Crete, NE: The Best Cellar Press, 1975. First edition. Softcover. A standout association copy of this handsome chapbook, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To the Stegners, with affection, from the Berrys.” In Wendell Berry’s hand. Berry studied with Stegner, "the Dean of Western Writers," as a Wallace Stegner Fellow.....
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. A small collection of critical Willa Cather material from the the library of Wallace Stegner. Stegner and Cather traded letters and he wrote about Cather in his essay collection The Sound of Mountain Water--probably these items served as fodder for that effort. This.....
Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. From the Texas Folklore Series. An association copy, inscribed on the pastedown: " With warmest regards and gratitude to Wallace Stegner, from one fo the authors, Howard C. Key." With the Ex Libris bookplate of Page Stegner, Wallace Stegner's son who.....
NY: Knopf, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Wallace Stegner's copy, with his ownership signature in red on the flyleaf. This is Cather's final novel, described as "her most intense fictional engagement with political and personal conflict. Set in Cather’s Virginia birthplace in 1856, the novel draws on family and local history.....
NY: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1904. Later printing, 1912. An association copy: Unmarked, but from the library of Wallace Stegner. Co-written by Conrad and Ford Maddox Ford, one of three books they did together. An oceangoing romantic adventure set in the Caribbean. We don't know the extent of Stegner's sentiment.....
NY: Boni & Liverwright, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Third printing, 1923. Wallace Stegner's copy with his ownership signature on the flyleaf. Dreiser's autobiography from his childhood up until his turn from journalism to fiction. Stegner wrote an introduction to Dreiser for the American Literary Masters series. A good only book.....
NY: Boni & Liverwright, 1911. First thus. Hardcover. Wallace Stegner's copy with his ownership signature on the flyleaf. The second issue in the year of its original publication. Dreiser's second novel and his first commercial success, Jennie Gerhardt is described as "a powerful study of a woman tragically compromised by birth.....
First edition. An association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For the Stegner's--whose warmth and interest changed apprenticeship into adventure--Kay S. House, San Francisco, January 1966." From the library of Wallace Stegner, who wrote about James Fenimore Cooper in an essay in Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs.....
Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Houston in year of publication: With best wishes to Gabrielle Morris. Because you love California! James D Houston, Dec 15, 1982. The intrigue with this copy, however, is that its jacket is signed by Wallace Stegner at his blurb on.....
Rushville, NE: Caroline Sandoz Pifer/Mari Sanoz Corp. 1970. First edition. Softcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page by the editor: "To Dr. Wallace Stegner, in deep appreciation from Caroline Sandoz Pifer." Pifer was the younger sister of Mari Sandoz and arranged for the posthumous publication of this piece.....
Doubleday and Co, New York, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed to Steinbeck scholar and fellow Bay Area writer Maurice Dunbar on the dedication page in blue ink: "For Maury Dunbar, from Wallace Stegner, Los Altos Hills, CA Jan. 17, 1983." Stegner lived in Los Altos Hills--likely the book.....
Random House, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed genially in the year of publication on the title half-title page: "For Haydon, for the journey ahead. Wallace Stegner, April 25 1990." Near fine with one light bump to upper front spine; in a near fine price-clipped jacket with light creasing in the.....
NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on front free endpaper on Christmas Day: "For Elfie [Elsie?] and Ron Beale, with best wishes, Wallace Stegner, Dec 25, 1944." His third book, uncommon signed, as only 2500 copies were printed and 500 of those were apparently pulped when.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Stegner on the title page in black ink. Uncommon signed. One of Stegner's little-known and largely forgotten books, it's an exploration of prejudice and racism in America, with a particular emphasis on California, originally composed on assignment for Look magazine. See this.....
NY: Viking, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the front free endpaper by Stegner. Very good with sunning to both edges of cloth spine and just a hint of a lean to spine. In a very good jacket with edge wear, in particular to spine ends.
NY: Viking, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Stegner. His exploration of his childhood years in Saskatchewan and those environs, close to the Montana border. A very good or better book in orange-brown cloth with a minor bump to front upper corner, minor nudging to spine.....
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An important Silicon Valley association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Artemas and Ed, in friendship. Wallace Stegner." On the rear of the foldout map, a gift inscription from these owners, passing the book on, reads: "To George + Sue Varian.....
NY: Editions of the Armed Services, Inc, 1943. First thus. Softcover. Signed by Stegner on the title page, and scarce thus. Published by by arrangement with Duell, Sloan & Pearce. His ambitious autobiographical novel, which foregrounds the itinerant, dream-chasing Bo Mason modeled after his father, here "condensed for wartime reading." Stegner.....
Dutton, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, signed on the title page by both Wallace and his son and co-author Page Stegner, with an inscription in Wallace's hand: "For Randy Bean, with the warmest wishes for a long fellowship." "Long" is underlined for emphasis. He means fellowship in two senses.....
NY: Random House, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing. A nice association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For John, with my best thanks and friendship. Wallace Stegner." The recipient is writer John Daniel, a four-time recipient of the Oregon Book Awards among other honors. Daniel started his career.....
NY: Henry Holt, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the editor Page Stegner, who is Wallace Stegner's son and writes the preface. Uncommon signed. A posthumous collection of his nonfiction published five years after his death. Includes fifteen essays that have never been published in book form before alongside eight.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "For Phil McConnell, with warmest regards. It ain't Arabia, but it's at least a frontier. Wallace Stegner, Palo Alto, Feb. 7, 1956." Phil McConnell is a character and is profiled in Stegner's lesser-known book Discovery!.....
Doubleday and Co, New York, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A terrific association copy, given the inscription on the half title: "For Alice and Proc Mellquist, Affectionately, Wallace Stegner." Proctor Mellquist was the longtime editor of Sunset Magazine, based in Menlo Park, a magazine that for decades helped define a Western.....
Dutton, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, signed by Wallace Stegner on the half-title page. Laid in is a postcard from Stegner to the book's former owner, William S. Geller, a friend who lived nearby in Redwood City. Geller and his wife, Virginia, were prominent librarians, serving as the head.....
Dutton, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the half-title page to the Stegners' immediate next door neighbors: "For Lucy and Otto, with all the best, Wallace Stegner, Los Altos Hills, May 21, 1992." Otto and Luciel (Lucy) Slater lived just over the Stegner's driveway fence, though their place.....