Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, ...
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Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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This book is softcover. The pages are clean. The binding is tight. Fast Shipping-Safe and Secure-Ships from Utah! Book is in very good condition. Signed by author with small inscription to former owner.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. 306 p. 22 cm. The Viking Press, New York, 1962. FIRST EDITION, Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Some crackling on top edge, with a slight tear, but in mylar cover. Hardcover, Very Good with mylar cover. Pen inscription on front page: "To Fred, Happy New Year, 1962/3, with a signature and a second signature, Jeanne Thomas, Dec 89. Exert from Dust Jacket: Wallace Stegner's boyhood was spent on the border between Montana and Saskatchewan, on the remote and belated frontier of the Cypress Hills, where his family were homesteaders from 1914-1920. They represented the third and last stage in the cycle of white settlement, a cycle which in this area ran its full course from fur hunters to dust bowl in less than fifty years. buffalo and Indian country until the 1880s, the Cypress Hills had witnessed the brief and violent intrusions of the whisky traders, the coming of the Mounties bringing law and order, the elimination of the Indians and metis along with the buffalo on which they depended, and the spread of Texas cattle across the opened shortgrass range Now, with the building of the Canadian Pacific's branch line, the town of Whitemud had been born, and the land was being enclosed by fences and broken by sodbuster plows as wheat farmers were tempted out into the dry plains...
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book 1962 Viking Press First/First in VG+/G condition. The HB is very clean & unmarked throughout. The unclipped DJ is vivid but has wear & chips along the edges, corners & spine ends. There are a few tiny holes on the spine. Now repaired & in mylar.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. 306 p. 22 cm. A Fine copy in orange-brown cloth; in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket protected in a mylar sleeve, the jacket has mild edgewear on the top fold and spine and three minor stains on the spine; inked gift inscription on the second page and owner address label on front map board; map on endpapers have provinces mislabeled, suggesting a true first edition, first printing; pp.260-261 bottom pages, an ink smear, which appears to be a printer error, otherwise a clean handsome
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