A Shooting Star

New York: Viking Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very 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 extremities are a bit dinged, and there are several small stains on the bottom edge of the text block. In a dust jacket, with subtle toning, and light rubbing and chipping to the edges. Originally titled Sabrina. The story follows the infidelity and moral disintegration of an "independent woman of the twentieth century." Colberg #A15.1.a. This copy is signed by Wallace Stegner on a bookplate that has been mounted to the half title page.