ANGLE OF REPOSE (FIRST EDITION STATED)
by Wallace Stegner
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Hudson, Florida, United States
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About This Item
DJ: is price clipped, has minor rubbing, and minor shelfwear except at the front corners, even less at the spine ends,.
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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- Bookseller
- Pulitzer Prize Books.com (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- ANGLE OF REPOSE (FIRST EDITION STATED)
- Author
- Wallace Stegner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition STATED
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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