Fradkin, Philip L. — Wallace Stegner and the American West

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, a fine-looking, structurally sound octavo hardcover format copy, bound in two-tone, pumpkin paper over boards, black cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. A fine and accessible, loving, unflinching biography of the founder of the Stanford Creative Writing Program, where his students including Ken Kesey, Edward Abbey, Robert Stone and Wendell Berry. Plentiful black-and-white photographs spanning his life, his loves, his family, his colleagues, and his students. Augmented with Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography of Wallace Stegner's output. xiv [2], 2-369 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,