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Crossing to Safety
de Stegner, Wallace
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New York: Random House, 1987. Third printing. 277pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over orange boards with title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Signed by Stegner on the half-title. Nice copy of Stegner's celebrated novel. Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called 'The Dean of Western Writers'. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977, and through his writing program at Stanford University, influenced generations of writers (Edward Abbey, Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Larry McMurtry). Colberg A33.2.d.
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Anna Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, on March 30, 1820. Brought up in a strict Quaker family, Anna developed a strong interest in horses as a young girl. But a crippling bone disease and a fall in 1834 left her an invalid for most of her life. By her mid-thirties she was severely lame and could only get around in a pony cart, and characteristically she would never use a whip on the animal. In 1871, she was told she had eighteen months to live, and by the end of that year, she had begun her book, Black Beauty , hoping it might make people a little kinder to their faithful horses. Although she was seriously ill, she lived long enough to finish her book and see it published in 1877. On April 25, 1878, she died at her home in Old Catton near Norwich, England. Black Beauty , an enormous success from its first appearance, was soon adopted by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and used to improve the conditions of horses everywhere. Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, USA. She has worked in publishing, public relations and most recently advertising, but thinks the best job in the world would be head gardener for Regents Park. Meg lives in Highbury, North London. She is the author of Just in Case, What I Was and How I Live Now .
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- Tschanz Rare Books
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- 7743
- Título
- Crossing to Safety
- Autor
- Stegner, Wallace
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- 1
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- Third printing
- Editorial
- Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1987
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