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THE CITY OF THE LIVING AND OTHER STORIES
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VERY GOOD PLUS IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. STATED FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Octavo. First printing October 1956 stated on copyright page, indicating a first edition. Light green paper-covered boards with yellow lettering on spine. Slight bump to spine heel. Very light sunning to extremities. Deckle edge. Binding is solid, edges clean and bright. Dustjacket illustration by Edward Street shows a line-drawn urban street scene highlighted by bright red patch of color behind the title. This same theme wraps onto the spine. Dustjacket has a few 1/4" chips to top and bottom of spine and small 1/4" chips to all flap corners. Dustjacket has closed 1" tear to bottom edge of back cover. Original $3.00 price. 206 pp. A collection of seven stories by the Pulitzer Prize (Angle of Repose) and National Book (Spectator Bird) award-winning author. All stories previously appeared in popular magazines of the era. "These stories range from classic lyric mood to straight narrative with a wry, ironic moral" (from the rear flap).
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84938
- Title
- THE CITY OF THE LIVING AND OTHER STORIES
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VERY GOOD PLUS IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- STATED FIRST PRINTING
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Mass
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- short stories, 1950s, Harper's Magazine
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- Jacket
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- Heel
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- Edges
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- Octavo
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