Wallace Stegner, On a Darkling Plain, First Edition, 1940, Very Good hardcover w/dust jacket
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Stegner, Wallace. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940.
English, First Edition, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 8 1/4" x 5 1/2", 230 pp.
First Edition, hardcover in green cloth. Cocking to spine, light wear, small spots of soiling to top & bottom edges of text block and pages 188-189, and minor yellowing to endpapers, otherwise, clean and tightly bound. Good pictorial dust jacket, notable wear with some tears (none larger than 1/2"), minor soiling and foxing, and tips of interior flaps clipped, now in Mylar. From inside the dust jacket: "'On a Darkling Plain' is the story of a young man grown old in war, and of his quest for peace with himself and the world." Beautifully produced novel by American novelist and environmentalist, Wallace Stegner, 1972 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner, who is known for his novel Angel of Repose.