first edition Hardcover
1956 · Boston, MA
by Stegner, Wallace
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 206pp. Octavo [21 cm] Light sea green paper covered boards and a yellow ink stamped title on the spine. The spine and boards are moderately bumped and faded at the edges, there are a couple of thin, light stains on the backstrip, and the endpapers are subtly discolored. With the pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Edward Sweet. The jacket, with periodic shallow open and closed tears along the edges and folds, is moderately toned and soiled. Colberg #A14.1.a. Wallace Stegner won the National Book Award for Fiction for The Spectator Bird. (Inventory #: 54708)