The Big Rock Candy Mountain Stegner, Wallace Literature,Signed

First edition. Signed by Wallace Stegner on the front free endpaper, inscribed to novelist Staunton Calvert at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, August 20, 1944. [iv], 515pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with light wear, additional inscription by someone else beneath authorial inscription, corner crease to front free endpaper, in a Very Good dust jacket, worn at extremities, slightly sunned spine panel (not too bad), unclipped ($3.00). An uncommon jacketed first of Stegner's breakout novel. It follows Bo Mason and his family in the search for the American Dream, signed the year after publication.