Stegner, Wallace — The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1978. Signed Limited Edition. Leather bound. Saddle brown leather with gilt decoration. Five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers with matching satin place-holder ribbon. No dust jacket, as issued. 733 pp. with illustrations by Charles Reid. Originally copyrighted in 1938, this is a special, signed, limited edition by the Franklin Library. Included is a special message from Stegner to the subscribers, written for this edition. Fine, tight, clean, unread copy but with fading to edges of silk end papers, as is common with these editions. Signed by Stegner on a front free end paper, with tissue guard.