CATHER WILLA Death Comes for the Archbishop

Sale 2295 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 2,400

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

FRANK HOGAN COPY FROM DOHENY CATHER, WILLA. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Tall 8vo, original green cloth over marbled boards, gilt-lettered leather spine label, minor rubbing to board extremities, corners slightly bumped; green cloth chemise within custom matching 1/4 morocco gilt-lettered slipcase by Macdonald; unobtrusive bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Provenance: The Frank J. Hogan copy with his morocco gilt bookplate on front pastedown and with presentation inscription by E.L. Doheny on recto of limitation. New York, 1927

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limited edition, signed by cather; number 93 of 175 copies, with an esteemed provenance. The 18 line presentation inscription to noted New York attorney Hogan from early oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny mentions the New Mexico setting of Cather's novel, stating "Here's another story of New Mexico which goes back before my time a few years" and later asserts "it is all enlightening as to the people of 'our country.'" Doheny's first mining successes occurred in the New Mexico Territories, and his inscription clearly suggests a fondness in recalling these early ventures.
Many years subsequent, Doheny found himself embroiled in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal and retained Hogan as his lawyer, and was eventually acquitted of the charges of bribing a Cabinet Secretary. The character Vern Roscoe in Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! (the inspiration for the 2007 film There Will Be Blood) is loosely based on Doheny.