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Stegner, Wallace. Second Growth. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of the first edition. Signed and inscribed by Stegner directly on the front-free endpaper. Slight spine lean, light rubbing to board edge, and age-toning to page margins, else book in fine condition; in dust jacket with a few closed tears, creasing (primarily to bottom front cover), age-toning, and moderate paper loss at spine ends and corners.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. Second Growth. Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston., 1947.
Price: US$390.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/VG. First edition, first printing. Signed (with brief inscription) by author on fep. PO name on fep. Jacket edges and corners shelfworn. Age toning to back of jacket. Small chip top of spine. 240 pp.
Seller: Limestone Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. Second Growth. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1947. A nice bright copy of the first - near fine with just the slightest trace of rubbing to the spine ends and a previous woners signature. Dust jacket very good with a bit of wear to the spine ends and the edges and a small worn spot to the top of the front panel .Two page illustration preceding text. Stegner has inscribed this copy. One of the author's more difficult titles to acquire signed, particularly in agreeable condition.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Stegner Wallace. SECOND GROWTH. Boston Houghton Mifflin 1947, 1947.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Affectionately INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY STEGNER "TO J. P., the favorite reader of this author * * Wallace Stegner". 8vo, publishers original green boards, the spine and upper cover lettered in navy, in the original dustjacket. 240pp. A fine copy but for subtle fading to the spine edge and gentle wear to the jacket. A HANDSOME COPY OF THIS VERY PERSONALLY INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION AND IMPORTANT STEGNER TITLE. Set in a village in New Hampshire the book tells the story of one way of life warred with another, native against outsider, the static against the changing. Modernity and change came with the summer people, a quiet group who sought the upland farms and the lakeside cottages, while the toughness of a sound old tradition remained with the villages and farmers. Between the two, caught in the crossfire between the contending forces, were a handful of people who belong to neither, or to both. The book is a story of familiar experience, a universal story.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.