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, publisher’s 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.