Author: STEGNER, Wallace
Title: The Spectator Bird
Description: Franklin Center, PA, The Franklin Library, 1976. Hardcover. Illustrations by John Collier. Small 4to. Full green calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 267pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations, green moire silk endpapers, sewn-in green satin page marker. Fine. Perfect and tight limited (unspecified) first edition of this National Book Award winner, slightly preceding the Doubleday first trade edition. This choice copy bears tipped to 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 and is accompanied by the publisher's "Notes from the Editors" leaflet. .

Keywords: American Literature


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