The Spectator Bird
Wallace Stegner
ISBN 10: 0385078900 ISBN 13: 9780385078900
Published by Doubleday, 1976
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First printing. Inscribed to Agnes Albert, longtime supporter of the arts and music education. Covers shelf worn and tanned along top edge. Dust jacket worn and chipped. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 1152541
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The life of literary agent Joe Alston is interrupted by a postcard that takes him back twenty years to postwar Denmark where a search for his mother's heritage had led to the uncovering of Nazi horrors
About the Author: Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943; Joe Hill, 1950; All the Little Live Things, 1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star, 1961; Angle of Repose, 1971 (Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird, 1976 (National Book Award, 1977); Recapitulation, 1979; and Crossing to Safety, 1987. His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, 1954; Wolf Willow, 1963; The Sound of Mountain Water (essays), 1969; The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, 1974; and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three of his short stories have won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements. His Collected Stories was published in 1990.
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Title: The Spectator Bird
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The First Trade Edition with no statement as designates First Printing for this publisher after the limited edition by Franklin Library. Inscribed by the author to ffep. Winner of the National Book Award. In white boards with black spine cloth with silver type. Some tanning to tops of boards and nicks/wear to head of spine. Sharp corners, clean interior and tight binding. Jacket is unclipped ($6.95) with previous owner's name to top of front flap. Chipping and tears to spine ends and a lesser extent corners and rear flap crease. Jacket offset as folded that way at printer. 1st Printing. Inscribed by author. Seller Inventory # LPB009894WS
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The Spectator Bird
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Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1976
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First trade edition. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with small crease on rear panel, a tiny tear at the head of spine, and a crease along the front flap fold. Despite a litany of small defects an above average copy of this National Book Award winning novel. Inscribed by Stegner. From the Library of Bruce Kahn. Seller Inventory # 308278
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Book & Fine- Jacket, clipped else Fine, Signed , First Edition First Print w/ R10 code, in protective cover, National Book Award Winner. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001044
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