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The Spectator Bird.
by STEGNER, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Garden City, New York Doubleday & Company, Inc.,, 1976. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Harry and Carol Shlaudeman, remembered and missed. Wallace Stegner, Atherton, May 2, 1976." Harry W. Shlaudeman (b. 1926) had a long and distinguished career in the Foreign Service of the US State Department, serving as ambassador to Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and Nicaragua. Octavo. Original cream boards with black cloth back, titles to spine in silver. With dust jacket. Spine ends a touch rubbed, light tanning to boards and edges. An excellent copy in a price-clipped, slightly toned jacket with a few small nicks and chips to head of spine.
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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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 97419
- Title
- The Spectator Bird.
- Author
- STEGNER, Wallace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
- Date Published
- 1976
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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