Angle Of Repose

by Stegner, Wallace

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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Doubleday & Company first published Angle of Repose in Garden City, New York in 1971. First editions are bound in green cloth and state “First Edition” on the copyright page. The first printing dust jacket of Angle of Repose states the original price of $7.95. Signed copies of first editions have sold for upwards of $2,500.

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Angle of Repose

Angle of Repose

by Stegner, Wallace

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1st Edition
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1971
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1971 First printing of the stated first edition, in first state dust jacket with original price of $7.95 and "A.O.R." listed directly above price and no mention of Pulitzer prize. Faint toning to page margins, else book in fine condition; upper corner rubbed and light toning to spine and upper edge of flaps,… Read more about this item
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First Edition
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1971
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NY: Doubleday. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth titled in gilt. Stated first edition, first issue with gutter code "M4" on last page, 1971 on title page. Spine flattened, cloth lightly dampstained/foxed, top block edge slightly foxed, spine gilt partially rubbed. Tight and square with PO name. The first issue… Read more about this item
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by Stegner, Wallace

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1971
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1971. First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To John with best wishes Wallace Stegner November 9, 1972." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by E.D.N. Designs. Photograph of the author… Read more about this item
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Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

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1992
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STEGNER, Wallace: Angle of Repose. New York, Penguin, 1992. Originally published in 1971. Trade Paperback, 569 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature. Condition: Very Good. Former owner's inscription found on the front endpaper. Light bumping to book corners. Mild toning to pages, but clean and not marked. This novel is "an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life… Read more about this item
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by Wallace Stegner

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1971
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Stated first edition/First Printing with the "M4" code to the last page; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. An outstanding copy of this Pulitzer winning novel, uncommon in near fine or better condition. SIGNED with no inscription to the half title page. Uncommon in this condition and flat signed. This copy is in near fine condition… Read more about this item
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1971
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 569 pages. Teal cloth in dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Dust jacket is priced clipped, the $ sign is partially visible.Jack shows some toning. Chipping to the edges of… Read more about this item
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1971
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NY: Doubleday. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Green cloth titled in gilt. Book Club edition, no date to title page. Inscribed to ffep by Stegner. Slight rubbing to board edges, slight softening to spine panel. The DJ in mylar has a $7.95 price sticker to flap, is edgeworn, with edge creasing/tears, clear tape… Read more about this item
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1971
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First Edition (stated) hardcover in dust jacket; no prior owner marks; little age tone; tight bind;clean cloth cover bright gilt titling; dj has edge wear -chips at spine ends and at corners, few edge tears.flap price present tFeambib
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Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner. Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1978. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 531pp., illustrated by Kenneth Francis Dewey. Full crimson leather with gilt titles to banded spine and gilt design front and rear; all edges gilt; moire endpapers with matching ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints; printed on archival paper.… Read more about this item
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Angle of Repose

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1971
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Hardcover
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9780385078825
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E-285: Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 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.… Read more about this item
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New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc.,, 1971. The Pulitzer Prize-winner, inscribed by the author First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author "To Florence Woods, cordially, Wallace Stegner" on the title page. The work was the winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. With dust… Read more about this item
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Angle of Repose.

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

Angle of Repose.

by Stegner, Wallace.

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First Printing of the First US Edition
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1971.
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New York:: Doubleday,, 1971.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus tight copy with previous owner inscription and embossment inside the flyleaf in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with a shallow chip to bottom edge of front panel. This is Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and tells the story of four generations in the… Read more about this item
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Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

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1971
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Book Club Edition. All pages unmarked.
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First Edition
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1971
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 569pp.; HB palegreen emboss w/gilt; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ whiote w/brwn.-pic.cover; rubbed w/wear on edges; sml.chips&tears; some sun; corner-cut w/'a literary guild selection', ft.flap. "...it reveals how even the most rebellious crusades of our time follow… Read more about this item
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Garden City, Doubleday, 1971, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. His Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the West and one of his most beloved books, Colberg A22.l.a, produced during Doubleday's infamous period of poor productions, yet this is still a very nice copy. Bit of age and slight extremity wear to jacket, else nearly fine.
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Angle of Repose: Opera Program

by Stegner, Wallace

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1976
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Softcover
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S. F.: San Francisco Opera Company. Fine. 1976. Softcover. Stapled card covers. An informational pamphlet about the opera signed by Stegner at his biographical page. Fine condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .
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ANGLE OF REPOSE

by Wallace Stegner

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None as Issued
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First Edition, 10th Printing
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1992
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Soft cover
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9780140169300
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New York, NY: Penguin, 1992. First Edition, 10th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Softcover/NF; showing trace shelfwear. 1972 Pultizer Prize winning novel by Iowa-born writer, novelist & teacher Wallace Stegner (1909 - 1993). Lengthy, introspective story of a retired, wheelchair bound, historian who, having lost contact with his immediate family, withdraws to… Read more about this item
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Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

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Doubleday. hardcover. Good. 8x5x1. 1971 Doubleday hard cover - 1st edition 1st printing - not price clipped - some wear to edges of dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some staining to closed page edge - otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy
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Angle Of Repose

Angle Of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

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Published
2000
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Hardback
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9780679603382
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New York: The Modern Library, 2000. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. First Modern Library edition hardback, 2000, with unclipped jacket. In overall fine, unread condition in a very good, slightly rubbed dust jacket (now protected). Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.
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