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Angle of Repose
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
San Mateo, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated first edition of Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, SIGNED by Stegner on the half title page. The supplied unclipped jacket ($7.95) has slight wear to the corners and head of the spine. Now in a mylar cover. Fading and slight soiling to the pale blue cloth boards. Bookseller's label (Vroman's) and a previous owner's gift inscription to the front endpaper. Slightest toning to the pages. 569 pages. 8.5 x 5.75
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
- B Street Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2024-Q149
- Title
- Angle of Repose
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden
- Date Published
- 1971
Terms of Sale
B Street Books, ABAA
We accept returns of any book within 30 days and refund the price, so long as the book is returned in the same condition it was sent.
About the Seller
B Street Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
San Mateo, California
About B Street Books, ABAA
We buy and sell used, rare, collectible and antiquarian books and are conveniently located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area peninsula. We are San Mateo's only used bookstore and have served the area for over 10 years.
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- Cloth
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- Half Title
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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...
- 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....
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