Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Stegner, Wallace. Fire and Ice. Duell Sloan Pearce, 1941, 1941.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition (stated) Vey good minus/good (the book is somewhat worn, with some browning on the endpapers but free of any owner markings; the price-clipped dj is quite worn, with chips at the spine extremities and a detachment of the back panel from the spine, but it is all held together with the mylar)
Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. Fire and Ice. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED, without inscription, by Wallace Stegner on a non-publisher's tipped in page. The volume is bumped on the spine ends with some fraying on the crown, and has lost maybe a shade of spine lettering intensity. The pastedowns and endpapers are mildly toned and the text leaves lightly so.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
STEGNER, WALLACE.. Fire and Ice. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941, 1941.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good or a little better in a very good dust jacket with a little chipping at the top and bottom of the spine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$674.99 + shipping
Description: nFINE. Blue cloath boards. No dust jacket. Tight titling on spine. Scarce high grade First Edition [stated First] despite missing jacket. From the estate of a noted Stegner historian/collector. Free of marks, writings, notations or names. [B201]
Seller: Sierra Rose Antiques, Minden, NV, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. Fire and Ice. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First edition., 1941.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Inscribed by the author.
Seller: The Book Den, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. Fire and Ice. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1941.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 214pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title stamped in white ink on the backstrip. Very good minus. The extremities are just a bit rubbed and bumped. Minor dusting to the extremities, and there is a slight lean to the spine. The endsheets have several large stains, and there is a small loss from the top fore-edge of the front free endsheet. In a good only dust jacket. The jacket has been laminated, and there are large areas of bubbling in the lamination. The inside flaps are stained. The edges have several closed tears, backed with tape. The longest closed tear is 1 and 1/4" long. One of the harder Stegner titles to find in this nice condition. Only 2500 were printed, and less than 2000 sold. Stegner's agents wrote on April 14, 1948 (seven years after publication) that "Wally Stegner says, with regret, that he cannot find any immediate use for 515 sets of sheets for Fire and Ice. I am afraid, therefore, that you will have to have them pulped." Colberg A5.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. Fire and Ice. Duell, Sloan and Pierce, 1941.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition stated. Flat signed by Stegner at an earlier date; he then added an inscription above that to the historian Richard Etulain on 5/20/86. No DJ. Book is in very good condition. Pages are clean, sharp cornered, securely bound. Endpapers and pastedowns, front and rear, show age toning, as do the margins of the half-title page. Blue boards show very minimal shelfwear. There is minor bumping to head and tail of spine; the white lettering and decorative element on the spine are still bright. Please see our photo.
Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. Fire and Ice. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1941.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED. 214pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth. Good/Very good. Jacket corners chipped with losses (more so at the head and foot of the spine) A few minor creases to head of jacket. Gentle rubbing to corners of boards. Signed by the author on the title page. One of the hardest to find Stegner titles. Only 2500 were printed, and less than 2000 sold. Colberg states that more than 500 sets of sheets of 'Fire and Ice' were pulped. Early Stegner work that follows the protagonist Paul Condon through his flirtations with communism. Colberg A5.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. Fire and Ice. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1941.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards (minor dusting to the top edge and a small discoloration on the foredge) in dust jacket with substantial tape reinforcements, mostly on the verso. The dust jacket is not price-clipped, but is wrinkled from the reinforcements.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace Earle (1909-1993). Fire and Ice. New York : Duell, Sloan And Pearce, 1941.
Price: US$1933.56 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Scans etc. On request. ; 214 pages; Description: 214 p. ; 21 cm. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to Ingle Barr with the inscribee's bookplate to the front paste-down. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Stegner, Wallace Earle (1909-1993). Fire and Ice. New York : Duell, Sloan And Pearce, 1941.
Price: US$2110.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Scans etc. On request. ; 214 pages; Description: 214 p. ; 21 cm. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to Ingle Barr with the inscribee's bookplate to the front paste-down. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Stegner Wallace. FIRE AND ICE. New York Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1941, 1941.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Wallace Stegner. 8vo, publishers original blue boards, lettered in white on the spine, in the original dustjacket. 214 pp. A near fine copy with only a hint of wear to the spine edges and with a jacket that is complete with inoffensive evidence of shelf wear to its edges. AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS RARE AND INSCRIBED STEGNER TITLE. The central figure in the novel is a fierce rebel, who is working his way through college, and who is more than ready to take arms against the injustice of the world he knows. He becomes desperately attracted to a girl of wealth and beauty who represents everything that he has forced himself to reject and disdain. The inscription is for Virginia, a close friend of Stegner and his "favorite reader". He signs very familiarly as "Wally". Stegner was a professor at Harvard when he wrote this book. Virginia was a friend at Harvard during the same time as Stegner's stint at the university. His REMEMBERING LAUGHTER was issued in 1937 to critical acclaim. It won the Little, Brown contest and was followed by ON A DARKLING PLAIN. It is said of FIRE AND ICE the the pace of Stegner's narrative is more beautifully calculated than ever before and his feeling for word and phrase more acute. Inscribed copies of this early work are very scarce indeed.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.