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Angle of Repose.
by STEGNER, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc.,, 1971. The Pulitzer Prize-winner, inscribed by the author First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author "To Florence Woods, cordially, Wallace Stegner" on the title page. The work was the winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Front hinge cracked but holding; an excellent copy in the slightly soiled price-clipped jacket with some nicks to extremities.
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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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96920
- Title
- Angle of Repose.
- Author
- STEGNER, Wallace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc.,
- Date Published
- 1971
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Jacket
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- First Edition
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- Inscribed
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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