Fire and Ice
first edition Hardcover
1941 · New York
by Stegner, Wallace
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 214pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth. Good/Very good. Jacket corners chipped with losses (more so at the head and foot of the spine) A few minor creases to head of jacket. Gentle rubbing to corners of boards. Signed by the author on the title page. One of the hardest to find Stegner titles. Only 2500 were printed, and less than 2000 sold. Colberg states that more than 500 sets of sheets of 'Fire and Ice' were pulped. Early Stegner work that follows the protagonist Paul Condon through his flirtations with communism. Colberg A5. (Inventory #: 52837)