality;
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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About Bluebird Books
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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