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1937réf. 001092Covici fzriede 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 186pp. Tan boards titles on spine and front board. Slight spine lean previous owner's blindstamp on FFEP pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has missing chip at head of spine smaller missing chip at foot and a small closed tear at lower front jacket edge. Jacket presents nicely in mylar sleeve. No price on jacket flap Saint Katy the Virgin part of title list. . Covici fzriede Hardcover
1937réf. LPB011722JSNew York: Covici Friede 1937. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/N/A. Second state with all relevant points. Book in beige cloth with brown and black design motifs to frame title on front board and spine. Top corners dinged small spot stain to top page ends a few small marks to boards and tanning to spine and page ends. Clean interior and solid binding. In a beautiful new facsimile jacket of the first printing. Covici Friede hardcover
1937réf. 19644New York: Covici Friede 1937. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. The Book Club Edition of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Octavo 186pp 1. Publisher's original tan cloth title printed on spine and cover. The first Book Club edition with "Printed and bound by the Haddon Craftsmen" on the copyright page. With the corrected text on page 9 ending "hung loosely" and no bullet between the eights on page 88. In the publisher's pictorial dust jacket without price on the front flap loss along the heel of the spine several short closed tears. Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club before publication. ref. Goldstone & Payne Aa. Covici Friede unknown
1937réf. 16356New York: Covici-Friede. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1937. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. SECOND ISSUE with no bullet between the 8's on page 88 and with the correction made on page 9. No additional printings noted on the copyright page. Minor bumps to the corners a former owner name to the front pastedown that is hidden by the jacket flap. Slight spine lean. The dust jacket is chipped with small tears at the corners and spine ends. Wear along the spine. A 1" tear to the upper front edge near the spine another smaller tear to the upper rear edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 186 pages . Covici-Friede hardcover
1958réf. 58682NY: The Viking Press 1958. First Edition first printing. Goldstone-Payne A37a. 8vo. boards & cloth in dust jacket; 233 pages. Near fine covers nice; contents clean & tight; minor wear & few short tears $3.95 price is present on the front flap d/j. There is a very shallow chip at the top of the spine and a former owner hand-painted the background colors to match those on the dust jacket and this is tipped to the inside of the head of the spine. Not a big deal but it does make the d/j look nicer. The Viking Press unknown
1961réf. 590116Taiwan: no publisher 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Pirated edition. Small octavo. Olive cloth with spine stamped in silver ribbon marker and printed on very thin paper book is about 5/8" thick. Near fine in a very good or better dust jacket also printed on thinner stock printed in red only that has a couple of nicks and tiny tears and a slightly longer tear on the front panel. Prints a copyright date but neither spurious publicaiton information nor the Chinese-language text that is usually found. no publisher] hardcover
1954réf. 377021Salerno Italy: Ente Provinciale Per Il Turismo 1954. First edition first issue. First leaf torn out; 30pp. 8vo. Stiff yellow printed wrappers. First leaf torn out otherwise fine. First edition first issue. First leaf torn out; 30pp. 8vo. This copy specifically states "1954" on the inside front cover and would therefore precede the Italian edition published in 1955 as well as Goldstone & Payne's first English language edition. See Goldstone & Payne A34b listing publication date as 1959 for the English language issue. Ente Provinciale Per Il Turismo unknown
1947réf. 002560Praha Prague: Jaroslav Podrouzek 1947. First Edition. Very good. First edition 1 of 5000 copies; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 2; 5-225 5; plain brown wraps; pictorial DJ; light wear to tips of spine and corners; signatures loose as issued tucked into each other; hinges a bit weak; very good condition. Jacket design and typography by B. Forman; small nicks to edges; in good to very good condition. First Czech edition of Steinbeck's arguably first commercial and critical success it was released 2 years after the original edition was published in the United States. OCLC lists 3 copies at institutions; none other in the American trade as of December 2019. Jaroslav Podrouzek paperback
1952réf. 400735New York: The Viking Press 1952. Softcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in wrappers and fine dustwrapper with very slight age-toning. One of 3200 copies. A crisp copy. The Viking Press unknown
1954réf. 1577New York: Viking 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Printing First State with red top stain. Dustjacket spine is very lightly sunned and has very light rubbing to corners and bottom of spine. Top of spine has a very shallow chip. Top of book spine has light wear. Colored title page with "The Colonial Press" on the copyright page. Large picture of Steinbeck on rear of dustjacket with no blurbs. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. Viking Hardcover
1954réf. 30293New York: Viking 1954. First edition. Yellow cloth fine copy in lightly used price-clipped dust jacket. Viking unknown
1941réf. 0184New York: The Viking Press 1941. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Quarto. Life in a Mexican Village with photographs from the motion picture directed by Herbert Kline. 143pp. Bound in beige pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in green top edge green; a clean bright copy in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with light chipping to head and top right corner. In all a very good copy. The Viking Press hardcover
réf. FORT958354The Franklin Library. Used - Good. Limited edition. Fully-bound in rich salmon leather. Raised-bands and gilt lettering on spine; Gilt decoration on spine and boards. Beige silk moire endpapers matching sewn-in bookmark and all edges gilt. Illustrations by Robert Heindel throughout. The Franklin Library hardcover
réf. 003410Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Pirated Edition. No Place No date given. This is most likely a Taiwanese pirated edition. Bound in blue cloth with silver lettering. Text printed on what appears to be rice paper. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Scarce in this edition. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. Hardcover
1975réf. b2-4-2203Franklin Library/ Oxford University Press 1975-01-01. First Edition. Leather Bound. Like New. Full red leather with 22kt gold embossed decorative cover and gilt page edges. Hubbed spine. The endpapers are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Franklin Library/ Oxford University Press hardcover
1939réf. 018832New York New York: Viking Press 1939. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Collection of 16 short stories by the Pulitzer prize-winning author including three parts of "The Red Pony."' From a single collector's estate this is a FIRST EDITION Fourth Printing from Sept. 1939 in 303 pages. Hardcover book has terra cotta cloth over quarter oatmeal colored cloth-covered boards embossed rust lettering to spine. Condition is Near Fine: extremely clean pages modestly tanned heavier around edges. Front & rear endpapers/hinges are heavily tanned. Old gift inscription dated 1940 on ffep. Corners crisp; binding secure & straight. The DJ clipped at both corners of front flap but not bce is VG: bright & clean with a small pen scribble & chip at center/top edge of back cover & very minor edgewear otherwise. A lovely copy! Beautifully protected in new clear mylar cover. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Viking Press hardcover
1938réf. 1331410New York: Viking Press 1938. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Hardcover; Spine cream with brown print; Boards in protective plastic cover boards quarter bound with cream cloth to spine and brown cloth to boards mild wear to corners and spine caps slight soiling to spine cloth else clean and strong; Text block has brown-tinted top edge penciled price on bottom edge name labels and pencil notation on front flyleaf tanning to endpapers pencil notation on title page verso and contents page clean text; 303 pages. 1331410. FP New Rockville Stock. Viking Press hardcover
1942réf. 8378New York: The Viking Press 1942. 8vo blue cloth 188 pp with original dust jacket. First edition first state with "First Published March 1942" to copyright page period between "Talk" and This" on pp. 112. An attractive copy with bit of toning to pages and soiling to covers slight spine lean unclipped jacket rubbed and toned with tiny chips to corners and spine ends very good overall. The Viking Press hardcover
1945réf. 003781New York: Viking 1945. Book. Illus. by Dennis Wesley. Fine. Hardcover. First Illustrated Edition. First Illustrated edition. Illustrations in color by Wesley Dennis. Book and slipcase are in fine condition scarce for this edition. Variant edition with Rogers-Kellogg-Stillson on copyright page as printers. Book is bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering. Contains The Gift The Great Mountains The Promise The Leader of the People. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. . Viking hardcover
1948réf. 003431Cleveland: The World Publishing Company 1948. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. First Forum Books Edition. First Printing April 1948 stated on the copyright page. This is also the first photoplay edition with scenes from the movie starring Robert Mitchum Myrna Loy and Louis Calhern on the dustjacket with the $1.00 price present. Book is bound in brown cloth. Scarce in this condition. Contains all the stories originally published in "The Long Valley" 1938. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. . The World Publishing Company Hardcover
1945réf. TB33002New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Illustrated Edition. First Printing Fine in tan cloth covered boards with an illustrated paper label on the front board gilt on blue title block on the spine and end papers illustrated with running horses. The edges of the text block are stained dark blue. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 3/8 inches Issued without a dust jacket however the book is contained within a near fine paper covered slip case with its paper label in place which shows hints of rubbing at the upper and lower edges. There is a very faint dampness stain to the top edge of the slipcase and to the upper side of the rear panel. The contents of the book are fine. 131 pages of text followed by a page of other books by Steinbeck. Illustrated from color paintings by Wesley Dennis. A very handsome very collectable copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. Goldstone & Payne A9c The Viking Press hardcover
1943réf. 29209NY: The Viking Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very slight rubbing to the DJ at the spine ends and top of the front panel.; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 568 pages . 1943. The Viking Press hardcover
1947réf. 152676New York: The Viking Press 1947. First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning writer. Octavo original cloth top stain green. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some chips to the spine. Jacket design by Robert Hallock. In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads transporting the lost and the lonely the good and the greedy the stupid and the scheming the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and possibly toward the promise of the future. It was the basis for the 1957 film starring Jayne Mansfield Joan Collins Dan Dailey and Rick Jason. The Viking Press hardcover
1949réf. 003272Rome: Albatross 1949. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Albatross Printing in yellow wraps. Authorized Edition #576. Very scarce book especially in dustjacket. Yellow dustjacket printing is the same as the book covers. Publishers bookmark and postcard laid-in. Cover states: Not to be introduced into the British Empire or the U.SA. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. Albatross Paperback
1947réf. 97788New York NY: The Viking Press 1947. 1947. Very good. - Octavo 8-1/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover bound in brick red cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and spine with an image of a bus in blind on the front cover in a pictorial dust wrapper designed by Robert Hallock. The top edge is stained green. The head & tail of the dust jacket's spine are rubbed and the edges of the jacket's rear panel and innner flaps are darkened. There is also a tiny hole to the jacket's rear panel with minor dampstaining to that panel's bottom corner. 312 pages. Very good. First edition first printing with "Published by The Viking Press in February 1947" and "Printed.by The Haddon Craftsmen" on the copyright page. New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1947. hardcover