Death Comes for the Archbishop; Alexander’s Bridge; Shadows on the Rock.
"She was a person of distinction he saw at once, moreover very handsome": Finely bound collection of Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, Alexander's Bridge, and Shadows on the Rock
Death Comes for the Archbishop; Alexander’s Bridge; Shadows on the Rock.
CATHER, Willa.
$475.00
Item Number: 105420
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Alfred A. Knopf, 1922-1931.
Finely bound collection of three of the author’s best-known works, including her first novel: Death Comes for the Archbishop. Octavos, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate to the pastedown of two volumes. In very good condition.
American author Willa Cather achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. She published twelve novels and several collections of poetry and short stories throughout her lifetime.
