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The Big Rock Candy Mountain
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 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.
Synopsis
Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune—in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Stegner portrays more than thirty years in the life of the Mason family in this masterful, harrwoing saga of people trying to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140945870
- Title
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan and Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- signed, Mormon, America, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Sunned
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- Inscribed
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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