Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Wallace Stegner. On a Darkling Plain. Harcourt, Brace and Co January 1940, 1940.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. Second printing stated. Hardcover in bue cloth. Moderate wear with spine tilt, contemporary bookstore stamp to flyleaf, toning. Binding solid, text is clean and unmarked. Good only.
Seller: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. On a Darkling Plain. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1940.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 230pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards, with title stamped in silver on spine. The covers are cocked and the rear board is stained. Other than the markings to the endpages, the pages are clean. In a worn dust jacket, lined with tape and paper strips at the edges (the paper strips are not visible, as they are lining the reverse of the jacket). An early novel from the author of "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angle of Repose." Originally serialized in Redbook under the title "Clash by Night."
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. On a Darkling Plain. Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, 1940.
Price: US$346.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine has tanned top edge to rear panel, faint lean to spine at bottom but is unmarked, pretty clean copy. Front endpaper has been clipped at top right edge losing about 1/2" to 2/3". One of his very early novels and hard to find. Facsimilie dust jacket of first edition is professionally made by company in San Francisco is bright and fresh and protected by them in mylar cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
STEGNER, WALLACE.. On A Darkling Plain. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1940, 1940.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Bookplate; some foxing; very good or a little better in a very good dust jacket with meding at the foot 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$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Inscribed by the author.
Seller: The Book Den, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
STEGNER, Wallace. On A Darkling Plain. Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York, 1940.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition stated. Important and uncommon Stegner title. Very Good in nearly Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, shallow loss to spine ends, nicking to flap corners, edges with wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. On a Darkling Plain. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1940.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover, Review Copy stamp to the first free end page, the book has a slight skew to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends, faint sunning to the spine, and foxing to the edges of the text block and a few of the pages. Overall, a solid, tight, Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has bumps with tiny chips and thin creases to the spine ends and corners, mild wear along the edges and folds, slight sunning to the spine, and some rubbing to the covers with faint smudging and foxing to the back. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available by request.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
STEGNER, Wallace.. On a Darkling Plain.. Harcourt Brace. New York. 1940., 1940.
Price: US$2900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/G. First edition, first printing. Jacket no better than Good. About a third of the spine missing. Half inch top of spine missing. Original price of $2.00 intact inside jacket flap. Edgewear. Inscribed by author, "For Ted and Kay Morrison, from their friend Wallace Stegner Christmas, 1939". Mr. Morrison was Stegner's tennis partner as well as director of Harvard's creative writing program. He was also director of the legendary Breadloaf Writers Conference for many years. Kay was Robert Frost's secretary. Wonderful association copy, as it was Morrison who hired Stegner away from Wisconsin and gave him his first job at Harvard. 231 pp.
Seller: Limestone Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Stegner Wallace. ON A DARKLING PLAIN. New York Harcourt, Brace and Co 1940, 1940.
Price: US$2915.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second printing issued with immediacy after the first, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Stegner to a familiar friend as "Wally". 8vo, publishers original blue boards, the spine lettered in silver, in the original dustjacket. 230 pp. A handsome and quite pleasing copy with minor tip wear to the spine, and a bit of light wear or chipping to the edges of the jacket. A NICE COPY OF THIS INSCRIBED AND SIGNED STEGNER TITLE. This was the author's third novel and is a story of a man grown old in war and his quest for peace with himself and the world. It is the story of a rejuvenation of mind and spirit and a drama of deep human emotion.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. On a Darkling Plain. Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1940.
Price: US$3950.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (1st) Ex-library copy: for bookstore in Syracuse, New York--only sign is 5-line stamp at bottom of first front end paper and plastic coating over dust jacket. DJ glued to covers inside, slightly smaller book, dark blue cloth, 231 lightly browned heavy pages. DJ too short at top and bottom front and back edges, small photo of young Stegner inside back flap. Spine very slightly askew. DJ has nick at spine bottom left, white back creased down center, very slightly soiled. Good, considering it is technically an ex-library.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
STEGNER, WALLACE. ON A DARKLING PLAIN. NEW YORK NY HARCOURT BRACE AND CO PUB 1940., 1940.
Price: US$4250.00 + shipping
Description: VG+/VG+. BOOK IS VERY NICE WITH JUST A TRACE OF RUB AT THE CORNERS, TENDER SPINE-ENDS WITH NO FRAYING, A SLIGHT TAP TO THE BOTTOM FRONT FORE-EDGE CORNER, RESIDUAL GLUE EVIDENCE OF BOOK PLATE ON THE FRONT PASTE-DOWN ENDPAPER, AND THE TEXT AND ENDPAPERS ARE CLEAN BUT SLIGHTLY TANNED. D.J. IS SLIGHTLY TANNED/SOILED ON THE SPINE AND REAR PANEL WITH LIGHT SOIL AND WEAR AT THE FORE-EDGE FOLDS. THERE WAS A BIT OF LOSS TO THE SPINE PANEL'S ENDS AND THE CORNERS THAT HAS BEEN PROFESSIONALLY RESTORED AND REFRESHED. A VERY NICE ATTRACTIVE AND CLEAN COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S VERY SCARCE SECOND BOOK WITH THE COLORS ON THE FRONT PANEL STILL BRIGHT AND NOT PRICE-CLIPPED AND SILVER SPINE TITLES BRIGHT. FIRST EDITION.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.