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1943réf. 009846Stockholm: Zephyr Books / The Continental Book Company. First edition. Scarce original 1943 Zephyr Books wartime hard cover issue. Published Stockholm: Zephyr Books / The Continental Book Company 1943. Text in English. 8vo. 5" x 7 1/4" 553pp. Plain beige cloth with cover inlays on heavy boards patterned endpapers top edge tinted brown. Some darkening to the spine cloth light foxing on rear pastedown. Very good. Zephyr Books later reissued the title in 1948 as a paperback. . Very Good. Hard. 1st. 1943. Zephyr Books / The Continental Book Company unknown
1945réf. CanneryRow1stCannery Row by John Steinbeck author of The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men and East of Eden Hardcover First Edition - First Printing - Second State Binding - First State Dust Jacket Viking 1945. $2.00 cover price inside front dust jacket flap. First Printing since there is NO subsequent printing information on the copyright page. Second state canary yellow boards with blue lines and lettering on the front and spine. NOT to be confused with the wartime edition in blue boards. see edition information below Fine- in Near Fine unrestored Dust Jacket. A really nice exceptional copy in dust jacket. The book itself is just about fine with very clean pages. Dust jacket is quite clean and bright at the front and does NOT have any major tears. Typical edge-wear top and bottom spine and rubbing and nicks to the same and at the corners and some typical soiling to the back of the dust jacket. Overall a very clean and presentable first edition copy of one of the half-dozen major works of Steinbeck. Note on edition/state: The first edition/first printing of this book appeared in two states both released simultaneously. The first state has been determined to be buff-colored somewhat tan-like boards while the second state is canary yellow. Apparently during production the printers ran out of the buff/tan materials for the boards and to meet the publishing deadline yellow colored materials were brought in and used for the rest of the print-run. Purists collectors will contest the buff-colored boards are the most preferable. However they really represent at best simply two states of the first printing not two printings as further printings would be indicated subsequently because the book was popular since copies of both states were released simultaneously in 1945. At the time buyers would have had about a 50-50 chance of purchasing either the buff or yellow boards of these copies. Typically first state copies of the buff-tan variety in near fine or better dust jackets are priced at $2000 while the yellow boards as offered here can be had for a fraction of the price. Everything else the pages the dust jacket price etc are the same. As a collector I am more interested in the condition of the dust jacket rather than whether the boards are first or second state. Shortly thereafter a so-called wartime edition was issued in blue boards. The wartime edition while a good reading copy has essentially almost no premium value on the collectors market. NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers. ALSO: The pictures are of the actual item for sale. The pictures are NOT stock photos. Viking hardcover
1938réf. 1056Some discoloration to spine of book. Discoloration of pages due to age of book. DJ without clipped corners. Original price $2.50. DJ has rubs to edge and spine edge. Slight toning to spine. 1st edition The Viking Press hardcover
1937réf. 313192Covici-Friede 1937. First Edition. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. First printing. Jacket is not clipped but does have several small chips and closed tears. Very small bump at top corner; endpapers darkened at gutters. Else an excellent copy. Covici-Friede hardcover
1937réf. 4423New 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 very good plus condition. Minor staining to the fore edge of textblock. Old bookseller ticket on rear pastedown. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. Original dust jacket is in good condition. Heavy chipping to the spine ends and extremities. Original $2.00 price present on the front flap. Jacket is separated at front gutter and is now held together with tape. Presents very nicely under fresh mylar cover. "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 #N6-6. Covici Friede Publishers unknown
1941réf. 47528New York: The Viking Press 1941. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: The Viking Press 1941. First Edition cloth issue. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket with $5.00 price intact; green cloth boards stamped in silver; orange topstain; map endpapers; 598pp. Plates including photographs and drawings some color. Dust jacket worn and creased with chipping along edges and split along bottom third of rear fold. Boards shelfworn with minor bumping to corners. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good in a Good to Very Good dust jacket. Account by Steinbeck and his good friend Edward Ricketts of their six week fishing and boating expedition in the Gulf of California. Goldstone & Payne A15.b. The Viking Press unknown
1941réf. 47528New York: The Viking Press 1941. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: The Viking Press 1941. First Edition cloth issue. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket with $5.00 price intact; green cloth boards stamped in silver; orange topstain; map endpapers; 598pp. Plates including photographs and drawings some color. Dust jacket worn and creased with chipping along edges and split along bottom third of rear fold. Boards shelfworn with minor bumping to corners. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good in a Good to Very Good dust jacket. Account by Steinbeck and his good friend Edward Ricketts of their six week fishing and boating expedition in the Gulf of California. Goldstone & Payne A15.b. The Viking Press unknown books
1996réf. 1697Ireland: Salmon Poetry 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. A neat association copy not signed but laid in is a postcard written and signed by both Adrienne Rich and Irish poet Eavan Boland who wrote the eight-page foreword to this Irish edition of Rich's selected poems. The postcard depicts John Steinbeck on 17 Mile Drive in Carmel on its front and is addressed to Boland's husband Kevin Casey in Dublin. Rich writes: "Dear Kevin we missed you here today in 'East of Eden' country! It's good news that you & E. & S. are coming in March -- I hope very much to see you all then. Adrienne." Boland follows: "We had a lovely lovely day in Salinas. Much much love -- E." Steinbeck was born and raised in Salinas Boland taught at Stanford where Steinbeck went to college and Rich lived in Santa Cruz and also for a time taught at Stanford--a nice Northern California literary association all around. Also laid in on two printed pages is an exchange of emails between Rich and Boland forwarded to Casey in which Rich sends unexpected regrets about not being able to travel to Ireland and sends a list of poems she planned to read at an event presumably from this book while giving Boland permission to read other poems as she'd like. Rich was one of the twentieth century's most influential feminist poets and won the National Book Award for Diving Into the Wreck. Boland championed the role of women in Irish history in her verse and was the winner of a Lannan Literary Award among many other international honors. A fine book in a very good jacket with light sunning greening to the spine and otherwise on trace edge wear. Salmon Poetry hardcover
1945réf. 8070New York: The Viking Press 1945. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Second issue in the canary yellow cloth. A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy of the book. Contemporary ink ownership signature to upper free endpaper. Dust jacket with some chipping to edges and to one fold. Jacket spine a bit darkened and some dustsoiling to edges of flaps but presenting very well. Overall a bright and appealing copy of Steinbeck's celebrated novel about the Cannery Row community of Monterey California. Steinbeck's straightforward prose follows the trials and tribulations of the Cannery Row community in Great Depression-era Monterey. The novel begins with a singular focus: a group of friends will throw a thank-you party for Doc a marine biologist. But such a venture envelops the larger community and through this larger scope Cannery Row explores friendship community nostalgia and the profound social effects of the Great Depression. Indeed the fame of the novel would help turn Cannery Row into a kind of tourist attraction. Steinbeck had just come home from being a war correspondent and the experience - along with his failing marriage - scarred him considerably. He began this book as kind of an escape both for him and for his readers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. The Viking Press unknown
réf. 1640Light staining and wear to boards slight offsetting to endleaves; large ownership signature in green ink to front free endpaper jacket sunned creased and chipped with tape reinforcement to verso. Very good. John Steinbeck. Cannery Row. New York: The Viking Press 1945. First edition in second state yellow cloth. Octavo. 208pp. Publisher's yellow cloth spine and front cover lettered in blue black top-stain original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $2.00. Housed in later illustrated slipcase. . unknown
1945réf. 55246New York: The Viking Press 1945. First edition. The story is set during the Great Depression in Monterey California on a street lined with sardine canneries that is now known as Cannery Row. The story revolves around the people living there. The actual location was Ocean View Avenue later renamed "Cannery Row" in honor of the book. A movie starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger film version was released in 1982. The book is the first issue buff cloth is fine with the barest wear in dust jacket with minor wear and rubbing on corners and spine ends repair tape on verso on top spine and back cover white portions aged a bit. The Viking Press unknown
réf. 3551John Steinbeck. East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press 1952. First edition first issue with "bite" for 'bright" on page 281. Octavo. 602pp. Publisher's green cloth spine lettered and decorated in green and orange front cover in green original 2nd issue dust jacket. Spine sunned and creased boards slightly rubbed and sunned; corners gently bumped; minor toning throughout; price-clipped second state jacket with reviews rather than author photo sunned creased and torn rear panel detached tape repairs to verso. A very good copy in a good jacket. unknown
1969réf. 1264681969. New York: The Viking Press 1969. Narrow 4to 148 pp. Yellow card wrappers lettered in black with folding box. Upper wrappers numbered "11" in top left corner. very light wear to spine of wrappers box spotted else very good. § Unrevised proofs. Steinbeck's day-by-day account of the writing of East of Eden in the form of letters to his friend and publisher Pat Covici. The book was published posthumously in an edition of 600 copies. "John Steinbeck in writing East of Eden warmed up for the daily stint ahead in a "letter" to his editor the late Pascal Covici. It was written in pencil usually on the left-hand pages of a large notebook which Covici had supplied. Then when Steinbeck felt ready he proceeded to the text of the novel on the right-hand pages. The writing covered the period from January 29 to November 1 1951. There was a "letter" for every working day. The letter was primarily a method of flexing the author's mental and physical muscles. Steinbeck sometimes used it to adumbrate the problems and purposes of the passage on which he was about to embark-"a kind of arguing ground for the story" as he said once. At other times it consisted of random thoughts trial flights in wordsmanship nuggets of information and comment about the events of the moment both personal and public. But the letters were also full of serious thinking about this novel his longest and most ambitious as well as about novel-writing in general. Never intended for publication they cast a flood of light on the author's mind and on the nature of the creative process. And in the private glimpses of the Nobel-Prize-winning writer-his concern about his sons his hobbies such as wood- carving and carpentry his passion for invention-they are autobiographical material of the first order. In a sense this is Steinbeck's testament. unknown
réf. 06586New York: The Viking Press 1942. Steinbeck in Wartime - A Novel of Resistance and Moral Courage First Edition First Issue of The Moon Is Down STEINBECK John. The Moon Is Down. A Novel. New York: The Viking Press 1942. First edition first issue with the large dot between "talk" and "this" on p. 112 line 11. Octavo 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 188 x 121 mm. 2 blank 1-10 11-188 2 blank pp. Publisher's blue linen over boards front cover lettered in blind spine stamped in silver top edge stained pale blue. A fine copy in a near fine pictorial dust jacket with only minimal rubbing to extremities. A powerful wartime allegory written at the height of World War II The Moon Is Down was conceived as a work of morale-building fiction portraying the quiet but unyielding resistance of an occupied town against an unnamed invading force. Though deliberately universal in setting its message was unmistakable and the book was widely circulated in clandestine editions throughout occupied Europe becoming an important cultural weapon of resistance. This is the true first issue with the well-known priority point on p. 112-"talk·this" - a detail of particular importance to Steinbeck collectors. Copies in such fine condition especially with a bright well-preserved dust jacket are increasingly difficult to locate. Bibliography: Goldstone & Payne A16a. New York: The Viking Press, 1942 unknown
1936réf. 4800New York: Pynson Printers 1936. First edition. First separate edition printed for presentation but without an information inked in at the limitation page. 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
1936réf. 24731New York:: Pynson Printers 1936. First edition; this copy presented by the publisher to "The Lowenthals" on the colophon page. publisher's cloth-backed marbled boards. A near fine copy slight shelf wear to bottom edge. . 8vo. Pynson Printers], hardcover
1937réf. 72731New York: Covici Friede 1937. First edition. First issue with "pendula" p. 9 dot between 8's p. 88 and printer J. J. Little and Ives. In unpriced dust jacket with all four corners evenly clipped and "it" for "is" in last line of second to last paragraph on back flap later printing dust jackets versus presumed book club ones state as such at bottom of front flap. 12mo or small 8vo beige cloth stamped in orange and black on front and spine; top edge blue; 186 pages. Good at best with spine considerably darkened blue top-edge stain just about faded away staining to covers and boards visible at tips; in equally good at best dust jacket with spine fading but quite readable rubbed creasing few scratches on spine small chips and tears old internal tape repairs and new internal archival tape repairs. Still a relatively presentable copy of the increasingly scarce first issue of which there were only 2500 copies printed. Covici Friede unknown
1954réf. 005967Viking Press. First Edition First Printing. Clipped DJ in archival cover wear to head of spine. Stated first published by The Viking Press in June 1954. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1954. Viking Press hardcover
1947réf. 29905Paris 1947. Four strips of teletyped text affixed to "Post Office Overseas Telegram" form received at the Central Telegraph Office in London. 1 vols. 5-3/8 x 7-1/2 inches. Very good. Four strips of teletyped text affixed to "Post Office Overseas Telegram" form received at the Central Telegraph Office in London. 1 vols. 5-3/8 x 7-1/2 inches. While Steinbeck is in Paris on his tour of Europe he wires his friend at the Claridge Hotel in London: "IN REGARD TO STAGE AND SCREEN ANNIE LAURIE IS THE QUEEN GOOD LUCK - JOHN - " Annie Laurie Williams was their agent; at the time Meredith was playing on the London Stage in "Winterset." with: MEREDITH Burgess. Telegram retained copy to Steinbeck from London to Paris at the Hotel Lancaster 8 July 1947: "CANNOT CONTACT CAPA TRIED INCESSANTLY STOP CABLE WHEN POSSIBLE TELEPHONE YOU PASTURES OF HEAVEN DEAL VERY HOT LOVE BURGESS" At the time Steinbeck was working with Capa on stories for the Herald Tribune. unknown
1976réf. 24709New York: Farrar Strfaus and Giroux 1976. Uncorrected Proof. Thin 4to. 10 274pp. Tan printed wrappers. A fine bright copy. Ucorrected proof of Steinbeck's posthumous work edited by Chase Horton STeinbeck's rendering of the Winchester Malory into modern English from the definitive edition of Professor Vinaver. . Farrar, Strfaus and Giroux unknown
1939réf. 58619NY: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition seventh printing. Published two months after the first printing which was published in April 1939. There were 430000 copies printed in the first year. Goldstone-Payne A12a Notes. Thick 8vo. pictorial gray cloth in original dust jacket. 619 pages. Very Good covers nice; contents clean & tight; ink name dated "Oct. 31 1939" at the upper corner of the front pastedown; minor edgewear one-inch tear on each side at the top of the spine are internally repaired with clear archival tape; "Seventh Printing" on front flap d/j. A nice copy. The Viking Press unknown
1942réf. 148828New York: The Viking Press 1942. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo original blue cloth. The first edition has a large period between "talk" and "this" on page 112 line 11. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Ownership plate to the front free endpaper. In 1941 Steinbeck met “with officials of the Foreign Information Service a newly formed unit of what would soon become the Office of Strategic Services to discuss the future of American counterpropaganda efforts. The Moon Is Down begun later the same month had its origins in Steinbeck’s long-standing desire to contribute to these efforts… Steinbeck submitted a first finished draft of The Moon Is Down originally written as a play called ‘The New Order’ and set in a mid-sized town in the United States to agency officials; they turned it down concerned that the prospect of an occupied America might lower morale. Early in December Steinbeck began revising the work shifting the setting to a generic northern Europe and recasting the play as a novel; he sent his revised draft to Pascal Covici his editor at Viking later in December. The Moon Is Down as a novel appeared in book form in March 1942. A stage version opened on Broadway on April 9 1942 and was published by Dramatists Play Service in New York later in the same year” Library of America. Second issue with the Haddon Craftsmen name on the copyright page and no period between "talk" and "this" on p. 112 line 11 The Viking Press hardcover
1949réf. 81303New York: Bantam Books 1949. Unbound. Fine. Color poster for the first Bantam Books paperback edition issued to coincide with the release of the motion picture starring Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum. Approximately 22" x 28". Very slight loss at the bottom edge and a couple of very small tears in the margins else easily fine. Boldly printed reproducing the front cover of the paperback depicting Loy and Mitchum and other images from the film. Very scarce. Bantam Books unknown
1947réf. 003288New York: Viking 1947. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Printing. This appears to be a prospectus copy that preceded the regularly published first edition. The dustjacket is the same as the published trade edition. The $2.75 price is present. The book is fine in light blue cloth The published trade edition was bound in brick red cloth with no lettering. This very thin book has only 24 pages which includes most of the first chapter which was later published in the first trade edition. Extremely scarce. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. Viking Hardcover
1947réf. 003280New York: Viking 1947. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Printing. This appears to be a trial copy that preceded the published first edition. The dustjacket has a very different color pattern then the published trade edition. Everything else is identical. The $2.75 price is present. The book is fine in brick red cloth with gilt stamping bright and complete. Unlike the published trade edition the book has blue topstain on the page block. Extremely scarce. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. Viking Hardcover
