Author: STEGNER, Wallace
Title: Angle of Repose
Description: Franklin Center, PA, The Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover. Illustrations by Kenneth Francis Dewey. Small 4to. Full burgundy calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 531pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations, red moire silk endpapers, sewn-in red satin page marker. Fine. Perfectly pristine and tight first of this unspecified limited edition of Stegner's controversial 1971 novel, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This unusual copy bears tipped to the front flyleaf a fine archival decorative-edged bookplate, boldly inscribed and signed in black ballpoint "For [---] / Wallace Stegner." Book is housed in the Franklin Library's thin card stock slipcase with gold foil label. .

Keywords: American Literature


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