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The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. Stated First edition. HC w DJ. MV VG+/VG. Green cloth, gilt titling, edgewear to tips, some smudges, ink names to top-edge, yellow endpapers, FO embossed stamp to half-title, unmarked, binding tight. Clipped DJ, light edgewear heaviest to tips, some toning. Second state w periodicals credits on copyright page (Colberg). PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.
Synopsis
The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner emerged as an important conservationist and novelist. This collection is divided into two sections: the first features eloquent sketches of the West's history and environment, directing our imagination to the sublime beauty of such places as San Juan and Glen Canyon; the concluding section examines the state of Western literature, of the mythical past versus the diminished present, and analyzes the difficulties facing any contemporary Western writer. The Sound of Mountain Water is both a hymn to the Western landscape, an affirmation of the hope embodied therein, and a careful investigation of the West's cultural and natural legacy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Refuge Books: Used & Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230175
- Title
- The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- HC w DJ
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Stated First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1969
- Pages
- 286
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- VG+/VG
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
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