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Stegner, Wallace. The Spectator Bird. Doubleday, New York, 1976.
Price: US$64.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Inscribed by Author. Size: 8vo <9 3/4". 214 pp. Binding firm. Foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket creased and chipped, with one large tear and some loss. Edges foxed and browned. Covers slightly marked. Corners bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; United States; Modern; Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 0385078900. ISBN/EAN: 9780385078900. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 39632.
Seller: Dreadnought Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Wallace Stegner. The Spectator Bird. Doubleday, 1976.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Inscribed to Agnes Albert, longtime supporter of the arts and music education. Covers shelfworn and tanned along top edge. Dust jacket worn and chipped.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Spectator Bird. Doubleday 1976, 1976.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition. Edges lightly toned, stain to lower rear affecting some back pages, near fine in dust jacket with same stain lower edge and lower spine an otherwise unread copy in mylar cover. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper; Signed by Author(s)
Seller: Herland Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace Earle. The Spectator Bird. Doubleday, 1976.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed in blue ink on the front free endpaper: "For Larry Haggard, Cordially, Wallace Stegner." This book won the National Book Award. Very good book with a slight slant to spine and very light soiling/sunning to board edges. In a very good jacket with some damp staining to rear lower corner and the flap. Some attendant slight waviness to the rear free endpaper, one sheet only. Also a small damp stain to lower outer corner of front board. One scratch to front panel of dust jacket. Despite these flaws, a worthwhile copy. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
Seller: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, U.S.A.
Wallace Stegner. The Spectator Bird. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1976.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good first edition, signed by Stegner on title page. Binding square and tight. Slight bumping to ends of spine. Some tape residue and discolouration to front and back cover. Minor tape residue and library stamps to free front end paper. Minor tape residue and book pocket residue to back end paper. Small stamp to upper left hand corner of interior of back cover. Good dust jacket. Price-clipped. Slight wear to ends of spine. Slight discolouration to spine. Two slight creases to top of front cover. Minor discolouration and very slight creases to back cover. Minor creases and miniscule tear to front flap. Slight crease to back flap. Minor wear to folds. Some tape residue and discolouration to interior of jacket. Overall, a nice signed first edition by the American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winning author.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Stegner, Wallace Earle. The Spectator Bird. Doubleday, 1976.
Price: US$175.55 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Signed by Wallace Stegner on the title page below his name. 8vo (5.5 x 8.5 in.). Quarter bound with textured white paper and black cloth. Stamped silver titling on spine. Clean, no stains. Slight wear at top & bottom of spine, Toning along board edges. Corners are sharp, pages are clean. Jacket cover is aqua-textured graphic with black and cream titling. Black titles on spine, author photo and thumb-nail bio on rear. There are 2 closed separations on the top-front edge, one on the lower-rear corner. The spine-bottom has 2 separations and a bit of missing paper. It is in a clear mylar sleeve which mitigates some the flaws. This novel was Stegner's his first following "Angle of Repose" for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. "The Spectator Bird" was awarded the National Book Award.
Seller: Brodsky Bookshop, Taos, NM, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. THE SPECTATOR BIRD - Signed. Doubleday, NY, 1976.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED BY WALLACE STEGNER.
Seller: Feldman's Books, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace. The Spectator Bird. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, NY, 1976.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. [5], 6-214, [2] pp. White patterned paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award, this novel is Stegner's exploration of issues surrounding old age and death. Inscribed by author on free front endpaper.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
STEGNER, Wallace. The Spectator Bird. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1976.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First trade edition. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with small crease on rear panel, a tiny tear at the head of spine, and a crease along the front flap fold. Despite a litany of small defects an above average copy of this National Book Award winning novel. Inscribed by Stegner. From the Library of Bruce Kahn.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Stegner, Wallace Earle. The Spectator Bird. Doubleday, U.S.A., 1976.
Price: US$537.63 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fine Book & Fine- Jacket, clipped else Fine, Signed , First Edition First Print w/ R10 code, in protective cover, National Book Award Winner
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
STEGNER, Wallace.. The Spectator Bird.. Garden City, New York Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976, 1976.
Price: US$968.82 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Harry and Carol Shlaudeman, remembered and missed. Wallace Stegner, Atherton, May 2, 1976." Harry W. Shlaudeman (b. 1926) had a long and distinguished career in the Foreign Service of the US State Department, serving as ambassador to Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and Nicaragua. Octavo. Original cream boards with black cloth back, titles to spine in silver. With dust jacket. Spine ends a touch rubbed, light tanning to boards and edges. An excellent copy in a price-clipped, slightly toned jacket with a few small nicks and chips to head of spine.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom