The City of the Living

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1956. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription, by the author on the half title page. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the bottom spine end of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is one small spot of paper lifted to the top corner of the front endpaper from rubbing. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, though there is some light toning and ground-in dirt to the white portions. There are several very small mostly closed edge tears and some beginning rubbing and edge wear. This volume contains a series of short stories including: The Blue-Winged Teal, The City of the Living, Pop Goes the Alley Cat, Maiden in a Tower, Impasse, the Volunteer, Field Guide to the Western Birds, and, The Traveler. "He served as a special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall and was elected to the Sierra Club's board of directors for a term that lasted 1964–1966. He also moved into a house near Matadero Creek on Three Forks Road in nearby Los Altos Hills and became one of the town's most prominent residents. In 1962, he co-founded the Committee for Green Foothills, an environmental organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the hills, forests, creeks, wetlands and coastal lands of the San Francisco Peninsula. Stegner's novel Angle of Repose (first published by Doubleday in early 1971) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972. Yet it was based on the letters of Mary Hallock Foote (first published in 1972 by Huntington Library Press as the memoir A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West). Stegner explained his use of unpublished archival letters briefly at the beginning of Angle of Repose but his use of uncredited passages taken directly from Foote's letters caused a continuing controversy." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author .