Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (so stated), 1st printing. Author's first book. INSCRIBED BY STEGNER on half-title page: "For Al Abrams, this copy of the first one. Cordially, Wallace Stegner." The is a presentation copy from Redbook magazine, stated as such on a tipped-in page. Some sunning to boards and spine, otherwise about VERY GOOD+. Open tear affecting the "e" in "The" of the banner stating "The $2500 Prize Novelette" at top of front cover, 2 smaller open tears at bottom of front cover, closed tear to back top cover, otherwise a GOOD+ dust jacket with the original $1.25 price intact. A scarce signed presentation copy.
Seller: Agathon Books, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. Remembering Laughter. Little, Brown and Company, 1937.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition in original jacket, signed by the author. Name of previous owner on inside front cover, otherwise unmarked. Some spotting on end leaves, none on inside pages. Jacked clean but tanned; worn and chipped on edges and corners. Not price clipped. Front flap detached but held on with plastic jacket. Cloth covers and spine faded but legible.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace Earle. Remembering Laughter. Little Brown & Co, Boston, 1937.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In pictorial jacket over grey cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 154pp. Wallace Stegner's first book which was published as a winner of Little Brown's $2500 Prize Novelette Contest. This copy is signed and inscribed on half-title page, by Stegner: "for Geoff Kreps -- Wallace Stegner". (Jacket with moderate shelfwear and rubbing to extremities, short tear to jacket at upper panel edge, flap clipped, some fading to cloth, light staining to cloth at upper tip, uniform toning to page edges). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. Remembering Laughter. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1937.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Damp-fading to front, back cover and spine. Pages 123-54 age-toned; interior is otherwise clean and unmarked. Large chips and closed tears to dustjacket (in protective mylar cover); Very Good- in Very Good- dustjacket. Stegner's first book and the winner of a Little, Brown short fiction contest; jacket reads "The $2500 Prize Novelette." Signed by Stegner on title page; 5.25x7.75"; 154 p.; Signed by Author
Seller: Berkshire Books, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner Wallace. REMEMBERING LAUGHTER. Boston Little Brown 1937, 1937.
Price: US$1815.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED VERY PERSONALLY to J., the original "dear reader", by Stegner, signing as "Wally". 8vo, publishers original blue boards, the spine and upper cover gilt lettered, in the original dustjacket. 154 pp. A very nice copy, some offset from the dustjacket spine lettering to the spine of the book, and a few minorl chips to the jacket edges. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THIS VERY PERSONAL INSCRIBED AND SIGNED STEGNER TITLE. A prize winning novelette, it was Wallace Stegner's first book. It was awarded the Little, Brown prize. Stegner considered J. his favorite reader and wrote as much when he inscribed another book to her in later years.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.