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1935Best.-Nr. 1370959London: William Heinemann 1935. First UK Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 268 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in blue cloth with black text on sunned spine. Lacking issued dust jacket. Boards have sunning to spine bumping and rubbing to corners and bending to spine edges. Text block has owner inscription on front endpaper splitting to gutter of page 268 and slight pencil writing on rear pastedown. "First Published 1935" on copyright page. Shelved Case 13. 1370959. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. William Heinemann hardcover books
1964Best.-Nr. 603863New York City: Privately Printed 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarter leather & decorated paper boards. Wear on the board edges thus very good. One of 200 copies "not for sale." A eulogy for John Emery consisting of 4pp. of text 2pp. by Zachary Scott & 2pp. by Steinbeck plus a portrait photo. illustration. On the title page it reads "as read at the services." followed by a typewritten correction "in New York City November 18 1964" laid down over the original incorrect date. Privately Printed hardcover books
1942Best.-Nr. 000041Viking 1942 Fine/ NearFine. First edition second state with no period between "talk" and 'this" on line 11 page 112 printer's name on copyright page Dust jacket is price clipped and has a 1/8" closed tear on front white on back of jacket tanned. A truly handsome copy. Viking hardcover
1952Best.-Nr. 016183New York: Viking Press 1952. First printing. First published statement on copyright page and 1952 on title page. Dust jacket is a bright fresh facsimilie of the first issue jacket with Steinbeck photograph on back panel done by a company in San Francisco. Light green cloth boards. Spine only very lightly tanned Light wear at spine ends and tips. Text unmarked supple tight and square. In mylar. . First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Fine Facsimile Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Viking Press Hardcover
1940Best.-Nr. feb1120861940 First Chilean Edition of The Grapes of Wrath Las uvas de la ira Used. For more details please contact me Zig-Zag
1940Best.-Nr. feb1160591940 First Argentine Edition of The Grapes of Wrath Rare Cover Viñas de ira Used. For more details please contact me Claridad
1947Best.-Nr. 603316New York: The Viking Press 1947. Illustrated Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Peggy Worthington. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Previous owner name inked on FEP. Foxing along text block edges. Light shelfwear along dust jacket edges.; Paintings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 213 pages. The Viking Press hardcover
1961Best.-Nr. 001117New York: The Viking Press 1961. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good. 7 1/2" X 5 1/2. Elmer Haderjacket. Blue cloth covered boards have blind stamped Viking colophon on front panel silver gilt text and black title box on spine. Fore edge of front panel is mottledsunning top edge blue stain is sunned as well partial paper stamp remnant ffep. Book is tight and square. Price clipped DJ has b/w portrait of author with faux signature 3 blurbs on rear panel. Bookseller's Inventory # 221117. The Viking Press hardcover
1961Best.-Nr. 18652New York: The Viking Press 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 500 copies. 311pp. Blue cloth stamped in gold on the cover and gold and black on the spine mustard yellow endpapers. Some creases to free endpapers else a bright fine copy in near fine dustjacket with mild wear and toning to edges. Lacks the acetate dustjacket with the limited edition statement. Dustjacket illustration by Elmer Hader. Goldstone and Payne A38a. A nice copy. ; Octavo. The Viking Press hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 059412New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 619 Pp. Oatmeal Burlap Stamped In Maroon Light Orange Topstain "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" Endpapers As Issued. "First Published In April 1939" Stated No Additional Printing Indicated; First Issue. Steinbeck's Classic Novel Of Small Farmers Migrating To California In The Depression Using The Formal Structure Of Greek Tragedy With Man's Expectations Of Society As The Tragic Protagonist. Book Is Near Fine Slight Usage Lettering Strong Cloth Clean Very Little Browning. No Marks Or Names Or Bookplates. Hinges Tight. Not A Scarce Book But Exceptionally Well Preserved. The Viking Press hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 1396Budapest: Uj idök Irodalmi Intézet Rt. Singer és Wolfner kiadása 1946. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Cover slightly chipped dusted. Pages yellowed due to the acidic paper. Otherwise in very good condition. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 164 p. First Hungarian edition of John Steinbeck’s 1935 early novel Tortilla Flat. Uj idök Irodalmi Intézet Rt. (Singer és Wolfner) kiadása unknown
Best.-Nr. JD39181n.p. Hollywood United Artists n.d. 1939 first edition thus wrappers. Softcover. This is the official program for the first film version of Steinbeck's play/novelette the film starred Burgess Meredith as George and Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie it was directed by Lewis Milestone screenplay was by Eugene Solow musical score was by Aaron Copland includes a short introduction by Hal Roach loaded with photographs and drawings most of which are scenes from the film or portraits of the stars front cover says this is "The picture Hollywood Said Could Never Be Made" includes a full page devoted just to a photo and biography of Steinbeck it also includes portraits of each of the stars and some of the supporting cast plus much material about the stars literary critic Lewis Gannett offers material abut Steinbeck and his work it also includes production highlights plus material about both the book and the play while Adrian H. Goldstone had a copy of this program it was not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow Holmes E64c. Bit of soiling and age-toning and with a vertical crease to covers but still a very good solid copy of a very scarce document. n.p. (Hollywood), United Artists, n.d. (1939), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. paperback
Best.-Nr. JD29206San Francisco CTA Journal 1952-1969 first edition. These hardcovers are bound volumes being from Vol. 48 through Vol. 65 which cover the reign of its former owner J. Wilson McKenney who was editor of the CTA California Teachers Association Journal from September 1952 until May 1970 he was also publisher of his own "Out West" magazine who also published materials having to do with California history mining deserts and the like through his Wilmac Press the piece by Steinbeck was published in the November 1955 issue page 7 which McKenney later published separately as a broadside limited to just 12 copies in 1959 which is one of the rarest of all Steinbeck items the original article was part of a series the CTA Journal published on famous Californians others included in that series were Herbert Hoover Ralph Bunche Walt Disney Earl Warren and others all of these bound volumes came from the library of McKenney see Goldstone & Payne C127 not recorded by Morrow. The bindings are all at least very good the bound-in issues are fine. San Francisco, CTA Journal, 1952-1969, first edition. hardcover
Best.-Nr. JD29465NY Farrar Straus & Giroux 1976 first edition wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy an uncorrected proof edited by Chase Horton these tales are Steinbeck's attempt to render Malory "into modern English" the importance to Steinbeck and his literature of the Morte d'Arthur cannot be over-stated as he writes in his introduction "I think my sense of right and wrong.and any thought I may have had against the oppressor and for the oppressed came from this book" this copy is especially important because it was one of two copies sent to novelist John Gardner author of such novels as Grendel and The Resurrection Gardner also wrote The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet The Alliterative Morte Arthure and other "olde English" books this copy includes Gardner's pencil marks underlining and bracketing of sections as well as a list on the front cover of possible places of publication for blurbs and/or reviews this was originally obtained from Susan Thornton who was Gardner's fiancee at the time of his death Morrow 284. Very good. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. paperback
1938Best.-Nr. 013056New York: The Viking Press 1938. Nice copy of first printingQuarter bound in textured cloth with light brown lettering to the spine. Light brown top stain still bright. Clean fresh copy. Unmarked tight and square. Price intact jacket has illustration on front panel by Elmer Hader who also did jacket for The Grapes of Wrath. Jacket has shallow chip at head of spine but is clean and unfaded. In mylar. . Firs American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus to Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Viking Press Hardcover
1950Best.-Nr. 13127New York: Viking Press 1950. First edition. 8vo full grey cloth lettered in red on upper cover and spine in dustjacket. 159. A bright clean and unusually nice copy. In the Foreword Steinbeck writes his reasons for writing in this format - play-novellette: "I find it difficult to read plays and in this I do not find myself alone. The printed play is read almost exclusively by people closely associated with the theater by students of the theater and by the comparatively small group of readers who are passionately fond of the theater. .this will be more widely read because it is presented as ordinary fiction. Viking Press hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 009984London: William Heinemann 1937. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine has faint hint of spine lean. Lightly spotted to top board. No markings. Sharp tips. Jacket is a professional facsimilie that is brand new bright clean and sharp. In mylar. . First UK Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William Heinemann Hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 204new york: covici friede 1937. second state 1937. printed the same year as the first edition. classic american novella that takes place during the great depression. follows the experiences of two migrant farmworkers as they move from place to place in search of work. steinbeck based the story on his experience working alongside migrant farmworkers as a teenager in california. steinbeck's 1962 nobel prize citation called the work a "little masterpiece." originally written with a stage play in mind "of mice and men" was adapted as a hollywood film in 1939. gold stone and payne a7b new york: covici friede. 4.75 x 7.5". 186 pages. hardcover. book condition: tiny closed tear to page 9 else fine. jacket condition: mild fading colors mild shelfwear else fine. no price as issued. fine-. covici friede unknown
1951Best.-Nr. ABE-1706053271463Viking 1951 Published by the Viking Press 1951. First edition in maroon cloth with dust jacket. Book is in very very good condition slight bumping and rubbing to corners the slightest shelf wear to bottom edge and tail of spine. Endpapers are nice and bright. A very small nick or hole to the hinge of back cover through the endpaper. Interior is sharp and clean some very slight age-toning overall. Jacket is sunned at spine and around edges of front cover chips to edges and corners 1" closed tear to upper left corner of front cover. Short tears at top of back cover have been mended with scotch tape. Overall lightly soiled. Flaps are mildly age-toned but unclipped. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Viking hardcover
1984Best.-Nr. 108077The Yolla Bolly Press. 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 1984. The Yolla Bolly Press. 53 pages. #144 of 250 copies. SIGNED on limitation page by Wallace Stegner Karin Wikstrom Efrain Rameriz actor who plays Pepe the star of the film version. Number Two in a Series: California Writers of the Land. Illustrations printed direct from the artist's blocks over lithograph color. Book and Slipcase are in FINE condition. ; #2 in a Series: California Writers of the Land; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 53 pages; Signed by Associated . The Yolla Bolly Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. 06579London: Heinemann 1958. Steinbeck & Ricketts in the Gulf of California A Scientific Journey Recast as Literature STEINBECK John. The Log from the the Sea of Cortez. The narrative portion of the book Sea of Cortez with a profile "About Ed Ricketts". London: Heinemann 1958. First U.K. edition. Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm. lxvii 1 blank 1 1 blank 282 pp. Publisher's blue cloth over boards spine lettered in gilt. Corners a little bumped slight fading approx. 1/8 inch at foot of spine and some very light foxing. Original color printed dust jacket with minimal rubbing at extremities. Blue pencil inscription dated "19.9.58" on verso of front free endpaper. A very good copy in an excellent dust jacket. A reworking of Steinbeck's earlier collaborative expedition narrative with marine biologist Ed Ricketts originally published as Sea of Cortez 1941. In this later version Steinbeck presents the narrative portion alone accompanied by his moving biographical essay on Ricketts written after his friend's death. The result is a more personal and reflective work - part travel narrative part scientific observation and part elegy - capturing both the ecological richness of the Gulf of California and the intellectual companionship that shaped Steinbeck's thinking. Goldstone & Payne: see A40 U.S. edition; U.K. issue not separately enumerated. London: Heinemann, 1958 unknown
1936Best.-Nr. 4799New York: Pynson Printers 1936. First edition. First separate edition printed at the request of Elmer Adler for presentation to Gabriel Lambert. Publisher's quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. A Near Fine copy with faint sunning to spine and small split to cloth to the front joint near the crown; gentle bumps to corners. Internally fresh and unread. A pleasing copy. The first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story that formed a portion of Steinbeck's novel The Pastures of Heaven. Here in a lovely fine paper copy made for presentation by the Pynson Printers. Pynson Printers unknown
Best.-Nr. 06579London: Heinemann 1958. Steinbeck & Ricketts in the Gulf of California A Scientific Journey Recast as Literature STEINBECK John. The Log from the the Sea of Cortez. The narrative portion of the book Sea of Cortez with a profile "About Ed Ricketts". London: Heinemann 1958. First U.K. edition. Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm. lxvii 1 blank 1 1 blank 282 pp. Publisher's blue cloth over boards spine lettered in gilt. Corners a little bumped slight fading approx. 1/8 inch at foot of spine and some very light foxing. Original color printed dust jacket with minimal rubbing at extremities. Blue pencil inscription dated "19.9.58" on verso of front free endpaper. A very good copy in an excellent dust jacket. A reworking of Steinbeck's earlier collaborative expedition narrative with marine biologist Ed Ricketts originally published as Sea of Cortez 1941. In this later version Steinbeck presents the narrative portion alone accompanied by his moving biographical essay on Ricketts written after his friend's death. The result is a more personal and reflective work - part travel narrative part scientific observation and part elegy - capturing both the ecological richness of the Gulf of California and the intellectual companionship that shaped Steinbeck's thinking. Goldstone & Payne: see A40 U.S. edition; U.K. issue not separately enumerated. London: Heinemann, 1958 unknown books
1936Best.-Nr. 4799New York: Pynson Printers 1936. First edition. First separate edition printed at the request of Elmer Adler for presentation to Gabriel Lambert. Publisher's quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. A Near Fine copy with faint sunning to spine and small split to cloth to the front joint near the crown; gentle bumps to corners. Internally fresh and unread. A pleasing copy. The first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story that formed a portion of Steinbeck's novel The Pastures of Heaven. Here in a lovely fine paper copy made for presentation by the Pynson Printers. Pynson Printers unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 5937New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. First Edition Second Printing. This book is a first edition second printing - so stated on the copyright page. In its original dust jacket with the $2.00 price present on the front flap. Book measures approximately 5" x 7.5" with 186 numbered pages. This book is in good plus condition. Moderate wear and staining to the cloth boards. Front hinge is cracked. Previous owner's signature on the front endpaper. Textblock has minor foxing. Dust jacket is in good condition. Moderate chipping to the spine ends and extremities. Surface wear and staining to the panels. Original $2.00 price is present on the front flap. "Of Mice and Men" narrates the experiences of two displaced migrant ranch workers who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #O4-90. Covici Friede Publishers unknown
