The Spectator Bird
by Stegner, Wallace
Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. His novel, The Spectator Bird, won the National Book Award in 1977.
The main character, Joe Allston, is seventy years old, living with his wife Ruth, and finds himself growing bored and bitter. Then he receives an unexpected postcard from an old friend. This causes him to return to the journals he kept from a trip taken long ago to search for his mother’s roots in Denmark. What follows is a quest to discover more about the noble Danish family he uncovers, along with revealing secrets regarding eugenics and incest that the family uses to produce a breed of superior humans. A breathless, psychological experience most brilliantly written.
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The Spectator Bird
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Doubleday, New York, 1976. First Public Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Inscribed by Author. Size: 8vo <9 3/4". 214 pp. Binding firm. Foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket creased and chipped, with one large tear and some loss. Edges foxed and browned. Covers slightly marked. Corners bumped. Quantity Available:… Read more about this item Item Price
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Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Decorated brown leather. Illustrated by John Collier. Limited edition preceding the trade edition of his National Book Award winner with a one-page introduction by Stegner not in the trade edition.
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First trade edition. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with small crease on rear panel, a tiny tear at the head of spine, and a crease along the front flap fold. Despite a litany of small defects an above average copy of this National Book Award… Read more about this item Item Price
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Franklin C: The Franklin Library, 1976. First Edition. Limited Edition Fine in full, dark blue leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work in the compartments and with gilt designs and borders on the boards. All edges of the text block are gilt. The end sheets are silk… Read more about this item Item Price
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [5], 6-214, [2] pp. White patterned paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award, this novel is Stegner's exploration of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library. Fine with no dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. Green leather, titled/decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, hubbed spine, ribbon marker, moire endpages. Signed by Stegner to the half title page. Just a hint of shelfwear to the gilt edges. Tight and unread. Notes booklet laid in. ; 8vo 8" - 9"… Read more about this item Item Price
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Stegner, Wallace. The Spectator Bird. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1976. First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. 214 [2] pp. Signed by Stegner on card tipped to front free end paper. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
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Garden City, New York Doubleday & Company, Inc.,, 1976. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Harry and Carol Shlaudeman, remembered and missed. Wallace Stegner, Atherton, May 2, 1976." Harry W. Shlaudeman (b. 1926) had a long and distinguished career in the Foreign Service of the US State Department, serving… Read more about this item Item Price
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Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine. 8vo. [17], 4-267, [5] pp. Green leather with gold decorations on the boards and spine; all edges gilt. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Green silk ribbon bookmark bound in. With full-page color illustrations by John Collier. With the promotional ephemera laid in. The true first edition… Read more about this item Item Price
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [5], 6-214, [2] pp. White patterned paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award, this novel is Stegner's exploration of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. John Collier. Beautiful Book, Franklin Library, The First edition Society, Full Leather heavily stamped with gilt ornamentation and embellishments, 4 raised bands on spine with title, author and ornamentation in panels. Never Read Condition with No previous owner bookplate or writing, perfect green silk moiree end papers,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Franklin Center, Pa: The Franklin Library, 1976. Inscribed to friend, Jeanne Corle, wife of author Edwin Corle, and signed by author on limited first edition leaf in red sharpie. This was not a signed limited edition. This is scarce on the market. This is the only copy I am aware of. Textblock tight and square. All… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First trade edition, with no further printings noted. SIGNED by Stegner on the free endpaper. Unclipped jacket, now in mylar, with wear and slight loss to head, tail and corners (see photos). Slight darkening to edges of boards. Pages clean and unmarked. 214pp. 8.5 x… Read more about this item Item Price
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Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Leather Bound, Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. ; First Franklin Library… Read more about this item Item Price
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Franklin Library. Very Good. 0x0x0. B000KFUT5G [publisher: The Franklin Library] First Edition Bound in leather with hubbed spine, gilt lettering and decoration, all edges gilt, moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon marker. No ownership markings; faint shelfwear/rubbing to bottom edge; "Notes from the Editors" brochure laid-in. A beautiful copy. Apparently unread. Item Price
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Berkeley, California, USA
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Doubleday, 1976. Hardcover. Very good/Good. First printing. Inscribed to Agnes Albert, longtime supporter of the arts and music education. Covers shelfworn and tanned along top edge. Dust jacket worn and chipped. Item Price
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The Spectator Bird
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Hollis Center, Maine, USA
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976 Ex-Library. Good +. Hardcover. Moderate wear; typical library marks; an adequate readable copy.. Item Price
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Tomball, Texas, USA
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Limited Edition; A gorgeous leather bound edition from the Franklin Library; in Fine condition, with no visible flaws. Not remaindered, not ex-library; will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box. Item Price
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THE SPECTATOR BIRD
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Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good. 1976. First Edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches bound in black cloth and paper covered boards sunned along the upper and lower edges in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket. Winner of 1977 National Book Award. --- From the American First Editions collection… Read more about this item Item Price
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SANTA BARBARA, California, USA
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Franklin Center, Pa: The Franklin Library, 1976. Nice copy of book published priort to the trade edition, in its true first printing. Dark green leather with much gilt decoration, moire fabric endsheets. All edges gilt. Top edges of gilt a bit dulled, else fine. . First American Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine to Fine/No Jacket. 8vo -… Read more about this item Item Price
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