Angle of Repose
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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About This Item
NY: Modern Library; (2000). First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First printing of this "2000 Modern Library Edition," near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The book has very minor soiling at the foredge of the page block. The jacket has just minor rumpling at spine ends, and very slight rubbing. $23.95 price is present on jacket flap; no names or other writing in the book. A tight, square copy.
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
- Tulsa Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023080
- Title
- Angle of Repose
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Modern Library; (2000)
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Library;
Terms of Sale
Tulsa Books
Books are shipped promptly upon receipt of payment. Any item may be returned within 10 days of receipt for a full refund of the purchase price. Shipping costs are not refunded unless the item was not as described.
About the Seller
Tulsa Books
Biblio member since 2008
Tulsa, Oklahoma
About Tulsa Books
Internet only bookseller specializing in modern first editions, signed books, western americana, and general interest out of print books.
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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