Fire and Ice by Stegner, Wallace - 1941

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First Edition. Very good or a little better in a very good dust jacket with a little chipping at the top and bottom of the spine.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 214pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title stamped in white ink on the backstrip. Very good minus. The extremities are just a bit rubbed and bumped. Minor dusting to the extremities, and there is a slight lean to the spine. The endsheets have several large stains, and there is a small loss from the top fore-edge of the front free endsheet. In a good only dust jacket. The jacket has been laminated, and there are large areas of bubbling in the lamination. The inside flaps are stained. The edges have several closed tears, backed with tape. The longest closed tear is 1 and 1/4" long. One of the harder Stegner titles to find in this nice condition. Only 2500 were printed, and less than 2000 sold. Stegner's agents wrote on April 14, 1948 (seven years after publication) that "Wally Stegner says, with regret, that he cannot find any immediate use for 515 sets of sheets for Fire and Ice. I am afraid, therefore, that you will have to… Read More

Duell, Sloan and Pierce, 1941-01-01. First Edition. Hardbound. Very Good/Missing. Signed by Author. First edition stated. Flat signed by Stegner at an earlier date; he then added an inscription above that to the historian Richard Etulain on 5/20/86. No DJ. Book is in very good condition. Pages are clean, sharp cornered, securely bound. Endpapers and pastedowns, front and rear, show age toning, as do the margins of the half-title page. Blue boards show very minimal shelfwear. There is minor bumping to head and tail of spine; the white lettering and decorative element on the spine are still bright. Please see our photo.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 214pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth. Good/Very good. Jacket corners chipped with losses (more so at the head and foot of the spine) A few minor creases to head of jacket. Gentle rubbing to corners of boards. Signed by the author on the title page. One of the hardest to find Stegner titles. Only 2500 were printed, and less than 2000 sold. Colberg states that more than 500 sets of sheets of 'Fire and Ice' were pulped. Early Stegner work that follows the protagonist Paul Condon through his flirtations with communism. Colberg A5.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Worn. Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards (minor dusting to the top edge and a small discoloration on the foredge) in dust jacket with substantial tape reinforcements, mostly on the verso. The dust jacket is not price-clipped, but is wrinkled from the reinforcements.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First edition, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Wallace Stegner. 8vo, publisher’s original blue boards, lettered in white on the spine, in the original dustjacket. 214 pp. A near fine copy with only a hint of wear to the spine edges and with a jacket that is complete with inoffensive evidence of shelf wear to its edges. AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS RARE AND INSCRIBED STEGNER TITLE. The central figure in the novel is a fierce rebel, who is working his way through college, and who is more than ready to take arms against the injustice of the world he knows. He becomes desperately attracted to a girl of wealth and beauty who represents everything that he has forced himself to reject and disdain. The inscription is for Virginia, a close friend of Stegner and his "favorite reader". He signs very familiarly as "Wally". Stegner was a professor at Harvard when he wrote this book. Virginia was a friend at Harvard during the same time as Stegner's stint at… Read More