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ANGLE OF REPOSE (FIRST EDITION STATED)
by Wallace Stegner
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Hudson, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Green cloth with gold lettering, First Edition stated on the copyright page, 1971 on the main title page and some even put M4 gutter code(not needed). Minor bruising to the spine ends, not bumped. A a small erasure mark on the 1st leaf probably someone put a price in ink there at one time. No other marks, no wear I can see. book is unread tightness and very square. please see lots of photos with listing at Biblio.com.
DJ: is price clipped, has minor rubbing, and minor shelfwear except at the front corners, even less at the spine ends,.
DJ: is price clipped, has minor rubbing, and minor shelfwear except at the front corners, even less at the spine ends,.
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
- Pulitzer Prize Books.com
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- aorws1stVG+
- Title
- ANGLE OF REPOSE (FIRST EDITION STATED)
- Author
- Wallace Stegner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition STATED
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2005
Hudson, Florida
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I am a private collector, mainly Pulitzer Prize winners, but I inherited 1000's of hardcovers and looking to sell them off. I will be relocating in the near future, and need to lighten the load.
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- Rubbing
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- First Edition
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