The Preacher and the Slave
by Stegner, Wallace [Joe Hill]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 403pp. Octavo [22 cm] Orange cloth covered boards with a blue ink stamped title on the spine and black ink linear patterns on the spine and front cover. Publisher's black topstain. Covers a bit cocked. In the dust jacket, designed by William Barss, with light chipping to... Read More
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A Shooting Star
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: Viking Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/very good. SIGNED. 433pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with decorative blue paper covered boards, and a gilt stamped title and gilt ruled lines on the spine. Publisher's blue top stain. The spine is rolled. The inside margins of the preliminary pages are a bit discolored. In a... Read More
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain
by Stegner, Wallace; Robert Stone (introduction)
New York: Vintage Books, 2010. Reprint. Paperback. NEW. 639pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. In this affecting narrative, a defining masterpiece by the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times), Wallace Stegner portrays more than three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survivle during the lean years of the early twentieth... Read More
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain [first edition in a superior dust jacket than is commonly seen]
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 515pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Red cloth covered boards. Spine mildly rolled; endpapers a bit darkened along the hinges. In a very attractive dust jacket, not price-clipped, and with toning to the flaps and rear panel, a handful of very minor chips to the edges, and... Read More
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Lions Share: The Story of a Serengeti Pride (from the personal library of Wallace Stegner)
by [Stegner, Wallace] Hanby, Jeanette; Illustrated by David Bygott
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. David Bygott. 221pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Natural beige cloth over boards. The boards are a trifle cocked. In a dust jacket, with fading to the spine and surrounding areas, and to the top edges of the panels. There are a couple of shallow closed tears... Read More
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Wolf Willow
by Stegner, Wallace
London: Heinemann, 1963. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 306pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards with title stamped in gilt on spine. Dust jacket is price clipped. Chipping and tearing to extremities. Spinning fact and fiction this book is a mixture of events from Stegner's own childhood, and the history of the frontier that... Read More
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A Shooting Star
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: Viking Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 433pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with decorative blue paper covered boards, and a gilt stamped title and gilt ruled lines on the spine. Publisher's blue top stain. Very good. The edges of the covers are just a little bit faded. The top edge of the text block is sunned... Read More
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One Way to Spell Man
by Stegner, Wallace
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 177pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth with gray boards, with bruising at the spine ends. In a dust jacket with subtle toning, and light edge wear. Inscribed by the author on the half title page: "To_______, with every good wish, Wallace Stegner."... Read More
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Crossing to Safety
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: Random House, 1987. Advance Proofs (Uncorrected). Paperback. 277pp. Octavo [22 cm] Yellow and black printed wraps. Publisher's "Advance Proof" notice taped to the front cover. Very good. The extremities are lightly soiled. Stegner's final novel. Stegner won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972.
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The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: Vintage, 1980. Later printing. Paperback. New. 280pp. Sextodecimo [19cm]. Pictorial wraps. "The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches collected in The Sound of Mountain Water encompass memoir, nature conservation, history, geography, and literature. Compositions delve into the post-World War II boom that brought the Rocky Mountain West–from Montana and Idaho to Utah and Nevada–into the modern age.... Read More
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Wolf Willow: a History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: Penguin Books, 2000. Page Stegner Introduction Edition; Later Printing. Paperback. New. 306pp. Octavo [19.5cm]; illustrated wraps. With and introduction by Page Stegner. Vladimir Nabokov said that this book is "Enchanting, heartrending, and eminently enviable.
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain (First edition in a dust jacket)
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 515pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Red cloth covered boards. There is a small split in the cloth at the foot of the spine, and there is a previous owner's bookplate, along with a bookseller's ticket, on the front pastedown. In a dust jacket, with toning... Read More
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Angle of Repose: Opera in Three Acts
by Stegner, Wallace
Delaware Water Gap, PA: Shawnee Press, 1976. 36pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Gray printed wrappers. Very good. Script for the opera based on 'Angle of Repose'. Libretto by Oakly Hall. Music by Andrew Imbrie. Colberg E8a.
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Shooting Star
by Stegner, Wallace
London: Heinemann, 1961. First UK edition. Hardcover. 464pp. Octavo. Black cloth. Near fine/Near Fine. Minor rubbing to corners of jacket. Front free endsheet has small closed tear at foot and name and date in ink at center. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Originally titled Sabrina. The story follows the infidelity and moral disintegration of an "independent... Read More
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All the Little Live Things
by Stegner, Wallace
United States of America: Penguin Books, 1991. Later printing. Paperback. New. 345pp. Octavo [19.5cm]; illustrated wraps.
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Shooting Star
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: Viking Press, 1961. First edition. 433pp. Octavo [23 cm] 1/4 black cloth with blue boards. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by the author on the front free endsheet. Originally titled Sabrina. The story follows the infidelity and moral disintegration of an "independent woman of the twentieth century". Colberg #A15.1.a.
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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
by Stegner, Wallace
Great Britain: Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd, 1966. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 331 pp. Octavo [23 cm]; brown cloth covered boards with the spine stamped in gilt and red. Illustrated front endsheet. Illustrated dust jacket. Map and illustrations in text. Some minor shelf wear to the book, and a small scuff mark on the bottom... Read More
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Shooting Star
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: Viking Press, 1961. Advance edition/First edition. 433pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Red boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip and "Advance Edition" gilt stamped at the foot of the front board. Near fine/Fine. Nice copy of this advance edition that was limited to 750 copies. This advance edition has a variant dust jacket in blue, yellow... Read More
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The Potter's House (with publisher's prospectus laid in)
by Stegner, Wallace
Muscatine, IA: Designed and printed by Carroll D. Coleman at The Prairie Press, 1938. First edition. One in an edition limited to 490. Hardcover. Very Good. 75pp. Octavo [25 cm] Gray cloth with gilt stamped title on backstrip. With very minor toning to the boards at the extremities, along with subtle darkening to the pages. A very attractive... Read More
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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 331pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Violet cloth with a silver stamped title on the spine, and small ornamental vignettes stamped in gilt, silver and lilac on the front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Spine ends moderately bumped. In the dust jacket, with darkening to the spine, and light chipping to the... Read More
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Second Growth
by Stegner, Wallace
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First edition with a dust jacket. Hardcover. Very good/good +. 240pp. Octavo [21 cm] Pale green cloth over boards stamped in blue. The spine and boards are moderately rubbed and bumped at the edges. In the pictorial dust jacket with rubbing, age-toning, and periodic chips in the edges, measuring 1/4" deep. A9.1.a. A... Read More
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The Sound of Mountain Water
by Stegner, Wallace
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good. SIGNED. 286pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 green cloth with light green cloth covered boards and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Author's initials stamped in gilt on front board. Spine very slightly rolled and spine ends are rubbed. Previous owner's book plate... Read More
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Recapitulation
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: Vintage Books, 2018. First Vintage Books Edition. Paperback. New. 278pp. Octavo [20.3cm]. New. Illustrated wraps. Purple spine with white and yellow lettering. A classic novel from Wallace Stegner, and the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety–this is his the incredible, moving... Read More
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Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil
by Stegner, Wallace
Beirut: Middle East Export Press, Inc, 1971. First edition. Paperback. Very good. 189pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Illustrated white wrappers. Minor rubbing to corners. Pages a bit toned. Signed by the author on the title page. This edition was privately printed for ARAMCO and was not for sale (giveaway). Abridged from the serial that appeared in Aramco World Magazine... Read More
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The Sense of Place
by Stegner, Wallace
Wisconsin Humanities Council, 1986. Limited Edition. Near fine. Katherine Kuehn. 9pp. Slim square octavo [22 cm] Gray wraps sewn with a single strand of white thread. With a matching dust wrapper printed in light green. Faint shelfwear. Colberg A32. "To encourage reading and discussion on the relationship of myth, story and history, the Wisconsin Humanities Committee has selected... Read More
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