Recapitulation

Stegner, Wallace

Published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1979

About this Item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. First Edition, and limited. Includes separate eight-fold "Notes From the Editors". Book and the separate pamphlet are illustrated by Walter Rane. See scans. As New; pristine. Never read nor handled, except to scan. Octavo, 335 pp. (334 numbered). Franklin's lavish leather binding of the true first edition of Wallace Stegner's "Recapitulation", the second of his semi-autobiographical novels, offered here forty years later as the protagonist's return to.The Big Rock Candy Mountain. Full rich russet-red leather, elaborately tooled in decorative gilt on covers and spine, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, russet silk moire endpapers with matching satin page-marker ribbon. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. Immaculately preserved. With the author's "A Special Message to the First Edition Society" prefacing the novel; note that this message does bear, at its end, Stegner's facsimile signature - which looks actual enough (see scan), but is reproduced; this Franklin first edition issue is not a signed edition. Yes, you can physically read these very sturdy Franklin editions, but their rather spectacular "curb appeal" makes them just fine for display, as well. This example is immaculately preserved. Please review scans. L-franklin1.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Recapitulation
• Publisher: Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Walter Rane
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
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  • Classics of Fiction From All Eras
  • Fine and Decorative Bindings
  • Literary & Literary Journals