The City of the Living, and Other Stories

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First Edition. 206pp. Duodecimo [21 cm] Gray cloth with the title in yellow on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Minor nicking to the corners of the jacket. Gentle foxing to pastedowns and endsheets. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Collection of eight short stories that previously appeared in Harper's Magazine, Mademoiselle, and Woman's Day. Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called 'The Dean of Western Writers'. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977, and through his writing program at Stanford University, influenced generations of writers (Edward Abbey, Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Larry McMurtry). Colberg A14.1.a.