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Stegner, Wallace. Second Growth. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 221pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Green cloth with title in gilt on front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Head and foot of jacket trimmed. Mild wear to front free endsheet and rear pastedown from bookplate removal A9.3.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. Second Growth. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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 first edition from the author of Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. Second Growth. Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press, Boston, Cambridge, 1947.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Colberg A9.1.a]. 8vo, green cloth, pp. [xvi], 240, illustrated (with a frontispiece map of the town of Westwick). A verg good copy in a tight binding. Dust jacket has substantial edgewear, some chipping around the spine, and a small jagged piece missing from the lower front. Price is intact on front fold down. Overall, a very good copy of this inexpensively produced war-era novel. All books are carefully wrapped in both white plain paper and bubble wrap to PREVENT shipping damage.
Seller: Pierian Spring Books, Sandy, UT, U.S.A.
STEGNER, Wallace. Second Growth. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. Green cloth. About fine in very good dust jacket with light wear at the crown, a couple of short tears, and a single, early tape mend on verso of rear panel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. Second Growth. Houghton Mifflin Company at The Riverside Press, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, hardcover, has a mild lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a thin area of faint soiling to the fore edge of the front cover, and some foxing to the pages and the head of the text block. Overall, a solid, tight, Near Very Good copy in an unclipped, Good dust jacket, which has bumps with creasing and small chips to the spine ends and corners, rubbing with some faint soiling to the covers, strong foxing to the back, wear along the edges and folds, and some sunning to the spine. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
STEGNER, Wallace. Second Growth. Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 1947., 1947.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: VG/VG. Archival tape repair to upper right corner of jacket. 240 pp. First Edition. Only 10,000 copies in first printing.
Seller: Limestone Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. Second Growth. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of this novel by Wallace Stegner about a rural Village in New Hampshire, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing.Illustrated with a double page map to the front.In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.This work was written by American Pulitzer Prize winning author Wallace Stegner, and follows a New Hampshire village and its residents who are torn between modernity and tradition. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with slight bumping to the spine. Small tidemarks to the tail corners of the front endpapers. The wrap is generally smart with handling marks to the rear, a tidemark to the tail corner of the front, chipping and closed tears to the extremities and slight sunning to the spine. Internally firmly bound with age toned pages and spotting to the front and rear with the odd spot throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Stegner, Wallace. Second Growth. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of the first edition. Signed and inscribed by Stegner directly on the front-free endpaper. Slight spine lean, light rubbing to board edge, and age-toning to page margins, else book in fine condition; in dust jacket with a few closed tears, creasing (primarily to bottom front cover), age-toning, and moderate paper loss at spine ends and corners.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. Second Growth. Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston., 1947.
Price: US$390.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/VG. First edition, first printing. Signed (with brief inscription) by author on fep. PO name on fep. Jacket edges and corners shelfworn. Age toning to back of jacket. Small chip top of spine. 240 pp.
Seller: Limestone Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace.. SECOND GROWTH.. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN. BOSTON 1947, 1947.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Close to fine in . Very good+ dust jacket. (A few mild spots of rubbing on paste down where a bookplate was neatly removed. 1" 1/2"- inch closed tear on rear panel at bottom edge. Tiny chip & traces of edge wear at crest of spine) 10,000 copies printed.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. Second Growth. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1947. A nice bright copy of the first - near fine with just the slightest trace of rubbing to the spine ends and a previous woners signature. Dust jacket very good with a bit of wear to the spine ends and the edges and a small worn spot to the top of the front panel .Two page illustration preceding text. Stegner has inscribed this copy. One of the author's more difficult titles to acquire signed, particularly in agreeable condition.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Stegner Wallace. SECOND GROWTH. Boston Houghton Mifflin 1947, 1947.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Affectionately INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY STEGNER "TO J. P., the favorite reader of this author * * Wallace Stegner". 8vo, publishers original green boards, the spine and upper cover lettered in navy, in the original dustjacket. 240pp. A fine copy but for subtle fading to the spine edge and gentle wear to the jacket. A HANDSOME COPY OF THIS VERY PERSONALLY INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION AND IMPORTANT STEGNER TITLE. Set in a village in New Hampshire the book tells the story of one way of life warred with another, native against outsider, the static against the changing. Modernity and change came with the summer people, a quiet group who sought the upland farms and the lakeside cottages, while the toughness of a sound old tradition remained with the villages and farmers. Between the two, caught in the crossfire between the contending forces, were a handful of people who belong to neither, or to both. The book is a story of familiar experience, a universal story.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.