8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in silver (some minor toning, a touch of wear to spine ends); dust jacket (slight toning, a few tiny chips and short closed tears). Provenance: Peg and Jim North (inscription from Wallace Stegner on the front flyleaf).

FIRST TRADE EDITION. INSCRIBED BY STEGNER: "For Peg and Jim North. Cordially, Wallace Stegner." The Spectator Bird won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1977.

[With:] STEGNER, Wallace. On the Teaching of Creative Writing Responses to a Series of Questions. Edward Connery Lathen, editor. Hannover, NH: Montgomery Endowment / Dartmouth College, 1988. 8vo. Original boards (slight wear to spine ends).

FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY STEGNER on the half-title. Stegner founded the creative writing program at Stanford University, and his students included Wendell Berry, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ken Kesey, and Larry McMurtry among others.