NY: Knopf, 1929. Quarto. First illustrated edition. One of 170 copies signed by Cather. Illustrated with full-page chapter headings, head- and tailpieces from drawings by Harold von Schmidt. This is the first illustrated edition of Cather's most significant novel. Spine faintly sunned, else a fine copy in full limp vellum..... More
London: William Heinemann, (1927). Octavo. Second English edition and first illustrated edition. Illustrated with full-page chapter headings, head- and tailpieces from drawings by Harold von Schmidt. This is the first illustrated edition of Cather's most significant novel. Rebound in half burgundy morocco, with red cloth over boards, five raised bands..... More
NY: Knopf, 1933. Octavo. (12)pp. First edition thus. Signed by von Schmidt at the colophon. von Schmidt executed twelve ink drawings for the publication, each bridging his own iconic visions of the American West with the pre-Raphaelite style the book's mise-en-page presents. Printed in black and orange. Bound in tan..... More
(c. 1942). Five pen-and-ink drawings, completed across the fronts and backs of two pieces of stationery. The first, and most recognizable, is a preliminary sketch for "The Safe Return," an oil-on-canvas painting which later appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and as an illustration for Sugarfoot, by Clarence Budington Kelland..... More
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1972. Quarto. xviii, 230pp. One of 104 copies. Signed at the limitation by von Schmidt and Reed. Accompanied, as issued, by von Schmidt's first sculpture, "The Startled Grizzly." This copy also had, laid in, an original uncancelled postage stamp designed by von Schmidt, which is mounted on..... More
