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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: "This edition is two hundred fifty numbered copies and ten presentation copies of which this is copy number 137" stated. Fine, if not new in plain brown/orange sun-faded/offset/smudged slipcase. Signed by Stegner and Wikstron.
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: #233/250cc, signed by Wallace Stegner-- who wrote the afterward-- and artist Karin Wikstrom. In faded slipcase.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Copy "M", folio size, 60 pp., signed by Wallace Stegner and Karin Wikstrom. John Steinbeck (1902-1968), considered "a giant of American letters", was best known for his portrayals of families in California, often exploring themes of alienation and injustice through "everyman" characters (n. b., info from Wikipedia). "Flight" is a short story, originally published in the collection "The Long Valley", on the subject of manhood, as the protagonist Pepe strives to fill his father's place. While in town, he kills a man and must fllee, and his subsequent trials reveal that Pepe is not only "trying to live up to the foolish and romantic ideal of manhood common to his kind, but [is] one of the incarnations of Everyman pursuing the ideals that, foolish or not. . .in the end give him stature and dignity" (per the afterword). Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) provides an afterword for this edition. Stegner was often called "The Dean of Western Writers"; he was a member of the faculty at Stanford University and founded its creative writing program. The Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford was named in his honour, and he is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977. In the afterword, Stegner analyses the themes and characters in the story, in the context of Steinbeck's other work as well as the literary movement at the time. Included in this publication by The Yolla Bolly Press are woodcuts by Swedish artist Karin Wikstrom (b. 1959), who has contributed illustrations for several other Press editions, including "The Inland Whale" by Theodora Kroeber and "Zapata" by John Steinbeck. Here, her prints evoke a pathos for the tragic fate of the characters in their pursuit of dreams and dignity. ___DESCRIPTION: Full natural linen with wrap-around tan illustration of desert landscape, white paper spine label with brown lettering, fore-edge uncut, tan endpapers, title page with orange woodcut by Karin Wikstrom, six colour woodcuts by Wikstrom tipped in throughout, orange woodcuts by Wikstrom throughout; Goudy Modern type, folio size (12.25" by 10.25"), pagination: [i-vi] 1-39 [40-42] 43-52 [53] [1 colophon], one of 10 presentation copies (of a total edition of 260), this lettered "M", signed by Wallace Stegner and Karin Wikstrom on the colophon. In a slipcase covered with brown paper. ___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean, the corners straight and unrubbed, the binding tight with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and free of prior owner markings; as new. The slipcase is fine also, strong and sturdy, clean overall, without wear. Overall an exceptional copy. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an unusually heavy volume and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John. Flight.Afterword by Wallace Stegner. Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, CA, 1984.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 250 copies (this no. 69); square 4to, pp. [8], 52, [4]; six color woodblocks by Karin Wikström, woodblock text illustrations; signed by Wikström and Stegner on colophon; full patterend buckram, paper label on spine; fine in a lightly rubbed red slipcase.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John. Flight. Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, CA, 1984.
Price: US$599.99 + shipping
Description: Designed by James and Carolyn Robertson. Includes an afterword by Wallace Stegner, signed by both Stegner and Wickstrom. #241 of 260 copies. Collectible. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Wayward Books, south dartmouth, MA, U.S.A.