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Steinbeck, John; Gannett, RuthBiblio.com

TORTILLA FLAT

1935ref. 41022New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1935. First printing. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. First edition of this oft-comical tale of post-World War I Monterey following the exploits of a wine-loving and vaguely Arthurian group of paisanos a beautiful copy in the scarce original dust jacket. The lighthearted tone of TORTILLA FLAT lifted the spirits of Americans during the Great Depression for whom "reading and the movies were escape. escape from grinding poverty escape from worrying about how to pay the rent escape from worrying about how to find a job" San Jose. Danny and his round table of friends are rarely concerned with any of those issues as they meander through life in Monterey undeniably poor but not experiencing the tragedy of poverty in the same way as many of Steinbeck's later characters. Steinbeck even drew joy from writing the work: "it is light and I think amusing. I don't care whether it amounts to anything. I am enjoying it and I need something to help me over this last ditch" Steinbeck and Wallsten. TORTILLA FLAT did of course amount to something earning the California Commonwealth Club's Gold Medal and a mention in the justification for Steinbeck's 1962 Nobel Prize. It was also made into a 1942 film starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr and was one of the top box office grossers of the year. This first edition is a crystallization of the beginning of Steinbeck's career before his works were required reading in classrooms across America. With Ruth Gannett's illustrations nestled throughout the text TORTILLA FLAT is a refreshingly light title in a broad oeuvre. 7.5'' x 5''. Original tan cloth binding with blue spine lettering. Original unclipped $2.50 pictorial dust jacket in blue and black. Blue topstain. Fore-edge machine deckle. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 318 pages. Housed in custom blue leather-backed clamshell box. Jacket with some edgewear mild chipping to spine ends; spine sunned. Binding corners and spine ends lightly bumped topstain a bit faded; tiny creases to lower margins of pages 316-318. A clean sound copy. Covici Friede Publishers unknown

Type Punch Matrix · Estados UnidosUS$ 5.600,00≈ € 4.993,31

Steinbeck, John; Gannett, RuthABAA

TORTILLA FLAT

Type Punch Matrix · Estados UnidosUS$ 5.600,00≈ € 4.993,31

Hemingway, Ernest [John Steinbeck]Biblio.com

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories.

1938ref. 145913New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1938. First edition second printing of this famed Hemingway anthology containing his only published play as well as the first appearance in book form of The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Night Before Battle. Octavo original publisher's cloth. Association copy inscribed on the pastedown by Carol Brown Steinbeck to her husband John Steinbeck "For John on his birthday. 1940 With love Carol." The recipient Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck remains perhaps best-known for his 1939 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Grapes of Wrath. Throughout the course of his career Steinbeck authored 33 books including 16 novels six works of non-fiction and two collections of short stories most notably Tortilla Flat 1935 and Cannery Row 1945 East of Eden 1952 and Of Mice and Men 1937. Steinbeck and Hemingway did not know each other personally although they had a number of mutual friends. The only known correspondence between them is a letter sent by Steinbeck who in 1939 wrote to Hemingway to express his admiration for Hemingway’s writing technique in “The Butterfly and the Tank.” The letter led to Hemingway and Steinbeck's now-famous singular meeting in 1944 at Tim Costello’s restaurant in New York arranged by mutual friends at Hemingway’s request. Steinbeck married three times. He and his first wife Carol Janella Henning Brown married in January 1930 in Los Angeles and were divorced in 1942. Carole traveled with John when he wrote the Grapes of Wrath In Dubious Battle and Tortilla Flat assisting and supporting him in the writing process. Very good in a very good dust jacket. From the library of John Steinbeck. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise slipcase. An exceptional association copy. The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories contains Hemingway's only full-length play The Fifth Column and 49 short stories. Many of the stories included in the collection appear in other collections including In Our Time Men Without Women Winner Take Nothing and The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Some of the collection's important stories are rather short. It also includes some longer stories among them "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover

Raptis Rare Books · Estados UnidosUS$ 6.500,00≈ € 5.795,81

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