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Angle of Repose
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Doubleday. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Green cloth titled in gilt. Book Club edition, no date to title page. Inscribed to ffep by Stegner. Slight rubbing to board edges, slight softening to spine panel. The DJ in mylar has a $7.95 price sticker to flap, is edgeworn, with edge creasing/tears, clear tape to top front panel edge, tiny spot dampstain to spine. Bottom front flap is clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .
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
- Seller
- curtis paul books inc.
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 24088
- Title
- Angle of Repose
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1971
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Jacket
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- 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...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
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