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Angle Of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679603387
- ISBN 13
- 9780679603382
- Seller
-
Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Modern Library, 2000. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. First Modern Library edition hardback, 2000, with unclipped jacket. In overall fine, unread condition in a very good, slightly rubbed dust jacket (now protected). Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Hall of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 231531
- Title
- Angle Of Repose
- Author
- Wallace Stegner
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679603387
- ISBN 13
- 9780679603382
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / General;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hall of Books
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Oswestry, Shropshire
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
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