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THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN
by Stegner Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Duell,Sloan, and Pearce, 1943. 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, publisher’s 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.
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
- Buddenbrooks, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27812
- Title
- THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN
- Author
- Stegner Wallace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Duell,Sloan, and Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
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About the Seller
Buddenbrooks, Inc.
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Newburyport, Massachusetts
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Chipping
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- Spine
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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