The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Wallace Stegner

Published by The Franklin Library,, Franklin Center:, 1978

About this Item

Fine in full light brown leather covered boards with extensive gilt decorations on the front and rear boards, four raised bands on the spine with gilt text stamping, decorations and ruled borders in the compartments. The end papers are silk, there is a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine and the edges of the text block are in gilt. Signed by the author on the fourth free end paper. Laid-in is the 24 page pamphlet titled Notes From The Editors. Stegner states in the forward to the book that it was "The first of my books to acheieve wide recognition, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, was an attempt to capture in the experiences of a single family the social and psychological consequences of the ending of the f rontier and the pinching out of the American Dream. Of all my novels, it is the most deeply rooted in history and sociology." A novel of the pursuit of the American Dream by a family at the turn-of-the-century in the Pacific Northwest. 733 pages of text with illustrations by Charles Reid. A tight clean copy with absolutely no prior ownership markings. Seller Inventory # TB26662

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Publisher: The Franklin Library,, Franklin Center:

Publication Date: 1978

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: Signed Limited Edition.