Angle of Repose
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/none
- Seller
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Avon, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, 1971. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/none. First edition of one of the author's most memorable titles. 569 pp. Stated first edition. A solid very good cloth-bound book. Lacking the dustwrapper. Pulitzer Prize winning title by Stegner and a classic of 1960's Western lit.
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
- Derringer Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36009
- Title
- Angle of Repose
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature / First Editions;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Derringer Books
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Avon, Connecticut
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- Dustwrapper
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- Cloth
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