Angle Repose, First Edition (63 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition, First Printing (No additional printings stated). Very Good with light wear to covers and no marks to text. First Editions; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, 8th Printing. BRAND NEW Copy. Softcover/NF; showing trace shelfwear. 1972 Pultizer Prize winning novel by Iowa-born writer, novelist and teacher Wallace Stegner (1909 - 1993). Lengthy, introspective story of a retired, wheelchair bound, historian who, having lost contact with his immediate family, withdraws to his grandparents' home in Grass Valley, California to research the lives of his pioneer forebearers. The novel spans four generations covering the years 1860 - 1970, inspired by, and draws upon, the letters of Mary Hallock Foote. A rich novel of an American family in American west. 569 pgs in 9 parts.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 'Seattle-based artist Gail Grinnell and her son, artist Samuel Wildman installed a voluminous textile cornucopia in the upper reaches of the Boise Art Museum's Sculpture Court. The patterns of hand-worked material that make up angle of repose reflect on the traditions, work ethics and life circumstances that impacted their family over three generations. Exhibition dates: June 28 - November 30, 2014. Essay by Sandy Harthorn.' Fine clean staple-bound paperback with little to no wear. 12 pages. Inserted is a pamphlet from the exhibition.

Condition: New. 2006. 1st Edition. paperback. Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks on a search to rediscover his grandmother, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a 100 years earlier. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 422. . . . . .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Wraps (PB) in very good condition with light wear and soiling to cover. Also former owner's named inked on top. Inside is all clean and unmarked. A collabarative effort has produced this unique opera in three acts. It premired in San Francisco in our countrys bicentennial year. 36 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Stain and fading on the boards. Text is clean. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

NY, "McCall's", April 1971, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Colberg D55. Near fine.

Cloth. Condition: Poor. First Edition. Poor/Fair. Cloth hardcover with dust jacket. First edition. With price on inside flap and first edition stated on copyright page. Ex-library wilth all the normal flaws. Heavy spine slant with cracking to spine. Dust jacket has no library markings but is heavily worn with edgewear and small tears and heavy wrinkling.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. 60 pages. Features an essay by Sarah Anne McNear and endnotes by Emily Teeter. Includes color and black and white photographs from Linda Connor, Lynn Davis, Tom Van Eynde, and Richard Misrach. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

PAPERBACK. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition thus. 341pp, octavo, tight binding, clean throughout, clean and glossy wraps, slight uplift to front cover at the side.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Clean pages, sound binding. Dust jacket intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, first printing th. [LITERATURE]. Wallace Stenger (1909-1993). "Angle of Repose (Modern Library)." New York: Modern Library, Random House. Printed in the USA, 2000. First edition, first printing thus. English language. Hardcover with light grey cloth boards set in pictorial dust jacket. Novel with introduction. 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. 25 oz. xvi, 636 pp. Vertical ripple in cloth on spine. Spine cocked. Shelf-wear. Small blue dot on inside back board. Text clean. Very Good in Very Good jacket. ISBN: 9780679603382. "An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner?a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him.".

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Warmly inscribed by Norma Kassirer on the half-title page. First Edition, First Printing (No additional printings stated). Very Good with moderate wear to covers and no marks to text. Signed Books; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. (Stated "First edition" on copyright page, M4 gutter code on last page of text.) Very Good+ in Good dust jacket with later state Pulitzer Prize sticker on front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Beautifull all leather limited edition Franklin Library edition,1978,Moire silk endpapers silk book marker,all edges gilth,Terrific gift quality book,8vo.,531 pages,Pulitzer prize winner,100% refund,O16.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition stated of the author's magnum opus. In pale green cloth blindstamped to cover and with gilt to type. Very slight cock to spine, some small splits to front hinge at endpapers and previous owner's last name to half-title page. Jacket is unclipped ($7.95) with some short tears to edges, spine ends and corners and one puncture to spine. Some tape repairs have been meticulously removed with little markings. Some edgewear, nicks and scuffing. 1st Printing.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First printing of this "2000 Modern Library Edition," near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The book has very minor soiling at the foredge of the page block. The jacket has just minor rumpling at spine ends, and very slight rubbing. $23.95 price is present on jacket flap; no names or other writing in the book. A tight, square copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. VG/NF---. Former owners bookplate on free front endpaper. Normal poor paper for these piracies. Normal browning of pages. Light edgewear. One of the many Japanese piracies that made it to the states. Scarce hardcover with dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition Green Hardcover. Book Condition: Spine ends rubbed, covers slightly faded and a few light stain marks. Dust Jacket Condition: Spine ends and top cover slightly creased, with a small amount of loss. Inside flap clipped with slight loss. Price Clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good/Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing. First Edition stated. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Book is fine, bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. Dustjacket is unclipped, $7.95 price. Dustjacket is near fine with rubbing to the front panel. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, Pulitzer Prize Winner, First Edition and Printing, Near Fine book with prev. owner's bookplate and signature to ffep, VG+ Jacket small chip to base of spine, some creasing to top of spine and rear flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Bottom corners lightly bumped. Slight darkening to the jacket spine, wear to the spine ends and a little rugging to the folds. A lovely copy of Stegner's master work that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, with a sticker on the front jacket panel proclaiming it to be so. The book was a notoriously cheap production. But this copy was well made and preserved and has none of the typical spine sag.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is near fine. DJ has wear and small tears nothing chipped or missing. Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A rare book worth having.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, NY, 1971. 569 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth with gilt titles present to the spine and the front board. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegnera deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him. Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 April 13, 1993) was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U. S. National Book Award in 1977. EB; 8.4 X 5.7 X 1.9 inches; 569 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In Like Price Clipped Jacket.First Edition Stated.Rare in This Condition.(Without Wear). Winner of Pulitzer Prize.Gorgeous Fresh Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Condition: Near Fine, an exceptionally clean, perfectly tight, unmarked copy. Dust Jacket Condition: VG, with unclipped price, small 1/4" tear top of front cover, normal page-edge browning, first state dust jacket with original price of $7.95 and "A.O.R." listed directly above price. Dust Jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. - Winner of 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed good first edition. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked*. Bookplates. Some tape marks to front and back covers. Ex-library stamp covered by bookplate. Signed by author on cover page. *Sharpie mark on dedication page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A near-pristine copy in mylar-protected dj. DJ has extremely minor edge wear; book is clean, tight, bright and square, with a previous owner's unobtrusive gift inscription on the free front end paper. As published, a substandard bit of book manufacturing, but this copy is an exception with only the typical page-edge tanning attendant to a book of this vintage.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A terrific association copy, given the inscription on the half title: "For Alice and Proc Mellquist, Affectionately, Wallace Stegner." Proctor Mellquist was the longtime editor of Sunset Magazine, based in Menlo Park, a magazine that for decades helped define a Western culture that Wallace Stegner also represented and promulgated. As another Sunset editor Bill Marken reflected, Mellquist and his predecessor Walter Doty "were there for the 1940s-1960s when Sunset vividly reflected and also powerfully shaped the distinctive lifestyle emerging during a time of unprecedented western population growth, prosperity, and creativity." Mellquist took over in 1954 and carried on as editor until (it seems) 1981 a 25 year tenure. Bill Lane, the magazine s publisher of 40 years, reflected that "[Doty] should go down in the history of one of Sunset s great editors. Some people would say he was probably the greatest editor of Sunset, although Proctor Mellquist in my opinion was as great or maybe greater." Meanwhile, Stegner admired the magazine and was a strong supporter of it. "You can t look closely at Sunset without developing a considerable respect for the intelligence that goes into that operation," he said. He went so far as to appear in a promotional video on the magazine s history. In turn, publisher Bill Lane was so influenced by Stegner s writing that he eventually endowed the Jean and Bill Lane Lecture Series and a Center for the West at Stanford, as well as Peninsula Open Space Trust s (POST s) Wallace Stegner Lecture Series (we wish we could have gotten our hands on this association copy, too). Mellquist and Stegner also sat together as advisory board members for the organization California Tomorrow, one of the first to push for smart growth, and they helped publish its newsletter, Cry California. Like a true editor, Mellquist suggested the group change the name of their project from the dry Resource Policy Institute to California Tomorrow. Stegner also weighed in editorially, writing in response to an early draft of a publication, "Let s not give the impression we expect people to go out and shove a stick of dynamite up the old Essex s exhaust." As for Alice Mellquist, apparently she regularly contributed recipes to Sunset, another token of the times. This particularly copy is a first edition hardcover in near fine condition with some minor soiling at board edges and a couple of bumps, as well as some unidentified speckling to the top of the page block; in a near fine jacket with only a little wear around the edges. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971. All in all, a book and an association that embodies both the culture of California during this era, and the challenge of its runaway growth. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Association copy, inscribed to Steinbeck scholar and fellow Bay Area writer Maurice Dunbar on the dedication page in blue ink: "For Maury Dunbar, from Wallace Stegner, Los Altos Hills, CA Jan. 17, 1983." Stegner lived in Los Altos Hills--likely the book was signed at Stegner's home. On the green front free endpaper is a 3 x 5" color snapshot portrait of Stegner in his home (with period furniture and a shelf of Easten Press leather volumes behind him), which is dated "Nov. 12 1990" in pen at its lower left; in the photo Stegner is smiling for the camera with his hands in his pockets. Dunbar's bookplate with his De Anza College address label at top is opposite on the paste down (the address of the Aladdin Bookshop in Oklahoma is written in small script on the bookplate, too--presumably where Dunbar bought the book). Dunbar was a professor of English at De Anza College in nearby Cupertino and also wrote several volumes on book collecting. First printing. This book won the Pulitzer Prize. A fine book in a near fine jacket with a touch of edge wear to outer flap folds and a very faint rectangular discoloration that wraps around uppermost spine (perhaps the shadow of some kind of label), neither of which is noticeable without close scrutiny. But the association and the snapshot makes this volume unique and highly desirable. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.