Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Stegner, Wallace. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1956.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 206 Pp. Green Boards Stamped In Yellow. Stated First Printing 1956. One Of 4000 Copies. Short Stories. Book Lightly Rubbed At Top And Bottom Of Spine And Tips, 1/8" Tear At Bottom Of Front Spine Fold, No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates. Dj Lightly Worn, 1/4" V-Chip At Top Of Rear Panel, Very Small Losses At Corners With Internal Repairs, No Other Chips, Small Clear Tape Reinforcement At Top And Bottom Of Spine And Top And Bottom Of Flap Folds.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The City of the Living [1st printing]. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956.
Price: US$41.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, 1st printing (so stated). Light toning to front and back pastedowns and back-end paper, otherwise NEAR FINE (no names, bookplates, remainder marks, or writing of any kind, etc.) Small chip to bottom rear panel, inch-and-a-half narrow open tear to back top fold, light creasing to back panel, otherwise NEAR FINE dust jacket with the $3.00 price intact.
Seller: Agathon Books, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. THE CITY OF THE LIVING. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1956.
Price: US$45.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 206 pages, blue paper covered boards, yellow printing to the spine. the spine is sunned, covers edges rubbed. The contents are bright and complete. About Very Good in an edge chipped dust jacket.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin, 1956, 1956.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition VG+ (slight crease in spine; no dj)
Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. City of the Living and Other Stories. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1956.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 206pp. Octavo [21 cm] Light sea green paper covered boards and a yellow ink stamped title on the spine. The spine and boards are moderately bumped and faded at the edges, there are a couple of thin, light stains on the backstrip, and the endpapers are subtly discolored. With the pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Edward Sweet. The jacket, with periodic shallow open and closed tears along the edges and folds, is moderately toned and soiled. Colberg #A14.1.a. Wallace Stegner won the National Book Award for Fiction for The Spectator Bird.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. City of the Living and Other Stories. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1956.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 206pp. Octavo [21 cm] Light sea green paper covered boards and a yellow ink stamped title on the spine. The extremities are very gently bumped, rubbed and faded. The underlying boards are just barely peeking through at the foot of the spine, and the bottom right corner of the front cover. The free endsheets have multiple large, but light foxed stains. In a good dust jacket. Mildly rubbed, age-toned and creased. The bottom quarter of the rear panel is barely perceptibly damp stained. The bottom edges of the inside flaps have thin light moisture stains. The front panel has a very small light stain, along with a thin, 1 inch long stain. There are a couple of small closed tears in the top edge that have been backed with tape. The longest closed tear is in the paper at the head of the spine, and measures 3/4 of an inch long. The edges are also a bit chipped. Minor foxing on the internal, non-visible side. Despite these flaws, the jacket is still quite attractive. Price-clipped. Colberg #A14.1.a. Wallace Stegner won the National Book Award for Fiction for The Spectator Bird.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1956.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: There is some foxing to the paste downs and fly pages. The pages are unmarked and clean. The binding is sturdy. There is a previous owner's name written on the the first title page. The dust jacket has some closed tears.
Seller: Flip Your Wig, Cloverdale, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated First Edition, First Printing from July, 1956, printed for Houghton Mifflin by The Riverside Press. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Light teal paper covers, a bit sunned, bumping to spine head and foot, very light wear to edges. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear, a short, closed tear at rear panel bottom, chipping to spine head and foot, protected by a plastic coat, not being price-clipped, and with a fine black-and-white photograph of the author at rear panel. Eight short stories, including the frequently anthologized "The Blue Winged Teal" and "Field Guide to the Western Birds." 206 pp. and dust jacket illustration by Edward Sweet.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. First printing October 1956 stated on copyright page, indicating a first edition. Light green paper-covered boards with yellow lettering on spine. Slight bump to spine heel. Very light sunning to extremities. Deckle edge. Binding is solid, edges clean and bright. Dustjacket illustration by Edward Street shows a line-drawn urban street scene highlighted by bright red patch of color behind the title. This same theme wraps onto the spine. Dustjacket has a few 1/4" chips to top and bottom of spine and small 1/4" chips to all flap corners. Dustjacket has closed 1" tear to bottom edge of back cover. Original $3.00 price. 206 pp. A collection of seven stories by the Pulitzer Prize (Angle of Repose) and National Book (Spectator Bird) award-winning author. All stories previously appeared in popular magazines of the era. "These stories range from classic lyric mood to straight narrative with a wry, ironic moral" (from the rear flap). VERY GOOD PLUS IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with jacket; Stated First Printing;Light green paper boards with yellow titles shows some fading;jacket has chips to spine with quarter inch loss;some foxing and discoloration to end pages; small booksellers label affixed to FEP; previous owners name in ink on FEP.
Seller: Barner Books, New Paltz, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 206 pages. A collection of short stories first published in magazines. First edition (first printing). Some wear and fading to cloth edges, else a very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket with a crease to the rear flap and a few short closed tears at the edges repaired on the verso with paper tape, thus very good. Previous owner's information in ink on front blank.
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
STEGNER, Wallace. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin, boston, 1956.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (21cm); teal colored paper-covered boards, titled in yellow on the spine; dustjacket drawing by Edward Sweet; 206pp. Spine ends are pushed with tiny tear to the crown; about Near Fine. The dustjacket is price-clipped with nicks and short tears, mostly to the spine ends; about Near Fine. "Man they think I'm rat poison, " says Johnny Bane about his girl friends family. "They got this old Mexican jive about keeping chics at home. But he plans to take the girl out anyway: "Down to the beach, man. She look real mean down there on the sand gettin the eyball from all the cats. Reety!" From hep-cat Johnny Bane, in Pop Goes the Alley Cat," to sixty year old literary agent Joseph Allston in A Field Guide to Western Birds, Wallace Stegner's characters are brilliantly alive and vivid."(from the dustjacket).
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1956.
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first printing hardcover. Faint toning to endpages else tight and square. The DJ in mylar is slightly soiled/rubbed with trace foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin, 1956.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some foxing/offsetting top edge and to a few pages; jacket has 2 short closed tears, and very light chipping at spine, price clipped.
Seller: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The City of the Living and Other Stories. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1956.
Price: US$121.96 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8 stories. 4,000 copies printed. The book is Fine, in a clean dust jacket that is complete and Fine except for two chips 3/8 X 1/4" from top corner of spine, and 1/4 X 1/2" triangle at lower left corner of front panel, and minor rubbing at the four corners.
Seller: Amanda Patchin, Boise, ID, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin, 1956.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/Stated First Printing; A near fine book in a near fine dust jacket. An excellent copy of this novel written by one of the great authors of the 20th century. This volume is in near fine condition with a square, tight binding, crisp white pages, and bright spine lettering; book does show some minor crimping on the spine and some discoloration to the paste downs and free papers. Housed in a near fine dust jacket that is clean and bright with only some light chipping to the bottom spine end, else fine. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in archival protection.
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace.. THE CITY OF THE LIVING.. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. BOSTON 1956, 1956.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket. (Hint of foxing on end-papers & paste-downs. Touch of foxing at bottom edge. 3 separate 1/2"- inch tears on rear panel of jacket. Modest chip at head of front cover adjoining spine. Orange hue on spine of jacket. Faded, though titles and everything else is perfectly readable. ) Stories.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin, 1956, 1956.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition NF/VG (pc)
Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1956.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription, by the author on the half title page. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the bottom spine end of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is one small spot of paper lifted to the top corner of the front endpaper from rubbing. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, though there is some light toning and ground-in dirt to the white portions. There are several very small mostly closed edge tears and some beginning rubbing and edge wear. This volume contains a series of short stories including: The Blue-Winged Teal, The City of the Living, Pop Goes the Alley Cat, Maiden in a Tower, Impasse, the Volunteer, Field Guide to the Western Birds, and, The Traveler. "He served as a special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall and was elected to the Sierra Club's board of directors for a term that lasted 19641966. He also moved into a house near Matadero Creek on Three Forks Road in nearby Los Altos Hills and became one of the town's most prominent residents. In 1962, he co-founded the Committee for Green Foothills, an environmental organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the hills, forests, creeks, wetlands and coastal lands of the San Francisco Peninsula. Stegner's novel Angle of Repose (first published by Doubleday in early 1971) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972. Yet it was based on the letters of Mary Hallock Foote (first published in 1972 by Huntington Library Press as the memoir A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West). Stegner explained his use of unpublished archival letters briefly at the beginning of Angle of Repose but his use of uncredited passages taken directly from Foote's letters caused a continuing controversy." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover, inscribed by Stegner on the half title page, with the recipient's plate to the front pastedown, and their personal related note to the head of p. 103. The book also has bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a thin vertical ridge to the spine, and faintly effaced bookseller marks to the front fly leaf with a small seller's sticker to the rear pastedown. Overall, this is a solid, Near Very Good copy in a Very Good, unclipped dust jacket, which has bumps with creasing to the spine ends and corners, sun fading and an area of peeling to the spine, and some rubbing with mild smudging to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available by request.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1956.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated First Edition, 1956 Houghton Mifflin Co., Inscribed by author "For Kathleen and Osborne Meese." Near Fine book in Near Fine Price-clipped Dust Jacket with some soiling and wear to top spine and bottom edge. Photos available on request.
Seller: D. J. Witter Bookseller, Lima, OH, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. City of the Living and Other Stories. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1956.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED. 206pp. Octavo [21 cm] Light sea green paper covered boards and a yellow ink stamped title on the spine. Very good. The extremities are gently bumped, rubbed and faded. The underlying boards are just barely peeking through at the foot of the spine. Minor spine lean. There is a short tear in the backstrip at the foot of the spine along the rear joint. The top edge of the text block is slightly soiled. The front hinge is a little weak. There is a former owner's name on the top edge of the front free endsheet. In a good plus dust jacket, with a general layer of moderate soiling, light moisture staining on the verso, and a number of short edge tears. Price-clipped. Colberg #A14.1.a. Signed by Stegner on the half title page. Wallace Stegner won the National Book Award for Fiction for The Spectator Bird.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace.. The City Of The Living.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1956.
Price: US$252.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Minor chipping to edges of dust jacket. Otherwise near fine condition. Near fine condition.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace.. The City Of The Living; And Other Stories.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1956.
Price: US$252.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Dust jacket. Slight dent at foot of spine otherwise fine condition. The title story of this second collection of the author's short stories won the 1955 O. Henry Award
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1956.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first printing. A collection of short stories. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON FFEP : "TO --- AND--- WITH EVERY GOOD WISH, WALLACE STEGNER." Aqua boards with yellow lettering. Dust jacket, in mylar, shows some light dampstaining.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing (so stated; "October, 1956"). 8vo. Dust jacket designed by Edward Sweet (price clipped). Very good. 206 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Wallace Stegner in black ink on the front free endpaper: "For Ruth James, from a far-back friend. Wallace Stegner, Stanford, May 24, 1957."
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1956.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first printing ( stated ) published by Houghton Mifflin in 1956. Flawless; a fine copy of the book in an equally fine jacket. A collection of short stories, including the frequently anthologized 'The Blue Winged Teal ' as well as ' Field Guide to the Western Birds. '
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
STEGNER, Wallace. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 1956., 1956.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: VG/VG. 206 pp. First Edition. Only 4,000 copies in first printing.
Seller: Limestone Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The City of the Living. Houghton Mifflin, 1956.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An inscribed copy. About very good with a bit of wear to the spine ends on both book and jacket. Short tear to the jacket on the rear panel and some soiling as well.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. THE CITY OF THE LIVING. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1956.
Price: US$316.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 206 pages. Contents page, half title page very lightly foxed at edges, otherwise pages clean, good condition. Foredges flightly foxed. Green cloth, yellow title on spine. Head/tail of spine and corners lightly worn. Tail of spine and lower corners bumped. White dust jacket price clipped. DJ illustrated with line drawings on upper cover and b/w photograph on lower cover. Edges lightly worn. VG/GOOD+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Stegner, Wallace. City of the Living and Other Stories. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1956.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED. 206pp. Octavo [21 cm] Light sea green paper covered boards, with a yellow ink stamped title on the spine. The head of the backstrip is lightly bumped, and there is a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Else, the boards and text block are clean and square. In a dust jacket, with a 2" closed tear in the top edge of the front panel. Signed by the author on the half title page. Colberg #A14.1.a. Wallace Stegner won the National Book Award for Fiction for The Spectator Bird.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, very fine in like dust jacket. REVIEW COPY with slip laid in giving the publication date of "10/23/56." Original price intact on front flap. Very scarce in this condition, especially with a review slip. Custom made slip case include.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.