Death Comes for the Archbishop

Description

Author: Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Publisher: Knopf

Pub Date: Not dated (reprint edition)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book:  Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair: NOT price clipped.  Some wear to upper edge front cover, wear to head and foot of spine.  A couple of smudges on front cover.

Notes:  Modern Library edition.  Originally published in 1927.  I was really surprised to find out I’d never had a copy of this little New Mexico classic.  A Roman à clef of Jean-Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888), the first Archbishop of Santa Fe.  Lamy was archbishop from 1851 to 1855, and was responsible for the construction of St. Francis Cathedral and the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe.  Bishop’s Road in Santa Fe is named for the road that led to Lamy’s ranch/retirement home, north of Santa Fe.   Cather’s story made Lamy a New Mexican icon.