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The Big Rock Candy Mountain. Signed, Leatherbound Limited Edition, First Thus, with "Notes From the Editors". Charles Reid Illustrations.
by Stegner, Wallace
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Item Price
£438.13£394.32
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Charles Reid. Fine; As New. Pristine. See scans and description. Signed, limited 1978 Edition. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Signed, limited edition and First Edition thus. The scarce, original 22-page "Notes From The Editors" is included. Signed by Wallace Stegner in black ink on the third free endpaper, with tissue guard. Full-color illustrations by Charles Reid, whose soft yet realistic offerings really do reflect the tenor of the novel. Octavo, 733 pp. As New; immaculate, flawless and pristine. See scans. Franklin's lavish leather binding of the Signed, Limited Edition of Stegner's semi-autobiographical epic 1943 novel. Reid's illustrations are original for this edition, and you' wish you could hang them on your wall. Binding is rich russet leather, decorated and imprinted in gilt; spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, russet moire endpapers, and a matching satin page-marker ribbon. The gilt is 22 karat, and the paper is 55-pound High Opaque, specially milled for this volume. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; pristine and flawless, and protectively archived since arrival; page-marker has in fact never been moved. With the author's newly-contributed "A Special Message to Subscribers from Wallace Stegner" prefacing the novel. Scarce (particularly with the Notes From the Editors, laid-in) and strikingly handsome. Show this one off on the cocktail table; get a market copy to read. See images. l-frnkln3
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- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60985
- Title
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain. Signed, Leatherbound Limited Edition, First Thus, with "Notes From the Editors". Charles Reid Illustrations.
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Illustrator
- Charles Reid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 733
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Classics, Literary, Historical, General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics of Fiction From All Eras;
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- Gilt
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