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1951ref. 240624002New York: Viking 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The Log from the Sea of Cortez: The Narrative Portion of the Book "Sea of Cortez" by John Steinbeck An uncommon follow up narrative log of the journey to the Sea of Cortez and the 1941 book by Steinbeck. OVERALL CONDITION: NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE BOOK INFO Published in 1951 by Viking Press in New York. First edition first printing as indicated by "Published by The Viking Press in September 1951" statement on the copyright page with no other printings listed. In original maroon cloth covered boards with gold lettering and decoration. Publisher maroon top stain. Pictorial map of the Sea of Cortez endpapers. First state dust jacket with $4.00 price on front flap. Octavo. Well-protected in its archival mylar wrap and custom cloth clamshell case with a morocco descriptive label. CONDITION The book is in NEAR FINE vintage condition. Tight sound binding with the slightest of spine lean and a small splash of coffee on a few of the fore-edge pages else FINE. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Boards are strikingly fresh colorful and unfaded. Publisher top-stain in excellent shape. Exceptionally clean interior with bright pages and no writing stickers ex libris marks or foxing. No darkening of the endpaper gutters. A beautiful copy for an exceedingly hard to find title in high-grade collectible condition. The unclipped dust jacket is NEAR FINE - beautifully colorful and bright usually found quite darkened and toned with large chips and tears. Some very light edge wear - light creasing tiny tears and chips and a touch of dust/soiling else FINE some would say FINE. The nicest example I see for sale on the market. The included solander case is in NEAR FINE condition too. Viking hardcover
1952ref. 28259Viking 1952. 1st Edition. HCDJ. Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition 1st printing with price-clipped dust jacket. Author pictured on back flap Page 281 line 38 "bite" instead of "bight." This sprawling and often brutal novel set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Viking unknown
1937ref. 39023New York: Covici Friede 1937. Near fine. Signed limited first edition this the scarce "lettered" issue meant for private distribution to friends. In addition to being lettered instead of numbered this issue is printed on Marais handmade paper watermarked while the numbered copies are on La Garde paper. The limited edition originally sold for $10.00 - a large sum for the time but sold out. The story features young Jody Tiflin and his life on his father's northern California ranch. The first edition has no illustrations; an illustrated expanded edition came out in 1945. This lettered limited edition is quite scarce. 10'' x 7''. Original tan pictorial limp cloth. No glassine spine and rear edge faded mark at finger slot level corresponding with the finger hole cut out on slipcase for book removal owner bookplate tipped onto free endpaper purportedly belonging to a Covici Friede associate. Housed in the publisher's slip case with the limitation letter on the spine of the case. Slight marginal sunning to cloth. Edge of case faintly stained in two areas else tight. Covici Friede unknown
1962ref. 122693New York: The Viking Press 1962. First edition of Steinbeck's Nobel Lecture. Octavo original wrappres. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For the Waldmanns with pleasure John Steinbeck." Presented with original mailing envelope. In near fine condition. John Steinbeck presented his Nobel Lecture on December 10 1962 and was awarded the Prize "for his realistic and imaginative writings combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception. The Viking Press unknown
ref. 06581New York: Covici Friede 1935. Steinbeck's Breakthrough - The Rare Wrappered Issue A Likely Advance Issue One of Approximately 500 Copies STEINBECK John. Tortilla Flat. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. New York: Covici Friede 1935. First edition wrappered issue of the author's first commercially successful novel. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 191 x 133 mm. i-iv v-vi vii-viii 9-316 1 3 blank pp. Publisher's original sewn pictorial wrappers printed in blue. Spine darkened with a tiny chip at the foot and a short 1 1/2 inch split at the top of the front joint. Preserved in the likely original glassine wrapper. A very good well-preserved example of this fragile and elusive issue. Chemised in a blue cloth folder and housed in a quarter dark blue morocco slipcase spine with five raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. The rare wrappered issue of Tortilla Flat produced in a small limitation - generally estimated at approximately 500 copies - at the time of first publication. Though bibliographers Goldstone and Payne note that there is no conclusive evidence that this issue precedes the standard cloth binding it has long been regarded in the trade as an advance or trial issue likely intended for early distribution review or promotional purposes. Fragile by nature and seldom encountered in presentable condition copies retaining their original glassine are particularly scarce. This issue marks the turning point in Steinbeck's career: Tortilla Flat established both his reputation and his distinctive narrative voice paving the way for In Dubious Battle 1936 and The Grapes of Wrath 1939. A desirable and increasingly difficult Steinbeck issue especially in unrestored condition. New York: Covici Friede, 1935 unknown
1937ref. 39023New York: Covici Friede 1937. Near fine. Signed limited first edition this the scarce "lettered" issue meant for private distribution to friends. In addition to being lettered instead of numbered this issue is printed on Marais handmade paper watermarked while the numbered copies are on La Garde paper. The limited edition originally sold for $10.00 - a large sum for the time but sold out. The story features young Jody Tiflin and his life on his father's northern California ranch. The first edition has no illustrations; an illustrated expanded edition came out in 1945. This lettered limited edition is quite scarce. 10'' x 7''. Original tan pictorial limp cloth. No glassine spine and rear edge faded mark at finger slot level corresponding with the finger hole cut out on slipcase for book removal owner bookplate tipped onto free endpaper purportedly belonging to a Covici Friede associate. Housed in the publisher's slip case with the limitation letter on the spine of the case. Slight marginal sunning to cloth. Edge of case faintly stained in two areas else tight. Covici Friede unknown books
ref. 06581New York: Covici Friede 1935. Steinbeck's Breakthrough - The Rare Wrappered Issue A Likely Advance Issue One of Approximately 500 Copies STEINBECK John. Tortilla Flat. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. New York: Covici Friede 1935. First edition wrappered issue of the author's first commercially successful novel. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 191 x 133 mm. i-iv v-vi vii-viii 9-316 1 3 blank pp. Publisher's original sewn pictorial wrappers printed in blue. Spine darkened with a tiny chip at the foot and a short 1 1/2 inch split at the top of the front joint. Preserved in the likely original glassine wrapper. A very good well-preserved example of this fragile and elusive issue. Chemised in a blue cloth folder and housed in a quarter dark blue morocco slipcase spine with five raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. The rare wrappered issue of Tortilla Flat produced in a small limitation - generally estimated at approximately 500 copies - at the time of first publication. Though bibliographers Goldstone and Payne note that there is no conclusive evidence that this issue precedes the standard cloth binding it has long been regarded in the trade as an advance or trial issue likely intended for early distribution review or promotional purposes. Fragile by nature and seldom encountered in presentable condition copies retaining their original glassine are particularly scarce. This issue marks the turning point in Steinbeck's career: Tortilla Flat established both his reputation and his distinctive narrative voice paving the way for In Dubious Battle 1936 and The Grapes of Wrath 1939. A desirable and increasingly difficult Steinbeck issue especially in unrestored condition. New York: Covici Friede, 1935 unknown books
1937ref. 115598New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First edition first issue with the word "pendula" present on page 9 and the dot between the 8's on p. 88 of Steinbeck's "marvelous picture of the tragedy of loneliness" Eleanor Roosevelt. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example. John Steinbeck began Of Mice and Men as a children’s story. “Although the finished novelette does not seem appropriate for children—that intention was obviously abandoned—the simplicity of its style and the clarity and precision of its imagery may well have been prompted by this original purpose… ” Benson 326. The result is “a sophisticated and artful rendering of the basic conflict between two worlds: between an idealized landscape and the real world with its pain and anguish” Literary History of the American West. "A thriller a gripping tale . . . that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick" The New York Times. Covici-Friede hardcover
1942ref. 33912New York: Viking Press 1942. 1st Edition. Frank Lieberman. Frank Lieberman. 1st Edition. Signed By Steinbeck. Sm. 8vo. 188pp. blue cloth with silver titles. True First Edition inscribed by the author with a blue fountain pen on the front fly leaf: "For Mrs. LewisThanks you very much for your warm letter Sincerely John Steinbeck Los Gatos". A very good copy in the original blue cloth boards with silver stamping with some aging of the first issue showing light use with all relevant issue points present; large period on p.112 line 11; absence of printer's name on copyright page. No marks on the pages. The Frank Lieberman illustrated dustwrapper is early issue with all corners clipped very good condition showing some staining on the back cover and general light use and aging. Preserved in mylar cover. The Dust Jacket Back features that specific wartime "Men in the Services Need Books" advertisement/campaign text which was placed by the publisher Viking Press in March 1942-just a few months after the United States entered World War II. It was published in the first and second state dust jackets. Steinbeck's unique novel on the abject brutality of German occupation and courage under much duress. Goldstone & Payne A16. "For the first time since he wrote his first novel twelve years ago Steinbeck has gone outside of America for his setting. Yet this book more than any other he has written is of our times and of our hearts today. Its people are men and women like ourselves and its hero Mayor Orden will stand with George and Lennie Tom Joad and Jody Tiflin among the immortal characters of fiction."- Publisher. Viking Press unknown
1941ref. 1264651941. New York: Viking Press 1941. 8vo 598 pp. Illustrated. Original green cloth lettered in silver map endpapers unclipped dustjacket priced $5.00. Boards marked and scuffed dust jacket worn and a little faded with moderate edgewear but no major chips endpapers toned scattered foxing. Custom cloth slipcase somewhat spotted. A good plus copy with bookplate inscribed by Ed Ricketts on front pastedown. Bookplate lightly abraided but legible. § First edition with the book plate of Jewel and Patricia Stevens which has been inscribed by Ed Ricketts: "For the Stevens May 1 - 1945. I am delighted to sign this over to you good friends I have known perhaps longer than anyone except John. I think Sea of Cortez is a good book and I am glad you like it. Ed Ricketts". According to Katherine Rodger who edited the letters of Ricketts Jewel and Pat Stevens were friends of Ricketts's sister and lived near Chicago. unknown
1941ref. 1264651941. New York: Viking Press 1941. 8vo 598 pp. Illustrated. Original green cloth lettered in silver map endpapers unclipped dustjacket priced $5.00. Boards marked and scuffed dust jacket worn and a little faded with moderate edgewear but no major chips endpapers toned scattered foxing. Custom cloth slipcase somewhat spotted. A good plus copy with bookplate inscribed by Ed Ricketts on front pastedown. Bookplate lightly abraided but legible. § First edition with the book plate of Jewel and Patricia Stevens which has been inscribed by Ed Ricketts: "For the Stevens May 1 - 1945. I am delighted to sign this over to you good friends I have known perhaps longer than anyone except John. I think Sea of Cortez is a good book and I am glad you like it. Ed Ricketts". According to Katherine Rodger who edited the letters of Ricketts Jewel and Pat Stevens were friends of Ricketts's sister and lived near Chicago. unknown books
1939ref. 022103Los Angeles: The Albertson Press in association with Bunster Creely 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Tipped-in illustration loose but present with resulting adhesive stains to leaf minor rubbing and wear to head and tail of spine. Near Fine. Publisher's red paper-covered boards gilt label printed in black to upper cover 5-3/4" x 8-14"; viii 9 pages with tipped in frontispiece. The first published book about Steinbeck written by a childhood friend. Copy #18 of 1000 copies SIGNED by the author. Additionally SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the subject: This is a god damned lie/John Steinbeck. Bennett's chapbook released after the phenomenal success of THE GRAPES OF WRATH tells the story of meeting a young John Steinbeck years earlier having a brief discussion about the nature of socialism in a capitalist society and attending a church service in which Steinbeck heckled the preacher foreshadowing the contempt for that profession dramatized in his epic novel. From the Mary Dekker Steinbeck Family collection. The Albertson Press in association with Bunster Creely hardcover
1941ref. 240624001New York: Viking 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts An uncommon travelogue by Steinbeck and exceedingly scarce to find in such beautiful condition. OVERALL CONDITION: FINE/NEAR FINE BOOK INFO Published in 1941 by Viking Press in New York. First edition first printing as indicated by "First Published in December 1941" statement on the copyright page with no other printings listed. In original teal cloth covered boards with pictorial map of the Sea of Cortez endpapers. First state dust jacket with $5.00 price on front flap. Well-protected in archival mylar wrap. Illustrated with color and black and white photos of sea creatures from the Sea of Cortez. Large octavo. CONDITION The book is in FINE vintage condition. Tight sound binding. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Boards are strikingly fresh colorful and unfaded. Just a few spots on the cloth. Publisher top-stain in excellent shape usually quite faded. Exceptionally clean interior with bright pages and no writing stickers ex libris marks or foxing. Not even the usual darkening to the endpaper gutters. A gorgeous copy! The unclipped dust jacket is NEAR FINE - beautifully colorful and bright usually found quite darkened and toned with large chips and tears. Some light edge wear - light creasing tiny tears and chips. Viking hardcover
1952ref. 336561New York: Viking Press 1952. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Very small open tears on panel corners and spine crown and heel. Small closed tears on front and rear panel top edges. First state book and jacket with the word "bite" present on page 281 line 38 with the photo of Steinbeck on rear panel with no photo credit mentioned. 4.50 price intact on the front flap. Viking Press hardcover
1952ref. 336751New York: Viking Press 1952. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner nameplate on front pastedown. Open tearing on spine crown and heel top rear panel and panel top corners. First state book and jacket with the word "bite" present on page 281 line 38 with the photo of Steinbeck on rear panel with no photo credit mentioned. 4.50 price intact on the front flap. Viking Press hardcover
1937ref. 798SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR: "SINCERELY JOHN STEINBECK" ON THE TITLE PAGE COVICI-FRIEDE PUBLISHERS First Book-Club Edition with unpriced DJ and 'Haddon Craftsmen' listed as printers on the copyright page. Pages are in near-fine condition. Book is tight straight and interior is clean. No scuffing on edges; corners and spine ends are not bumped or scuffed. Fully bound beige cloth with orange and black details and letters front and spine. Binding is tight; superficial cracking is beginning to show on the rear inside spine not affecting the hinge function still tight and there is some mild foxing or staining on the back cover. Some sunning to spine. Endpapers are plain. Original BOMC dust-jacket is very good. There is slight wear on the edges and folding and wrinkling on the spine-ends and corner tips but almost no loss from chipping. 186 pages; measures about 5x 7.5 ". COVICI-FRIEDE hardcover
1952ref. 022511New York: Viking Press 1952 First printing of the first edition first state. Original green cloth boards front cover printed in dark green spine printed in black on brown background pictorial jacket. 602pp. with the word "bite" present on page 281 line 38. First issue jacket with photo of Steinbeck on rear panel with no photo credit mentioned. Steinbeck's epic novel about two families who settle in the rich farmlands of California Goldstone-Payne A32.b. Book with light toning to edge of boards and two small faint blemishes to top page edge else in fine condition; dust jacket with a couple tiny rubbed spots edges lightly toned and light wear to extremities else fine. A lovely copy seldom seen in this condition. Basis for the 1955 film starring James Dean. Viking Press hardcover
1952ref. 005760New York: The Viking Press. First Edition First Printing. $4.50 printed price present on the front flap. First issue with bite for bight on page 281 line 38. Internally bright with no foxing marks or bookplates. Not ex libris. Brightly colored unclipped DJ in archival cover spine sunned edge wear large chips small tear. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1952. The Viking Press hardcover
1952ref. 000131New York: The Viking Press. DJ in archival cover chips small tears toning front hinge starting. First Edition First Printing First State with "First Published by the Viking Press September 1952". Bite instead of bight present page 281 line 38. Clean and bright internally with no marks foxing nor bookplates. Not ex libris. Brightly colored unclipped first state DJ with picture of Steinbeck on the back and $4.50 on front flap in archival cover sunned. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1952. The Viking Press hardcover
1937ref. 140949571New York: Covici Friede 1937. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. First issue of the text with "pendula" on page 9 and a bullet between the two 8's of the page number on page 88. 186 pp. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in orange and black blue topstain. Near Fine with very light sunning to cloth. In a Near Fine dust jacket corners lightly clipped but price of $2.00 intact with sunned spine panel and modest edgewear. A fantastic copy of Steinbeck's Western novella about the struggles of two itinerant farm workers George and Lennie in California during the Great Depression. One of only 2500 copies printed in the first issue. Covici Friede unknown
1947ref. 140949932New York: The Viking Press 1947. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A superlative copy of the first edition first printing. Bound in publisher's brown cloth decoratively stamped in black with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with faint tape ghosts to front and rear free endpapers. In a Near Fine first issue dust jacket with Steinbeck's portrait facing toward the spine; a vibrant example unclipped with light rubbing at the extremities light soiling to the rear panel and light tanning. A much nicer example than normally encountered. Goldstone & Payne A25a. The Viking Press unknown
1947ref. 140949953New York: The Viking Press 1947. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's brown cloth decoratively stamped in black with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light lean and light wear to binding. In a Very Good unclipped first issue dust jacket with Steinbeck's portrait facing toward the spine; light rubbing and edge wear toning fading to the spine. A nice copy. Goldstone & Payne A25a. The Viking Press unknown
ref. 29916N.p. n.d. 25pp. on versos of 25 unruled sheets. 1 vols. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. Very good. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith. Bound with a cover Typed Letter Signed 10/30/69 from Shirley McCurry's secretarial service to BURGESS MEREDITH saying: "Dear Mr. Meredith Gwyn Steinbeck asked that we forward the enclosed poems to you. She will send the material to fill in the blanks as soon as she is able to decipher it . . 25pp. on versos of 25 unruled sheets. 1 vols. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. These are Gwyn's own transcriptions of the love poems written to her by Steinbeck sent to their good friend Burgess Meredith. It is not clear whether the manuscripts have survived although Jackson Benson p. 57 states of the little poetry which Steinbeck wrote "there is a series of love poems written to his second wife Gwyn which has also survived. unknown
1937ref. 140949571New York: Covici Friede 1937. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. First issue of the text with "pendula" on page 9 and a bullet between the two 8's of the page number on page 88. 186 pp. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in orange and black blue topstain. Near Fine with very light sunning to cloth. In a Near Fine dust jacket corners lightly clipped but price of $2.00 intact with sunned spine panel and modest edgewear. A fantastic copy of Steinbeck's Western novella about the struggles of two itinerant farm workers George and Lennie in California during the Great Depression. One of only 2500 copies printed in the first issue. Covici Friede unknown books
1947ref. 140949932New York: The Viking Press 1947. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A superlative copy of the first edition first printing. Bound in publisher's brown cloth decoratively stamped in black with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with faint tape ghosts to front and rear free endpapers. In a Near Fine first issue dust jacket with Steinbeck's portrait facing toward the spine; a vibrant example unclipped with light rubbing at the extremities light soiling to the rear panel and light tanning. A much nicer example than normally encountered. Goldstone & Payne A25a. The Viking Press unknown books
