Books with author wallace stegner

Fine; As New. Pristine. See scans and description. Signed, limited 1978 Edition. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Signed, limited edition and First Edition thus. The scarce, original 22-page "Notes From The Editors" is included. Signed by Wallace Stegner in black ink on the third free endpaper, with tissue guard. Full-color illustrations by Charles Reid, whose soft yet realistic offerings really do reflect the tenor of the novel. Octavo, 733 pp. As New; immaculate, flawless and pristine. See scans. Franklin's lavish leather binding of the Signed, Limited Edition of Stegner's semi-autobiographical epic 1943 novel. Reid's illustrations are original for this edition, and you' wish you could hang them on your wall. Binding is rich russet leather, decorated and imprinted in gilt; spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, russet moire endpapers, and a matching satin page-marker ribbon. The gilt is 22 karat, and the paper is 55-pound High Opaque, specially milled for this volume. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; pristine and flawless, and protectively archived since arrival; page-marker has in fact never been moved. With the author's newly-contributed "A Special Message to Subscribers from Wallace Stegner" prefacing the novel. Scarce (particularly with the Notes From the Editors, laid-in) and strikingly handsome. Show this one off on the cocktail table; get a market copy to read. See images. l-frnkln3

Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune—in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Stegner portrays more than thirty years in the life of the Mason family in this masterful, harrwoing saga of people trying to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century.