Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Stegner, Wallace. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Presumed 1st edition; 403 clean, unmarked, tight pages; light scuffing on outer edges; cover is sturdy with slightly bumped and frayed corners, a little damp staining, rubbing at top and bottom edges, and small tears at both ends of spine
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later printing. Old price inked on front flyleaf. Full cloth binding, rubbed at spine ends. Lacking jacket. x, 403pp. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
Seller: Turn-The-Page Books, Skyway, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 8 vo, 403 pp. Bound in Orange cloth, with black horizontal lines, and blue title on spine only, with H.M.Co.at base. Copyright: 1950, verso only. Likely First Edition, later Printing. Author of Forward is not identified. Condition: Cover cloth worn through on all corners and head and tail of spine. Spine faded, covers less so. Top Edge is dark brown. No jacket. Interior: First fep is neatly cut out. PON on front paste-down is blocked out with blue marker. Binding is square in spite of the weak front hinge. And text is unmarked.
Seller: A Few Books More. . ., Billings, MT, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First printing of first edition, with matching dates on title and copyright pages. Good in a Fair only dust jacket. Orange cloth boards with some fading at head of spine and a dampstain to bottom corner of rear board. Book is otherwise Very Good. Previous owner name on front endpage, but contents and binding in nice shape. Jacket is edge-worn with chips and tears, plus a bit of loss at spine head. There's a single tape repair on reverse side to a lengthy tear along the rear joint (at spine and rear panel). Faint dampstain to rear panel. Publisher's $3.75 price intact on front flap. 403 pages.
Seller: Brazos Bend Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$59.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early printing. A clean and bright NF copy in a VG+ dust jacket with the price of $3.75 intact on the front flap.
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards show mild edegwear and soiling at top and bottom of spine. Dj is edgeworrn, missing smallish pieces at top and bottom of spine. Front flyleaf and endpaper toned. Pages lightly toned. Careful packing and fast, efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. International Priority Air Mail shipping available for this item.
Seller: Alphaville Books, Inc., Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
STEGNER, Wallace. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. A little fraying at the crown, a near very good copy in tattered and worn dustwrapper with chips, tears, and splits. Novel based on the life of Joe Hill, martyred tramp and union organizer.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fictionalized life of labor hero Joe Hill, later reprinted as 'Joe Hill'. First edition (first printing) with date on title page. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, but ex-department store lending library with rubberstamp, date, and scribbled-out name on free endsheet; no other marks noted; jacket edgeworn, chipped, creased, with short tears, faded spine, sticker-removal scar. Text clean; x, [2], 403 pages. Size: Octavo
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edgewear, including some flaking at top edges; fading to cover probably caused by dampness, small dampstains to back corner and top page block. Chips and closed tears to dustjacket, some repaired with tape ; Overall solid copy with clean pages, tight binding. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket. ; 403 p.
Seller: Berkshire Books, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
STEGNER, Wallace.. Preacher And The Slave.. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 403 pp. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Near fine; small area of fading to binding behind chip at top of spine. The jacket has a chip about 2inches by 1 inch, taking most of the top of the spine and extending into the front panel, affecting lettering on both panels.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Boston. 1950. Houghton Mifflin. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Chipped & Worn Dustjacket With A Few Tears. 403 pages. hardcover. Jacket by William Barss. keywords: History Biography America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Preacher and the Slave (1950; reprinted as Joe Hill in 1969), a fictional biography of International Workers of the World bard Joe Hill, takes Stegner's concern with the individual in history to new ground and troubling conclusions when the legend of the Wobbly martyr and the reality of hold-up man and troubled loner collide without resolution. The important later novel Angle of Repose (1971), for which Stegner was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, shows a West, both past and present, in which the social contradictions and historical paradoxes parallel those of the book's characters. inventory #18469 Very Good in Slightly Chipped & Worn Dustjacket With A Few Tears
Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good first edition in a very good dust jacket.
Seller: The Lost Bookstore, Spartanburg, SC, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace [Joe Hill]. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 403pp. Octavo [22 cm] Orange cloth covered boards with a blue ink stamped title on the spine and black ink linear patterns on the spine and front cover. Publisher's black topstain. Spine a bit rolled back; bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. In the dust jacket, designed by William Barss, with sunning to the spine and light chipping to the edges, more so at the spine ends. A scarce Stegner novel based on the life of Joe Hill, later republished as Joe Hill. Colberg #A11.1.a.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace [Joe Hill]. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 403pp. Octavo [22 cm] Orange cloth covered boards with a blue ink stamped title on the spine and black ink linear patterns on the spine and front cover. Publisher's black topstain. Covers a bit cocked. In the dust jacket, designed by William Barss, with light chipping to the edges and mild toning to the spine and rear panel. The jacket is price-clipped. A scarce Stegner novel based on the life of Joe Hill, later republished as Joe Hill. Colberg #A11.1.a.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
STEGNER, Wallace. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin. Boston, 1950.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG-/VG-. First edition, first printing. 403 pp.
Seller: Limestone Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
STEGNER, Wallace.. The Preacher and the Slave.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 403 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Some light spotting and faint browning to endsheets; else a very good copy in an attractive jacket with some slight overall ageing, some light chipping to the extremities of the spine (not affecting any lettering), and a short closed tear to the top of the front panel.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, hardcover, has slight bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a ding to the head of the covers, faint sunning to the spine and head, a previous owner's label affixed to the first free end page, and a small sticker peel and brief penciled note to the rear pastedown. Overall, a solid, tight, Near Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has sun toning to the spine, bumps with creasing and small chips to the spine ends and corners, and wear with short creased tears to the edges. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available by request.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace.. The Preacher and the Slave.. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1950, 1950.
Price: US$498.75 + shipping
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1950, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Jacket illustration by William Barss, a novel based on the outlaw life of Joe Hill (Joe Hillstrom), the militant leader of the "Wobblies" (the IWW), one of 6,000 copies, Colberg A11.1.a, this is a Review Copy with review slip. Nearly fine in a very good jacket.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brick red cloth stamped in blue and black. To the half title it is inscribed by Stegner to well-known collector, Maury Dunbar. Spotting along the upper page edges. To the front pastedown is the bookplate of Dunbar. To the front free endpaper there is glued a color photograph showing Stegner signing a book for a prominent bookseller and it is identified in pen below the photo. It is otherwise clean and tight. The dust jacket has old, unnecessary masking tape along the upper, interior edges as well as to the lower, verso spine area. This has caused staining along these areas to the exterior. There is some sunning along the spine. Light edge wear. Price of $3.75 to the front flap, ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 403 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. The Preacher and the Slave (First Edition). Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing. A near-fine copy in a very good jacket. A clean copy with price ($3.75) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has some chipping, creasing, and a closed tear on the rear cover (as pictured). Light foxing on edges. Faint offsetting on front and back matter (as pictured). Fiction-S.
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
STEGNER, Wallace.. The Preacher and the Slave.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: 403 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. A fresh, near fine copy in a beautiful jacket with absolutely no fading and just a touch of rubbing to a few small areas of the spine. A spectacular copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. THE PREACHER AND THE SLAVE. Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
Price: US$1628.50 + shipping
Description: THE PREACHER AND THE SLAVE, Houghton Mifflin, 1950, first edition, very fine in fine full color pictorial dust-wrapper with the slightest of flaking to the fore edge corner tips of the front dust-wrapper fold and a short closed tear to the base of the rear dust-wrapper panel. Rare in this condition. The life and times of Joe Hill, martyr of the Workers of The Industrial World.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Stegner Wallace. THE PREACHER AND THE SLAVE. Boston Houghton Mifflin 1950, 1950.
Price: US$1815.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, "AFFECTIONATELY" INSCRIBED, DATED AND SIGNED by the author as "Wally". 8vo, publishers original orange boards, the spine and upper cover lettered in black, in the original dustjacket. 403 pp. A very attractive copy but for subtle fading to the upper spine edge and a two inch square chip to the spine panel of the jacket. A COPY AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY STEGNER. A sweeping and epic novel of life and legend. The author created here an ambitious, burning, vain, shy and violent figure in a book of astute insight and real action. The book was called a profound study of a complex human being and an exploration of the uses of violence and the meaning of justice. As Ken Sanders has said, the book is 'based on the life of Joe Hill who was executed by a firing squad at the old territorial prison in Salt Lake City, in what became known as the "shot heard round the world", setting off labor riots in major U.S. cities and capitals around the globe. Joe Hill's last words were "don't mourn, organize". Joe Hill, along with Mother Jones and Big Bill Heywood, were the most famous of all the anarchist wobbly leaders of the early 20th century.'
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
Price: US$1900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition/First Printing; A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket, housed in a custom slipcase. SIGNED w/o inscription to the half title page. A handsome copy of this early work by Stegner; uncommon signed. This copy is in very good condition with a square binding (front hinge shaken but completely intact), bright blue lettering over pale red boards, and clean white pages throughout; the book does show some fading and spotting to the top stain, some minor rubbing to the board edges, and a previous bookstore's sticker to the front free paper. Housed in a crisp and bright very good original and completely intact dust jacket that shows some creasing and rubbing to the spine ends, edges , and corners, a few small closed tears to the edges ( a small tape repair has been done to the verso of the spine head), and some mild chipping to the corners. Overall, a sharp and presentable copy, very scarce signed by Stegner w/o inscription. Not price clipped ($3.75 intact), not ex-library; in a protective cover and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Preacher and the Slave. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A spectacular copy. This original dustjacket is rich in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is bound in the publisher's blue cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.