Angle of Repose.

STEGNER, Wallace.

$1,500.00

Item Number: 118652

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 by Alex Gotfryd. An exceptional example, uncommon signed and inscribed.

An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner—a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past. “Brilliant...Two stories, past and present, merge to produce what important fiction must: a sense of the enhancement of life" (Los Angeles Times). Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century.