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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 Stegner explained his use of unpublished archival letters briefly at the beginning of Angle of Repose but his use of uncredited passages taken directly from Foote's letters caused a continuing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.
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, 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. 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.