Angle of Repose.
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Langley, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Doubleday,, 1971.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus tight copy with previous owner inscription and embossment inside the flyleaf in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with a shallow chip to bottom edge of front panel. This is Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and tells the story of four generations in the life of an American family (1860-1970) and their physical and emotional journey through California, the Dakotas, Idaho, Colorado, and Mexico.
Synopsis
Angle of Repose is a 1972 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Wallace Stegner about a wheelchair-using historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier-era grandparents. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972. The novel is directly based on the letters of Mary Hallock Foote, later published as A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gregor Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28436
- Title
- Angle of Repose.
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing of the First US Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1971.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- literature
Terms of Sale
Gregor Rare Books
All items are first US or UK printings unless otherwise noted. Signatures are guaranteed authentic. Items are subject to prior sale and returnable within 7 days of receipt if not as described. We accept all major credit cards and personal checks. Postage is extra. We ship Priority insured mail: $8.00 for the first item and $4.00 for each additional. International shipping will be billed at cost. Washington State residents will be charged 8.4% sales tax.