1928 WILLA CATHER. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Superb American Southwest Novel. Civil War and bearing the bookplate of

and bearing the bookplate of Dr

Original very attractive full calf

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began in earnest

He was one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society and for ten years its Secretary

1928 WILLA CATHER. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Superb American Southwest Novel. Civil War and bearing the bookplate ofA superbly bound first English edition, fourth printing of Willa Cather's classic quasi historical fiction set in the Southwest New Mexico, involving the Mexican American War and the role of the Catholic Church in the emerging Southwest, inclusive of actual historical figures and events. The work was religiously innovative for Cather as well. Her previous religious figures were negative, ultra conservative tropes. Here, she softens and sees good