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Stegner, Wallace. THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, New York, 1943.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SIGNED by the Author on the half title, thick 8vo (8 3/4" x 6" x 2"), light blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, archival mylar-jacket added, [iv] + 515 pages. Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist and historian. Probably his most famous book is THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN (1943). A semi-autobiographical novel, it is Stegner's attempt at the Great American Novel: the tragedy of a family striving for the American dream but ending up in shady, half-baked schemes. The novel is named after the folk song "Big Rock Candy Mountain" about a mythical paradise. SIGNED UNCOMMON WAR EDITION. Published in a slightly thicker format than other editions. Original blue covers are somewhat rubbed with wear (visible mainly along gutters, head & foot of spine); moderately faded cloth with a spot or two of discoloration, a bubble (upper right front cover), and bumping to corners (mainly the lower right front). Front hinge tender. Minor cocking. No dj. Laid in is a ticket stub from a reading given by Wallace Stegner at the Harbourfront Reading Series in Toronto. No previous owner marks. Light uniform age-toning with clean pages. According to Colberg, Wallace Stegner: A Descriptive Bibliography, the first printing was around 15,000 copies (A7.1.a). First Edition, second printing, war edition.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. The Big Rock Candy Mountain. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed First-Lacking the Jacket. Red cloth book is Good overall. Bottom corners just worn through. Top corners intact but lightly bumped. Some very light spotting to the covers. Spine lettering in gilt is rubbed but all lettering is legible. Previous owner bookplate from the period.is located on the pastedown. Clean Stegner signature in pen on the title page. No other names or marking within. Stated First Edition -Quality Counts! All books shipped in Cardboard and all books with dust jackets have mylar jacket protectors.,
Seller: Avant Retro Books Sac Book Fair, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Big Rock Candy Mountain. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1943.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED. 515pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Red cloth covered boards. The spine and rear board have areas of abrasion, the spine ends and corners of the covers are gently bumped, and the gilt title on the spine has rubbed away a bit. The endpapers are discolored and there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. No dust jacket. A major work by this twentieth-century giant. Colberg A7.1.a. The saga of a family attempting to survive during the lean years of the early 20th century. Signed by Wallace Stegner on the title page.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed by Stegner on the title page, and scarce thus. Published byby arrangement with Duell, Sloan & Pearce. His ambitious autobiographical novel, which foregrounds the itinerant, dream-chasing Bo Mason modeled after his father, here "condensed for wartime reading." Stegner cut the book for this version by roughly 15 per cent (an interesting and often productive exercise, for any writer, as well of scholarly interest) and the editors of the series, Louis Untermeyer and Philip Van Doren Stern, condensed it further. Anoblong 64mo (sexagesimo), it'sdesigned to fit in a soldier's pocket. For more on the Armed Services Editions, see this New York Times article describing their important history inspired by a show at the New York Historical Society. Colberg A7.2. A good or very good copy with rubbing and light creasing, and tears to top and bottom of the wraps' rear hinge, but holding firm; toning to pages, otherwise clean. Scarce. We have seen no other signed copies of this edition.
Seller: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Big Rock Candy Mountain. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, New York, 1943.
Price: US$1280.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good + Book , square & tight binding with very minor wear at lower joints, no owner marks & Very Good Jacket, with edge wear& small loss at spine foot, not clipped ,Stated First Edition , First Print, Signed to title page, in archival protection
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. The Big Rock Candy Mountain. Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1943.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed first edition; a very good book in a very good plus dust jacket; this book is in very good condition with a minor cock to the binding and moderate shelf wear to the ends and edges including some rubbing to the corners of cloth.minor spotting is present to the head of the text block and some mild foxing to the free end papers.a bookplate is present on the front pastedown and a name is stamped on the front free end paper and on the first title page; housed in a very good plus dust jacket that shows light rubbing and chipping to the spine ends and corners with minimal loss of material. Overall, a clean and bright volume of this title which is very difficult to find in collectible condition, reportedly it had a small print run so there's not many of them out there! This copy is also inscribed by the author on the first title page. Protected in a mylar cover and shipped in a sturdy box.
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. Big Rock Candy Mountain. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Wallace Stegner on a laid in signature. An attractive dustjacket that is vibrant in color with some wear to the spine and edges. This original First State dustjacket has the printed price present on the front flap. The book is in nice condition. The binding is tight, with light wear to the panels. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a collectable copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION. We buy Stegner First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Big Rock Candy Mountain. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1943.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Signed by Wallace Stegner on the front free endpaper, inscribed to novelist Staunton Calvert at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, August 20, 1944. [iv], 515pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with light wear, additional inscription by someone else beneath authorial inscription, corner crease to front free endpaper, in a Very Good dust jacket, worn at extremities, slightly sunned spine panel (not too bad), unclipped ($3.00). An uncommon jacketed first of Stegner's breakout novel. It follows Bo Mason and his family in the search for the American Dream, signed the year after publication.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace.. The Big Rock Candy Mountain.. NY, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943, 1943.
Price: US$2625.00 + shipping
Description: NY, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. His "big" book which was also the source for some of his best short stories, red brick cloth binding, one of several binding types, with a Review Slip from the publisher, Colberg A7.1.a, this copy Signed by Stegner. Produced with wartime materials, but still a very good copy with some tape reinforcements to the verso of the jacket.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner Wallace. THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN. New York Duell,Sloan, and Pearce 1943, 1943.
Price: US$2695.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY STEGNER "For Jinny .Wally". Jinny was a very personal friend of many years. She and Stegner remained in touch with one another and were close for decades. 8vo, publishers original rust boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original dustjacket. 515 pp. A fine copy but for some subtle mellowing or evidence of age to the spine tips and wear to the jacket. The jacket does have some significant chipping to the spine panel and some edgewear. A FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY OF THIS VERY IMPORTANT STEGNER TITLE. THE RECIPIENT WAS A PERSONAL FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR'S FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. In every sense this is a "big" book. It was the author's big book, it was a big source book for the author's ongoing writing. It is big in the sweep of its canvas through the developing West from Nevada to Saskatchewan. It is big in its characters who, come hell and high water, never abandoned their pursuit of fat lands beyond the next range. And it is biggest of all perhaps in the stature of the major American novelist which it reveals.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.