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Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard Devoto
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0385078846
- ISBN 13
- 9780385078849
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very good. SIGNED. 464pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 rust colored cloth with orange cloth covered boards. Publisher's red spray to foot of text block. Illustrated. Index. Bibliography. With very minor warping to the front board. In a dust jacket, with light soiling and spotting to the panels, and moderate rubbing and creasing to the edges. Inscribed by Wallace Stegner on the half title page: "To ____, who is beginning / to be a habit. With best wishes. / Wallace Stegner." Stegner's biography of the award winning, novelist, historian, essayist and champion of the West. Colberg #A24.1.a.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64740
- Title
- Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard Devoto
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385078846
- ISBN 13
- 9780385078849
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- STEGNER; SIGNED; DE VOTO; first edition; hardcover; biography; collectible
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- Inscribed
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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