THE SPECTATOR BIRD
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good. 1976. First Edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches bound in black cloth and paper covered boards sunned along the upper and lower edges in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket. Winner of 1977 National Book Award. --- From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven (1948-2019). Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature! .
Synopsis
Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. His novel, The Spectator Bird , won the National Book Award in 1977. The main character, Joe Allston, is seventy years old, living with his wife Ruth, and finds himself growing bored and bitter. Then he receives an unexpected postcard from an old friend. This causes him to return to the journals he kept from a trip taken long ago to search for his mother’s roots in Denmark. What follows is a quest to discover more about the noble Danish family he uncovers, along with revealing secrets regarding eugenics and incest that the family uses to produce a breed of superior humans. A breathless, psychological experience most brilliantly written.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hoffman Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77107
- Title
- THE SPECTATOR BIRD
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1976
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- New
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- Sunned
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- Points of Issue
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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