Three Wallace Stegner First Editions

(3) of Stegner's most important and well-known books, to include:

BEYOND THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN: JOHN WESLEY POWELL AND THE SECOND OPENING OF THE WEST. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt, with map endpapers at the front, in pictorial jacket (without price as issued). 8vo; xxiii, [3], [1]-438pp. with index. Plus illustrations, map, and a folding panorama frontispiece featuring the Grand Canyon of the Colorado by William H. Holmes. A fascinating look at the career of John Wesley Powell, best known for his 1869 expedition to the Grand Canyon and serving as director of the U.S. Geological Survey. Colberg A13.1.a (Boards with wear to extremities, an occasional spot, scuff, or crease, slight separation from text block, and spine very slightly cocked; interior with light toning, small stains at edges, endpaper, and frontispiece, frontispiece intact and free of tears but with some additional folds and creases, and title page with diagonal crease; jacket with toning, a few stains, mostly light edge wear but with some losses at spine ends; very good/very good.)

WOLF WILLOW: A HISTORY, A STORY, AND A MEMORY OF THE LAST PLAINS FRONTIER. New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Orange-brown cloth-covered boards, blind stamp on upper board, with brown label and stamped in gilt on spine, map endpapers, top edge stained light turquoise, in pictorial unclipped jacket. 8vo; [12], 306, [2]pp. Colberg A16.1.a (Some rubbing to spine ends and slight separation from text block; pristine interior with occasional very mild edge wear; jacket with toning, light edge wear, and one tiny stain on the spine; very good to near fine book and jacket.)

ANGLE OF REPOSE. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1971. Stated first edition. Hardcover. Blind- and gilt-stamped light green cloth-covered boards, green endpapers, in unclipped pictorial jacket. 8vo; 569pp. Colberg A22.1.a (Spine end and one corner lightly bumped, and with slight separation from text block at head; light marks and staining at front hinge, otherwise a pristine interior; jacket with light toning, minor edge wear and scuffs, and a sticker announcing the book as the winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction on the cover; a near fine book in a very good to near fine jacket.)

8 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.; 8 5/8 x 6 in.; 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian with the ownership stamps of geology professor Dr. Mark A. Melton.

All in removable, protective mylar jackets.