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1 Wallace Stegner Between the Covers

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3 X (STEGNER, Wallace E.). (Story): Home to Utah in Story Magazine, August, New York: Story Magazine Wrappers. Neat owner stamp on the contents page else a fine, fresh copy, and very uncommon thus. Also includes stories by Edita Morris and Peter De Vries. # $150 X (STEGNER, Wallace) STRAUSS, Theodore. Night at Hogwallow. Boston: Little Brown First edition. Foredge a little foxed else fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a little rubbing and a couple of very minor nicks and tears. A novel of bloodlust and racial hatred in a Southern community, no biographical information about the author is provided. A curiosity one of the other four novelettes chosen for publication in a contest in which Remembering Laughter, Wallace Stegner's first regularly published book, was the first prize winner. The dustjacket design is similar to Stegner's book. Unaccountably, aside from this copy, we have never seen any of the other prize winners. # $85 $59.50 X (STEGNER, Wallace) CORCORAN, William. This Man, Joe Murray. Boston: Little, Brown First edition. Slightly soiled, else about fine in a price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with a little rubbing, a couple of very minor nicks and tears, and the rear flap re-attached internally. A labor novel about a young man and his lust for life and women, and the consequences as he grows older. A curiosity one of the other four novelettes chosen for publication in a contest in which Remembering Laughter, Wallace Stegner's first regularly published book, was the first prize winner. The jacket format is similar to Stegner's book. # $125

4 STEGNER, Wallace. The Big Rock Candy Mountain. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1943). Second edition. War edition. Contemporary owner's name on front pastedown, corners chewed, thus good only, lacking the dustwrapper. # $75 STEGNER, Wallace. The Big Rock Candy Mountain. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library Limited edition. Fine in full leather with gold stamping and raised bands, all edges gilt, silk ribbon place marker, silk endpapers that have faded slightly along the edges, with a special preface by him not included in the trade edition. Signed by the author. # $150 Blurbing In Sicily STEGNER, Wallace. Autograph Postcard Signed to the Publicity Director at New Directions. : Autograph Postcard Signed to David McDowell of New Directions. Postmarked 14 November 1949 from Stanford providing a blurb for the American edition of Elio Vittorini's In Sicily (which was not used on the first American edition) and mentioning Ernest Hemingway, who wrote an introduction for the book. Fine. Good content, in full: "Dear Mr. McDowell Thanks you the Vittorini and Bowles. The latter I haven't yet read, but the Vittorini is like a good brick fireplace. It draws and it sheds warmth and thank God it has a few ashes in it. The Hemingway introduction is a great man talking foolishly out of his prejudices. Wallace Stegner." The Bowles book in question was The Sheltering Sky. McDowell had a long and distinguished career in American publishing, working at New Directions, Random House, and Crown. For a short period in the late 1950s he and Ivan Obolensky published under their own imprint, most famously issuing the Pulitzer Prizewinning posthumous novel by his good friend James Agee, A Death in the Family. # $450

5 X STEGNER, Wallace and SCOWCROFT, Richard, editors. Stanford Short Stories Stanford CA: Stanford U. Press (1951). Advance Review copy with slip laid in. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper. A collection of short stories. # $75 X (Anthology) ABELL, Elizabeth, edited by. American Accent: Fourteen Stories by Authors Associated With the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. New York: Ballantine Books (1954). First edition. Fine in slightly tanned wrappers. Contributors include Carson McCullers, Jessamyn West, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., Wallace Stegner, May Sarton and Josephine Johnson. # $30 X (Anthology) MILLER, Nolan, edited by. New Campus Writing. New York: Bantam Books (1955). First edition. Near fine in lightly rubbed wrappers. Contributors include Wallace Stegner, Mark Schorer, Hudson Strode, Paul Engle, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Helen Hull, R.P. Blackmur, and Doris Betts. # $35

6 STEGNER, Wallace and Thomas A. BAILEY. Appreciation: The DeVoto Library and Papers The Cutler Book Fund. Stanford, California: Stanford University Libraries First edition. Fine in wrappers. Contains short articles by Stegner (Bernard DeVoto) and Bailey (Cutler Book Fund). # $15 STEGNER, Wallace and others. New Short Novels 2. New York: Ballantine Books (1956). First edition thus. Very good plus in wrappers. Four short novels: Field Guide To The Western Birds by Wallace Stegner, A Room At The Inn by Dachine Rainer, The Engines Of Hygeia by John Phillips, and The Man Who Studied Yoga by Norman Mailer. # $65 Perspectives USA: Vols New York: Intercultural Publications (1956). First editions. Issues 2 through 16. Fine in wrappers ranging from near fine to very good. Present in this set of the literary magazine (15 out of the 16 issues published) are stories by Eudora Welty, Wallace Stegner and Saul Bellow, poems by W.H. Auden, Ezra Pound and Allen Tate, and essays by John Kenneth Galbraith, James Baldwin and many others. # $100 STEGNER, Wallace. The City of the Living and Other Stories. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin First edition. Neat gift inscription verso of front fly, small tape shadows front pastedown where a small clipping was formerly attached, and covered by flaps and foxing to the endpapers, a very good copy in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with to small internal tape shadows, a tiny chip and some general light wear. Signed by the author. Despite a number of modest flaws, a presentable and pleasing copy as it appears on the shelf, of an increasingly uncommon title. # $450 $315

7 X (Western Americana) POWELL, John Wesley. The Exploration of The Colorado River. Chicago: University of Chicago (1957). Abridged edition. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. Fine in an almost fine dustwrapper. # $65 X MURPHY, Dennis. The Sergeant. New York: Viking First edition. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with wear over the edges. Dustwrapper blurbs by John Steinbeck and Wallace Stegner. # $45 X MURPHY, Dennis. The Sergeant. New York: Viking First edition. Advance Reading Copy. Fine in good, moderately soiled dustwrapper with a short, internally tape repaired tear to the bottom of the front fly, some wrinkling and a long, internally tape repaired tear to the rear panel, and light wear to the ends of the spine. Dustwrapper blurbs by John Steinbeck and Wallage Stegner. # $25

8 (HUXLEY, Aldous, Wallace Stegner, John Updike, William Stafford, Lew Welch, Mordecai Gorelik, Alex Karmel, Alan Friedman, Robert Peterson, Joanne de Longchamps, Donald Hall, Harold Witt, Stanley Kiesel, Leonard Wolf, Ben Shahn, and Ed Bunker) KENTFIELD, Calvin, George Dorsey and William H. Ryan, edited by. Contact 2. Sausalito, California: Angel Island Publications First edition. Near fine in wrappers. Literary magazine that includes works by Aldous Huxley, Wallace Stegner, John Updike, William Stafford, Lew Welch, Mordecai Gorelik, Alex Karmel, Alan Friedman, Robert Peterson, Joanne de Longchamps, Donald Hall, Harold Witt, Stanley Kiesel, Leonard Wolf, Ben Shahn, and Ed Bunker. # $15 STEGNER, Mary, edited by. Prize Stories 1960: The O. Henry Awards. New York: Doubleday & Company First edition. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. Pages lightly stained, spine cocked, pen notation on first introduction page, thus good only in a good only price-clipped dustwrapper with a chip on top front panel edge. Featuring: The Ledge by Lawrence Sargent Hall, Defender of the Faith by Philip Roth, Shower of Ashes by Robing White, and thirteen other stories. # $10 STEGNER, Wallace. A Shooting Star. New York: Viking First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some soiling and a short creased tear to the rear panel, and light wear to the extremities. # $75

9 X CONNELL, Evan and William ryan and Calvin Kentfield. Contact, Volume 2, Number 7, February California: Angel Island Publications First edition. Contributors include Wallace Stegner, William Saroyan, and Donald Barthelme. Very good. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, slight spine cock. # $14 X DeVOTO, Bernard, edited by. Four Portraits and One Subject: Bernard DeVoto: The Historian, The Writer, The Citizen, The Personality. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Spine ends lightly bumped, else fine in a very good dustwrapper with spine faded, sticker offsetting on front panel. Authors included are: Catherine Drinker Bowen, Edith R. Mirrielees, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr, and Wallace Stegner. # $20 X (Anthology) STEGNER, Wllace and Richard Scowcroft, edited by. Stanford Short Stories Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press First edition. Fine in very good, spine faded dustwrapper with some light rubbing and moderate wear to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels, as well as a three-inch tear to the bottom of the front panel. Contributors include: Arthur Edelstein, M.J. English, Merrill Joan Gerber, Ed McClanahan, Hugh Missenson, Karen Rosenbaum, Robert Stone and William O. Walker. # $60

10 STEGNER, Wallace. The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail. New York: McGraw-Hill (1964). First edition. A little sunning at the extremities, near fine in about very good dustwrapper with a slightly rubbed and toned spine, with a 2" tear on the rear panel near the crown. A non-fiction title in The American Trails Series. # $50 (NABOKOV, Vladimir) STEGNER, Page. Escape into Aesthetics: The Art of Vladimir Nabokov. New York: The Dial Press First edition. Price sticker on the front pastedown else fine in near fine, lightly soiled, price-clipped dustwrapper. The first book-length study of Nabokov, also the first of many books by the son of novelist Wallace Stegner (to whom the book is dedicated). # $16 (NABOKOV, Vladimir) STEGNER, Page. Escape into Aesthetics: The Art of Vladimir Nabokov. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode (1967). First UK edition. Fine in near fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper with a slightly creased tear to the bottom of the rear panel. The first book-length study of Nabokov, also the first of many books by the son of novelist Wallace Stegner (to whom the book is dedicated). # $30 STEGNER, Wallace. All the Little Live Things. New York: The Viking Press (1967). First edition. Very good plus with some yellowing to the top edge in a very good minus dustwrapper with two tears both the front and back panels. # $20

11 X STEGNER, Wallace. Angle of Repose. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a small, faint smudge on the spine. A superior copy of this cheaply manufactured Pulitzer Prize-winner, generally found in mediocre condition. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. # $1000 X (STEGNER, Wallace) Angle of Repose. San Francisco: San Francisco Opera [1976]. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Slight remnant of mailing label on the rear wrap else fine. A collection of brief (2 or 3pp. each) statements about the opera based on Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, by participants in the production including Stegner himself, and librettist (and novelist) Oakley Hall. Scarce. # $125 $87.50 X (Anthology) MADDEN, David, editor. Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover Neglected Works of Fiction by One of Their Favorite Authors. New York: Crown (1971). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of age-toning. A landmark anthology, with essays including Robert Penn Warren on Andrew Lytle, Wallace Stegner on Glenway Wescott, Evan S. Connell on Janet Lewis, Joyce Carol Oates on Harriet Arnow's The Dollmaker, Walker Percy on Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, and many others. # $45

12 (Anthology) MADDEN, David, editor. Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover Neglected Works of Fiction by One of Their Favorite Authors. New York: Crown (1971). First edition. Fine in a near fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper. A landmark anthology, with essays including Robert Penn Warren on Andrew Lytle, Wallace Stegner on Glenway Wescott, Evan S. Connell on Janet Lewis, Joyce Carol Oates on Harriet Arnow's The Dollmaker, Walker Percy on A Canticle for Leibowitz, and many others. # $35 STEGNER, Page. Hawks & Harriers. New York: The Dial Press First edition. Light spotting on top page fine edges, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with spine lightly faded. Father of the novelist Wallace Stegner. # $20 (Anthology) Teaching Creative Writing. Washington, D.C.: Published for the Library of Congress by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund First edition. Perfectbound wrappers. Bottom corner very slightly bumped, else fine. Transcript of symposia on various aspects of creative writing. Participants included Ralph Ellison, Wallace Stegner, John Ciardi, George Garrett, N. Scott Momaday, Miller Williams, John Barth, Ernest J. Gaines, Margaret Walker, and Paul Engle, among others. Scarce, and interesting. # $150 DE VETO, Bernard and Wallace Stegner, edited by. The Letters of Bernard De Voto. Garden City: Doubleday First edition. Edges tanned, else near fine in a near fine lightly tanned dustwrapper. # $10

13 X STEGNER, Wallace. The Spectator Bird. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company 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 # $550 X STEGNER, Wallace. Joe Hill. Lincoln, NE: U. of Nebraska Press First paperback. Fine softcover. First softcover edition by this publisher. # $10 X (Photography) PORTER, Eliot, Wallace Stegner and Page Stegner. American Places. New York: E.P. Dutton (1981). First edition. Large quarto. Small gift inscription, remainder spray bottom edge and lightly bumpted, near fine in fine, priceclipped dustwrapper. # $30 X STEGNER, Wallace and Page Stegner. American Places. New York: Greenwich House (1983). First Greenwich House edition, originally printed by Dutton in Square quarto. Illustrated by Eliot Porter. Spine slightly cocked, else near fine in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. # $22 X STEGNER, Wallace, Page Stegner and Eliot Porter. American Places. New York: Wings Books (1993). Later printing. Quarto. Edited by John Macrae, III. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Photos by Porter accompany text by the Stegners. # $25

14 ABBEY, Edward et al. The 1983 Western Wilderness Calendar. (Np - Salt Lake City): Dream Garden Press (1982). Stapled wrappers. Fine. Each month represented by a different western wilderness photograph and quotes from different authors including Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, Leslie Silko, Barry Lopez, Tom McGuane, John Nichols, William Eastlake, and others. This copy Signed by one of the represented photographers, John Telford. # $125 STEGNER, Wallace. The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard Devoto. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith (1988). Advance Reading copy. Very good plus in wrappers. # $20 ANTHONY, Carolyn. Family Portraits: Remembrances By Twenty Distinguished Writers. New York: Doubleday (1989). Book club edition. Very good with owner's name on front pastedown, lacking the dustwrapper. Writings by Mary Higgins Clark, Susan Kenney, Margaret Atwood, Clyde Edgerton, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, Walker Percy, Wallace Stegner, and Others. # $10 COLBERG, Nancy. Wallace Stegner: A Descriptive Bibliography. Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press (1990). First edition. Fine without dustwrapper as issued. Advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. # $60

15 X STEGNER, Wallace; Wright Morris; Ivan Doig. A Land Fair and Bright: Growing Up in the American West; Wolf Willow; Will's Boy; This House of Sky. New York: Book of the Month Club (1993). Book club edition. Introduction by T.H. Watkins. Small stain on rear fly, corners lightly bumped, else near fine in a near fine dustwrapper. # $10 X STEGNER, Lynn. Undertow. Dallas: Baskerville (1993). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. First book, by Wallace Stegner's daughter-in-law. # $15 X McCOWN, Clint. The Member-Guest. New York: Doubleday (1995). Advance Reading copy. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Author's first book, a collection of short stories, two of which were American fiction Awardwinners. Blurbs from Wallace Stegner and Louise Erdrich. # $35 $24.50 X STEGNER, Page and Mary Stegner, edited by. The Geography of Hope: A Tribute to Wallace Stegner. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books (1996). Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Very light sticker offsetting on front wrapper, else near fine. Publisher's letter with a xerox of what the cover illustration will be laid in. # $65

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