John Williams – STONER – First Edition 1965
£2,250.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Stoner’ published by Viking in 1965. A very good book in like wrapper. A little dustiness to the top edge. Some bumping to the corners and some spotting to the endpapers. The dust wrapper, the first state, with $4.95 to the front flap, is a little sunned to the spine with a repaired tear and a little chipping to the spine tips and corners.
A quiet, profoundly moving novel about William Stoner, a poor Missouri farm boy who becomes an English professor at the University of Missouri. His life appears unremarkable—marked by an unhappy marriage, academic conflicts, and personal disappointments—but through its spare, elegant prose, the novel reveals the dignity and beauty in ordinary existence. Stoner explores themes of love, failure, integrity, and the passage of time. Initially overlooked, it was rediscovered decades later and is now celebrated as a modern classic of understated emotional power and human truth.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Stoner’ published by Viking in 1965. A very good book in like wrapper. A little dustiness to the top edge. Some bumping to the corners and some spotting to the endpapers. The dust wrapper, the first state, with $4.95 to the front flap, is a little sunned to the spine with a repaired tear and a little chipping to the spine tips and corners.
A quiet, profoundly moving novel about William Stoner, a poor Missouri farm boy who becomes an English professor at the University of Missouri. His life appears unremarkable—marked by an unhappy marriage, academic conflicts, and personal disappointments—but through its spare, elegant prose, the novel reveals the dignity and beauty in ordinary existence. Stoner explores themes of love, failure, integrity, and the passage of time. Initially overlooked, it was rediscovered decades later and is now celebrated as a modern classic of understated emotional power and human truth.
