STEGNER, Wallace (1909-1993). The Big Rock Candy Mountain. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.

8vo. Original pictorial self-wrappers (some bubbling to the spine, slight rubbing and chipping, some minor toning).

FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY. SIGNED BY STEGNER on the front flyleaf. "Many of Stegner's readers still consider The Big Rock Candy Mountain his best book. It does have a vitality, a sense of authenticity that he would never surpass in his later work, and he deals with certain aspects of the Western experience--that no one has treated with more power and conviction" (Benson, Wallace Stegner, p.129). RARE: We trace no proof copies of this work at auction according to online records.