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Stegner, Wallace. The Big Rock Candy Mountain. NY, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. His "big" book which was also the source for some of his best short stories, red brick cloth binding, one of several binding types, with a Review Slip from the publisher, Colberg A7.1.a, this copy Signed by Stegner. Produced with wartime materials, but still a very good copy with some tape reinforcements to the verso of the jacket. JD1296
James M.Dourgarian, Bookman, was established in 1980. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA). Like all ABAA members, we answer to a higher authority and follow a higher standard of ethics that guarantees a successful transaction for all our customers.
We buy and sell old books, vintage books, collectible books, rare books, first edition books, and related ephemera. We maintain several specialties. Among them are American fiction first editions from c.1900 to the present. Within that general field, we have heavy emphasis in John Steinbeck and Steinbeckiana. Thus, we buy and sell Steinbeck primary first editions in dust jackets, signed/limited editions, his appearances in anthologies, his periodical appearances, books and periodicals about Steinbeck, film and theatre memorabilia, bibliographies, and miscellaneous items.
We also specialize in these same categories for these authors -- Jack London, Wallace Stegner, and Stephen King. Other specialties include Western Americana, books on California and the West, Photography books, books on Japan, China, and the Orient, and Armed Services Editions. The latter are vintage paperbacks issued to American GIs from 1943 to 1947. They are comprised of mysteries, Westerns, science fiction and fantasy, mainstream fiction, historical novels, science, poetry, adventure stories, and more.
Within our field of modern first editions, we also sell related film memorabilia Thus, we sell film posters, lobby card sets, pressbooks, stills, scripts, etc. for films made from the works of authors we carry such as John Steinbeck, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, Zane Grey, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Stephen King, Edward Abbey, Anne Rice, and many others.
[Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Fire and Ice. NY, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is perhaps his most difficult trade title to find, especially with jacket, Stegner estimated that 2,500 copies were printed and that 1,900 of them sold, the remainder were probably pulped, Colberg A5, this copy carries a vintage inscription by Stegner ("For Elizabeth Patterson--/just an old Indian/love McCall/Wallace Stegner"). Very good.JD3438
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| [Wallace Stegner] Abell, Elizabeth (editor). American Accent. NY, Ballantine Books, 1954, first edition, first printing, wrappers. Softcover. A paperback original, No. 75, an anthology of 14 stories by writers associated with the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, includes Wallace Stegner's The Blue-Winged Teal as its lead contribution, Signed by Stegner, Colberg B32, also includes Isaac Asimov, A. B. Guthrie, Carson McCullers, Jessamyn West, and others. Near fine. JD1566 |  $45.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Barclay, Julius P. The Papers of Bernard DeVoto. San Francisco, Taylor & Taylor, 1960, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. One of 2,000 copies printed for Stanford University for an exhibition there, includes a tribute to his mentor, DeVoto, by Wallace Stegner titled Benny DeVoto's America, Colberg B56. Stray mark to rear wrapper, else fine. JD3517 | $20.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Barclay, Julius P. The Papers of Bernard DeVoto. San Francisco, Taylor & Taylor, 1960, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. One of 2,000 copies printed for Stanford University for an exhibition there, includes a tribute to his mentor, DeVoto, by Wallace Stegner titled Benny DeVoto's America, Colberg B56, this copy Signed by Wallace Stegner. Very good plus. JD3518 | $50.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Bullen, J. S. Reviews. Fort Collins, Western American Literature, Spring 1971, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Includes Bullen's review of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, 60-62. Fine. JD27158 | $10.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Colberg, Nancy. Wallace Stegner A Descriptive Bibliography. Lewiston, Confluence Press, 1990, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, introduction by James R. Hepworth, frontispiece photo portrait of Stegner by Leo Holub. Fine. JD2164 | $45.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Colberg, Nancy. Wallace Stegner A Descriptive Bibliography. Lewiston, Confluence Press, 1990, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, introduction by James R. Hepworth, frontispiece photo portrait of Stegner by Leo Holub, this is the definitive Stegner bibliography, one of 1,000 copies, this copy is signed by both Stegner and Colberg at the publication party for this book Nov. 18, 1990 which was held at Stegner's Los Altos, CA home, laid in is a cocktail napkin from that cocktail/publication party which is imprinted in gilt "Wallace Stegner/A Descriptive Bibliography". Minor top edge foxing, else fine, unread. JD35637 | $85.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Dourgarian, James M. Wallace Earle Stegner 1909-1993. Walnut Creek, James M. Dourgarian, Bookman, 1994, first edition, self-wrappers. Softcover. Cover photo of Stegner by Leo Holub, this bookseller's Cat. 52, devoted exclusively to Stegner, it lists 234 items by and about Stegner, it also includes an introduction by Dourgarian as well as an essay by him about Stegner, it also includes essays about Stegner by his student and fellow author, Wendell Berry, as well as one by his fellow author and daughter-in-law Lynn Stegner, also includes an essay about collecting Stegner by Richard Kurtz, from a total print-run of 400 copies, this is one of 26 lettered copies, this being Copy No. Y. Fine. JD30652 | $35.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Hunter, Mark. In the Company of Wallace Stegner. San Francisco, San Francisco Magazine, July 1981, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 38-43, illustrated with a photo of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author sitting at his typewriter, Colberg Appendix 1, item No. 32, this copy inscribed by Stegner to bookseller Diane Peterson (For Diane, my bibliographical [illegible--maybe connoisseur]/Wallace Stegner), the magazine's cover is a large photo of Stegner by Marek Majewski. Very good. JD36825 | $65.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] James M. Dourgarian. Wallace Stegner. Walnut Creek, James M. Dourgarian, c.1990, first edition. An 8X10-inch color glossy photograph of Stegner sitting in a chair in his California home, he looks directly into the camera, the author won both the Pulitzer Prize (Angle of Repose) and the National Book Award (The Spectator Bird), signed on the verso by the photographer. As new. JD30664 | $35.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Lewis, Merrill and Lorene. Wallace Stegner. Boise, Boise State College, 1972, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 4 in the Western Writers Series, one of 500 copies, Colberg Appendix No. 38, this copy Signed by Stegner. Very fine. JD1470 | $45.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Lillard, Richard G. A Fresh Perspective on the Old West. Georgetown, "Out West", Oct. 1972, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A review of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, 59-63, not recorded by Colberg, this was the last issue of this publication. Fine. JD1509 | $10.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Lillard, Richard G. A Fresh Perspective on the Old West. Georgetown, "Out West", Oct. 1972, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A review of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, 59-63, not recorded by Colberg, this was the last issue of this California periodical. Some marks to rear cover, else fine. JD1512 | $10.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Madden, David (editor). Rediscoveries. NY, Crown, 1971, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. There was both a hardcover and a wrappered version, includes essays in which well-known novelists "rediscover" neglected fiction by other authors, includes Robert Penn Warren, Evan Connell, Joyce Carol Oates, Anais Nin, Walker Percy as well as Wallace Stegner whose essay "rediscovers" Glenway Wescott's Good-Bye Wisconsin, Colberg B106, this copy Signed by Stegner. Fine. JD3468 | $55.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Moseley, Hardwick (editor). The Romance of North America. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1958, book club edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated with maps and photos, Wallace Stegner contributes The Rocky Mountain West, see Colberg B47, this copy Signed by Wallace Stegner, it also includes Bernard DeVoto, Jack Schaefer, and others. Very good. JD3506 | $25.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Schaefer, Jack (editor). Out West. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1955, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. An anthology that includes The Colt by Wallace Stegner, Colberg B35, this copy Signed by Wallace Stegner, it also includes Mary Austin, Jack London, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Bret Harte, Mari Sandoz, Owen Wister, and many others. Very good plus. JD3510 | $150.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace and Etulain, Richard W. Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1983, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes a foreword by Norman Cousins, illustrated with photos by Leo Holub, also includes an afterword by Etulain, one of 2,000 copies, Colberg A30.1, this copy Signed by Stegner . Fine. JD3485 | $250.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace and Etulain, Richard W. Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1983, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes a foreword by Norman Cousins, illustrated with photos by Leo Holub, also includes an afterword by Etulain, one of 2,000 copies, Colberg A30.1, this copy Inscribed by Stegner. Top and fore edges foxed, else fine. JD28894 | $200.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Stegner, Wallace and Mary (editors). Great American Short Stories. NY, Dell, 1959, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. Both editors provide the introduction, fourth printing overall, but the first 15-cent "special student edition," includes John Steinbeck's The Snake, pages 410-422, this issue not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, and others, this copy Signed by both editors, this was Graham Wilson's copy, he was chairman emeritus of the English Department at San Francisco State University, with his ownership sticker and pencil and ink notes throughout. Good. JD29617 | $50.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace and Mary (editors). Great American Short Stories. NY, Dell, August 1957, first edition, first printing, wrappers. Softcover. A paperback original, No. LC 103, it includes an introduction by both Stegners, contributors include John Steinbeck (The Snake, 410-422, Goldstone & Payne B103), Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, James Thurber, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Edgar Allen Poe, and many others, although recorded by Colberg as B44, it probably should have been classified as a Stegner "A" item. Very good. JD5291 | $35.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace and Scowcroft, Richard (editors). Stanford Short Stories 1951. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1951, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes Clay Putman and others, Colberg B13, one of 1,000 copies. Fine in a very good plus jacket. JD3497 | $45.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace and Scowcroft, Richard (editors). Stanford Short Stories 1964. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1964, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes Robert Stone's first book appearance, Geraldine, as well as Walk Don't Run, both "excerpted from a novel which will be published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in the Fall of 1965," Colberg B13, one of 1,000 copies, although not called for, this copy is Signed by Wallace Stegner. Ink name, else fine in a very good jacket. JD27164 | $150.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace, et al. Four Portraits and One Subject: Bernard De Voto. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1963, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. DeVoto is portrayed as historian by Catherine Drinker Bowen, as writer by Edith R. Mirrielees, as citizen by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and as personality by Stegner, it also includes a bibliography of DeVoto's writings, Colberg B71 (although it should have been recorded as an "A" item). Very good in a jacket with extremity wear. JD35709 | $12.50 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. 20-20 Vision: In Celebration of the Peninsula Hills. Palo Alto, Green Foothills Foundation, 1982, first and only edition, printed and illustrated self-wrappers. Softcover. Main text by Stegner, also includes some text by members of the Committee for Green Foothills, edited by Phyllis Filiberti Butler, one of 1,500 copies printed as a fund-raiser, Colberg A29, this copy Inscribed by Butler, the editor, in the year of publication. Very good plus. JD35369 | $95.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. 20-20 Vision: In Celebration of the Peninsula Hills. Palo Alto, Green Foothills Foundation, 1982, first and only edition, printed and illustrated self-wrappers. Softcover. Main text by Stegner, also includes some text by members of the Committee for Green Foothills, edited by Phyllis Filiberti Butler, one of 1,500 copies printed as a fund-raiser, Colberg A29, this copy Signed by Wallace Stegner. Fine. JD36823 | $200.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Stegner, Wallace. Afterword to John Steinbeck's Flight By Wallace Stegner. n.p. (Covelo), n.p. (Yolla Bolly Press), n.d. (1984), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. This is the first separate printing of Stegner's afterword to the Steinbeck short story which had been produced by the Yolla Bolly Press in 1984 as a beautiful signed/limited edition illustrated by Karin Wikstrom, according to Yolla Bolly Press co-publisher, Carolyn Robertson, this separate printing was made from over-run sheets that were later bound with printed wrappers by the Yolla Bolly Press to be used as small presentations to eminent visitors and the like, it even includes the (unsigned) limitation page, this afterword also includes one of the six woodblock illustrations used in the published book, not recorded by Colberg. Fine. JD28778 | $100.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. All The Little Live Things. NY, Viking, 1967, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. A very under-rated book, Colberg A19.1.a, Signed by Stegner, winner of the gold medal from the Commonwealth Club for 1967. Near fine in a very good jacket. JD36862 | $300.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Angle of Repose. NY, "McCall's", April 1971, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Colberg D55. Near fine. JD3426 | $20.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1954, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. A biography of John Wesley Powell "and the second opening of the West," introduction by Bernard De Voto, the book is also dedicated to him, with the fold-out panorama of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado looking east, south, and west from Point Sublime by William H. Holmes, it also includes the illustrations of the canyon country from the artists' point of view as well as from the camera's view, map endpapers in front, one of 6,000 copies, Colberg A13.1.a, considered one of his best books. Fine in a very good jacket, fold-out map in beautiful condition, scarce thus. JD35707 | $375.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1954, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. A biography of John Wesley Powell "and the second opening of the West," introduction by Bernard De Voto, the book is also dedicated to him, with the fold-out panorama of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado looking east, south, and west from Point Sublime by William H. Holmes, it also includes the illustrations of the canyon country from the artists' point of view as well as from the camera's view, map endpapers in front, one of 6,000 copies, Colberg A13.1.a, considered one of his best books. Very good in a jacket a bit darkened along the spine panel. JD36946 | $250.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Clarence Edward Dutton An Appraisal. Salt Lake City, University of Utah, n.d. (1935), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Author's First Book, a legendary rarity, the text is followed by a bibliography of Dutton's writing, the text is a condensation of Stegner's thesis at the State University of Iowa in 1935 (that titled Clarence Edward Dutton, Geologist and Man of Letters), Colberg A1, Colberg indicates two copies found - one belonging to Stegner and one at the Library of Congress, Stegner himself indicated to this bookseller that he owned three copies, one of which went to a noted Stegner collector, one of which his widow, Mary, retained for the family, and one that she gave to a Bay Area bookseller well-associated with the Stegners, Sylvia Asendorf, to whom Mrs. Stegner Inscribed this copy ("Sylvia, thank you for all/your help./Fondly/Mary Stegner"). Minor age to wrappers and two small paper scrapes to rear wrapper, else fine. JD2970 | $15,000.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner. NY, Random House, 1990, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. With a foreword by Stegner, a master of the short story, a wonderful anthology that includes Two Rivers, The Blue-Winged Teal, The Colt, The Women on the Wall, Genesis, Field Guide to the Western Birds, Carrion Spring, etc. Very good. JD35389 | $20.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Conductivity in Fiction. Charlottesville, "The Virginia Quarterly Review", Summer 1939, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This appearance by Stegner not recorded by Colberg, the issue also includes A Western Journey by Thomas Wolfe as well as a brief review of The Grapes of Wrath. Bright very good plus. JD3421 | $45.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Crossing to Safety. NY, Random House, 1987, first trade edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is perhaps the finest novel ever written about friendship, published when Stegner was 78 years old, Colberg A33.2.a. Fine. JD35680 | $85.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Crossing to Safety. Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1987, first edition. Issued without jacket, full leather, de luxe binding, marbled endpapers, AEG, ribbon marker, precedes the Random House trade edition, this true first edition Signed by Stegner who also offers a special message to subscribers, Colberg A33.1, this is perhaps the finest novel ever written about friendship, includes a notice from the publisher about the book. Absolutely fine. JD36947 | $85.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Discovery!. Beirut, An Export Book, 1971, third printing, wrappers. Softcover. Privately printed for Aramco (Arabian American Oil Company), none of which were for sale, the book first apeared serially in Aramco World Magazine, although this states first printing, it obviously dates to 1972 as the red front cover notes that Stegner won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Angle of Repose, the text as is the same as the true first edition, Colberg A21.1.c. Very good plus. JD3382 | $35.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Fiction: A Lens on Life. n.p. (NY), Viking, n.d. (1960), first edition, self-wrappers. Softcover. First separate printing of this piece which was originally published by "The Saturday Review" on April 22, 1950, this was issued by Viking as a promotional item in anticipation of its publication of Stegner's A Shooting Star, a note in Colberg C67 identifies this book, but it doesn't record it as the "A" item it is. Fine. JD1839 | $100.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Life Class. NY, "Nugget", July 1956, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A short story, Colberg D46, this "girlie" magazine also includes Herb Gold, Nelson Algren, Louis Nizer, and others. Very good. JD33386 | $25.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. My Pet Achilles, The Amusing Tortoise. Pleasantville, "Reader's Digest", June 1943, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Condensed from "The Atlantic," Colberg D-25. Fine. JD1302 | $10.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. New Short Novels, 2. NY, Ballantine Books, 1956, first edition thus, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This scarce and very collectible Ballantine hardcover was published simultaneously with the paperback, it includes four short novels, the first of which to be selected for inclusion in this book was Stegner's Field Guide to the Western Birds, it also includes Norman Mailer's The Man Who Studied Yoga, Colberg B40 identifies this title, but that undoubtedly was the paperback and not this very scarce Ballantine hardcover (an extremely collectible series in its own right), this copy bound in slate blue cloth with black lettering on the spine, one of four known bindings, there is no priority established (the others are pale blue, aqua green, and red, all with black lettering). Very good . JD27471 | $450.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. On the Writing of History. Helena, Western History Association, October 1965, first edition, printed wrappers. Softcover. Reprinted as a keepsake from the Fall 1965 issue of "The American West," Colberg E5. A bit of soiling and use. JD3409 | $100.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. On The Writing of History. n.p., n.p. (George Pfeiffer III), n.d. (Feb. 1989), first edition, over-sized stiff wrappers. Softcover. With the original printed envelope, one of only 100 copies Signed by Stegner, this is the first separate printing of Stegner's first article in "American West" when he became editor-in-chief in 1965, Pfeiffer was the publisher of "American West," he produced this book both to celebrate Stegner's 80th birthday and as a fund-raiser for the Duveneck Family History Room in Los Altos, the book became out-of-print immediately, not recorded by Colberg. Fine. JD36820 | $200.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. One Way To Spell Man. Garden City, Doubleday, 1982, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy, an uncorrected proof, truly uncorrected (unlike proofs of today), these "essays with a Western bias" differ bibliographically from the published version, this proof is not recorded by the Colberg bibliography. Discoloration to front cover where publisher's information sheet was once affixed, title/author/publisher written in ink on spine, else very good. JD5931 | $65.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Our Saddest War. Chicago, "Coronet", April 1961, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Stegner writes about the Civil War, Colberg C113, illustrated with 20 pages of rare photos. Covers moderately worn, else very good. JD3412 | $15.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Recapitulation. Garden City, Doubleday, 1979, first trade edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Colberg A26.2.a. Some age and wear, else near fine. JD1315 | $35.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Recapitulation. Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1979, first edition. Issued without jacket, full leather, de luxe binding, AEG, moire endpapers, ribbon marker, this unsigned limited edition precedes the Doubleday trade edition, it includes a special message from Stegner to subscribers as well as the separately-printed "Notes from the Editors" about Stegner and this book, Colberg A26.1.a, although not called for, this copy has been Signed by Stegner, very scarce thus. Fine. JD3482 | $225.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Recapitulation. Garden City, Doubleday, 1979, first trade edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Colberg A26.2.a, Signed by Stegner. Fine. JD3483 | $250.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Remembering Laughter. NY, Dell, n.d. (December 1951), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. Author's First Novel, No. 17 of the 36 Dell 10-cent titles, cover art by Isabel Dawson, Colberg A2.3. Very good. JD33385 | $20.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Remembering Laughter. Boston, Little, Brown, 1937, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Novel and first regularly published book, the prize winner from 1,340 manuscripts submitted from all over the world for Little, Brown's novelette writing contest, winning Stegner $2,500, Colberg A2.1. Some of the inevitable fading to the turquoise cloth even with the jacket on, jacket price-clipped (there was no book club edition), very good in a very good-minus dust jacket. JD33642 | $85.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. The Big Rock Candy Mountain. NY, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. His "big" book which was also the source for some of his best short stories, red brick cloth binding, one of several binding types, with a Review Slip from the publisher, Colberg A7.1.a, this copy Signed by Stegner. Produced with wartime materials, but still a very good copy with some tape reinforcements to the verso of the jacket. JD1296 | $2,500.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. The Big Rock Candy Mountain. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. N-32 in this important series, condensed for wartime reading, Stegner cut his own "big book" for this series about 15 per cent with the remainder of the cutting done by Louis Untermeyer and Philip Van Doren Stern who were editors of the Armed Services Editions series, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, Colberg A7.2. Solid very good, a bright, clean copy. JD34743 | $75.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. The Potter's House. Muscatine, The Prairie Press, 1938, first edition. One of just 490 hardcover copies of Stegner's elusive third book, color first letters of each chapter and with the running heads at the side of pages, with red page numbers, this is a great private press production, the book was dedicated to Philip and Margaret Gray, the friends of Stegner who were the models for the characters in his acclaimed novel, Crossing to Safety, Colberg A3. Clean and bright, at least very nearly fine. JD32406 | $1,500.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. The Potter's House. Muscatine, The Prairie Press, 1938, first edition. One of just 490 hardcover copies of Stegner's elusive third book, color first letters of each chapter and with the running heads at the side of pages, with red page numbers, this is a great private press production, the book was dedicated to Philip and Margaret Gray, the friends of Stegner who were the models for the characters in his acclaimed novel, Crossing to Safety, Colberg A3, this copy Signed by Stegner, very scarce, especially so when signed and in this condition, this is the Jackie Koenig copy. Fine. JD33648 | $3,500.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. The Preacher and the Slave. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1950, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Jacket illustration by William Barss, a novel based on the outlaw life of Joe Hill (Joe Hillstrom), the militant leader of the "Wobblies" (the IWW), one of 6,000 copies, Colberg A11.1.a, this is a Review Copy with review slip. Nearly fine in a very good jacket. JD35671 | $450.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. The Spectator Bird. Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1976, first edition. Issued without jacket, full leather, AEG, moire endpapers, ribbon marker, illustrated by John Collier, winner of the National Book Award, this unsigned limited edition precedes the Doubleday trade edition by one week, it includes Stegner's "special message" to subscribers as well as the separately-printed "Notes from the Editors" about Stegner and the book, Colberg A25.1.a, although not called for, this copy Signed by Stegner, Stegner has also signed the Notes from the editors laid loosely into the book. Fine. JD36969 | $300.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. The Trail of the Hawkeye. NY, "Saturday Review", July 30, 1938, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This is the cover story (on Iowa writers), Colberg C6, this copy Signed by Stegner. Library stamp to front, else very good. JD3465 | $65.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Utah. "Holiday", Sept. 1948, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This is the lead article, Colberg C57. Light wear, else excellent. JD3433 | $45.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Stegner, Wallace. Wallace Stegner. NY, "At Random", Fall 1993, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A magazine published by Random House about books, writers, and writing, it includes A National Treasure: Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) with photo and text, page 11, as well as Word Place with photo and text, page 80. Fine. JD3420 | $15.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] (Stegner, Wallace). Wallace Stegner photograph. . An 8X10-inch color glossy photograph of Stegner sitting in a chair in his California home, he looks directly into the camera, the author won both the Pulitzer Prize (Angle of Repose) and the National Book Award (The Spectator Bird), signed on the verso by the photographer. As new. JD2060 | $35.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] (Stegner, Wallace). Wallace Stegner special issue. "Montana the Magazine of Western History", Autumn 1993, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This issue includes eight essays on Wallace Stegner, essays are by his son, Page, his biographer, Jackson Benson, his co-author, Richard Etulain, his fellow authors, Ivan Doig and William Kittredge, etc. Fine. JD3431 | $10.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] West, Ray B. (editor). The Rocky Mountain Reader. NY, Dutton, 1946, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. An anthology that includes Wallace Stegner who offers Arcadian Village, an excerpt from his Mormon Country, Colberg B12, it also includes Bernard DeVoto, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Vardis Fisher, and others. Near fine in a very good jacket. JD3513 | $65.00 |
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