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1936ref. 2240First Covici Friede Edition in First state dust jacket with no mention of "Of Mice and Men" with the original Covici Friede title blacked out and the $2.50 price intact on the front flap. A Near Fine book in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Also called the 2nd Edition of the book having originally been published by McBride in 1929; however this edition reportedly includes sheets from that first edition so some call this 1st Edition 2nd State; this is the author's first published novel. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the title page to a previous owner who also put his name and address discreetly underneath the front flap. This copy is in near fine condition with a square tight binding gold lettering over clean maroon boards and clean white pages with only a hint of foxing throughout; the book does show some light rubbing and sunning to the top board edges and a mild gutter exposure to the first few pages else fine. Housed in a clean and bright very good or better dust jacket that shows some moderate sunning to the spine mild rubbing and chipping to the spine ends edges and corners and a couple of short closed tears to the top of the front and back panels. Overall a very handsome and presentable copy of the book with a very clean and legible signature from Steinbeck with the added provenance of the original signee's name written in. An important addition to the Steinbeck library or the 20th century literature collection. Not remaindered not price clipped not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box. Covici Friede hardcover
1936ref. 000105New York: Covici Friede Publishers. DJ in archival cover. Preface by Lewis Gannett. First Covici Friede edition. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1936. Covici Friede Publishers hardcover
1936ref. 2240First Covici Friede Edition in First state dust jacket with no mention of "Of Mice and Men" with the original Covici Friede title blacked out and the $2.50 price intact on the front flap. A Near Fine book in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Also called the 2nd Edition of the book having originally been published by McBride in 1929; however this edition reportedly includes sheets from that first edition so some call this 1st Edition 2nd State; this is the author's first published novel. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the title page to a previous owner who also put his name and address discreetly underneath the front flap. This copy is in near fine condition with a square tight binding gold lettering over clean maroon boards and clean white pages with only a hint of foxing throughout; the book does show some light rubbing and sunning to the top board edges and a mild gutter exposure to the first few pages else fine. Housed in a clean and bright very good or better dust jacket that shows some moderate sunning to the spine mild rubbing and chipping to the spine ends edges and corners and a couple of short closed tears to the top of the front and back panels. Overall a very handsome and presentable copy of the book with a very clean and legible signature from Steinbeck with the added provenance of the original signee's name written in. An important addition to the Steinbeck library or the 20th century literature collection. Not remaindered not price clipped not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box. Covici Friede hardcover books
1939ref. 20392ENew York: Viking 1939. First Edition First Issue. Very good plus to near fine copy in a bright dust jacket with the barest hint of edge wear and a few minor mends by an expert paper conservationist. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An American literary landmark and the basis of the acclaimed film starring Henry Fonda directed by John Ford. Viking unknown
1957ref. 145514New York: The Viking Press 1957. First edition of Steinbeck's only political satire. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author to his sister on the front free endpaper "Mary avec l'aimite from John the XXII." The recipient Mary Steinbeck Dekker was the eldest sister of John Steinbeck. The warmth of this inscription reflects their close and enduring relationship throughout his life. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Pene Du Bois. From the library of Mary Steinbeck Dekker. An exceptional association. Pippin IV explores the life of Pippin Héristal an amateur astronomer in 1950s France who is suddenly proclaimed the King of France. Unknowingly appointed to give the Communists a monarchy to revolt against Pippin is chosen because he was descended from the famous king Charlemagne. Unhappy with his lack of privacy alteration of family life uncomfortable housings at the Palace of Versailles and his lack of power as a constitutional monarch the protagonist spends a portion of the novel dressing up as a commoner often riding a motorscooter to avoid the constrained life of a king. Pippin eventually receives his wish of dethronement after the people of France enact the rebellion Pippin's kingship was destined to receive. He returns to his home in Paris to find that nothing has really changed. The Viking Press hardcover
1939ref. 326769New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. 619 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth pictorial unclipped dust jacket by Elmer Hader. Near fine copy with tape repairs to the jacket corners and some rubbing along front hinge of jacket. First Edition. 619 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Classic Novel of the Great Depression. Very attractive copy of this 20th-century American highspot. The tale of the Joad family as they travel across the country from Oklahoma to California in the midst of the Great Depression is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. It is Steinbeck's masterpiece. The Grapes of Wrath won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer and was central in the awarding of Steinbeck the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Goldstone & Payne A12a The Viking Press unknown books
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
1937ref. 6746New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. First Edition First Printing. First edition first printing with "hands were pendula" on page 9 and the dot present between the 8s of page 88 8.8. Book measures approximately 5" x 7.5" with 186 numbered pages. Signed by John Steinbeck on a card which has been professionally affixed to the front endpaper. Provenance of the signature: Purchased directly by us from PBA Galleries who stated that the card was from the estate of Steinbeck's personal assistant Nancy Pearson. Custom made quarter leather slipcase and folding chemise. This book is in very good condition. Moderate surface wear to the original cloth boards. Interior pages are clean and well preserved. Original first issue dust jacket with the $2.00 price present on the front flap. The jacket is in fair condition. Heavy chipping and paper loss to the spine. Heavy sunning to the spine. Custom made quarter leather slipcase and folding chemise. "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 #O11-12. Covici Friede Publishers unknown
1936ref. 70080New York:: Covici Friede 1936. First edition; No. 52 of 99 copies signed by John Steinbeck. publisher's cloth in glassine wrapper and publisher's slipcase. A fine copy. The glassine wrapper has some chipping to edges and a dime-sized hole to the center of the spine. The slipcase printed paper label is bright. The slipcase is complete but has some wear to the top which has resulted in some narrow areas of missing paper. 8vo. Covici Friede, hardcover
1961ref. 67648New York: Viking 1961. Hardcover. Fine. First edition limited issue one of 500 copies. Fine lacking the dust jacket and printed acetate overjacket. Although not called for this copy is Inscribed by the author: "For Oliver H. Clark from John Steinbeck." Scarce thus. Viking hardcover
1933ref. 332058New York: Robert O. Ballou 1933. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Endpapers title vignette & dust wrapper design by Mahlon Blaine. 325pp. 8vo green cloth d.w. New York: Robert O. Ballou 1933. First Edition. There is some light offset on the spjne of the book from the dust wrapper; the dust wrapper has a small nick at the side of the spine. A near fine copy of his his third book. Robert O. Ballou unknown
1936ref. 69028New York: Covici Friede 1936. Full Description: STEINBECK John. In Dubious Battle. New York: Covici Friede 1936. First edition one of ninety-nine copies signed by the author of which this is number 57. Octavo 8 x 5 3/8 inches; 205 x 137 mm. 349 3 blank pp. With the signed limitation page inserted at rear. Original black cloth over grey buckram boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge dyed red. Some minor rubbing to bottom of spine. Previous owner's ink inscription dated 1940 on half-title. In the original black paper slipcase with paper spine label. Some very minor rubbing to slipcase. A bright fine copy. Goldstone & Payne A5a. HBS 69028. $6500. Covici Friede unknown books
1961ref. 67648New York: Viking 1961. Hardcover. Fine. First edition limited issue one of 500 copies. Fine lacking the dust jacket and printed acetate overjacket. Although not called for this copy is Inscribed by the author: "For Oliver H. Clark from John Steinbeck." Scarce thus. Viking hardcover books
1933ref. 332058New York: Robert O. Ballou 1933. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Endpapers title vignette & dust wrapper design by Mahlon Blaine. 325pp. 8vo green cloth d.w. New York: Robert O. Ballou 1933. First Edition. There is some light offset on the spjne of the book from the dust wrapper; the dust wrapper has a small nick at the side of the spine. A near fine copy of his his third book. Robert O. Ballou unknown books
ref. JD36997Rome Edizione Filmcritica 1953 first edition wrappers. Softcover. This paperback original with its very scarce dust jacket is among the rarest of the rare this collection stopper is perhaps the most difficult of all of Steinbeck's "A" items it includes an introduction by Giovanni Calendoli followed by a list of characters and who played them which in turn is followed by the screenplay in Italian for this 1952 film that starred Marlon Brando as Zapata Jean Peters as his wife and Anthony Quinn who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Goldstone & Payne A31 not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus. Rome, Edizione Filmcritica, 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. paperback
ref. 0818126New York: Viking Press 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In blue and red jacket over green cloth with silver titling 8vo 598pp. Illustrated with color and b/w illustrations. A wonderful copy inscribed to long-lived Irish rabble-rowser Sheila O'Leary on the half title page by Steinbeck: "For Sheila O'leary - O'leary - O'leary - For Sheila O'leary. - John Steinbeck". slight edgewear to outer jacket at tips and corners slight toning to edges and endpapers. Viking Press hardcover
1939ref. 140949185New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. vi 619 pp. Bound in publisher's oatmeal speckled cloth with brown pictorial stamping yellow topstain "Battle Hymn of the Republic" endpapers. Near Fine with bookplate to front pastedown and trivial tape ghosts to back free endpaper. In a Near Fine correct dust jacket with publisher's price $2.75 and "First Edition" statement present on front flap. Light wear and toning creasing along outer edge of front flap and tape residue to lower spine verso. Goldstone & Payne A12. A beautiful copy of the classic Great Depression novel from the library of the American naval officer and book collector Charles John Muto. Winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize and inspiration for the acclaimed 1940 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda. The Viking Press unknown
1935ref. TO-2026-016Covici Friede 1935. First edition first issue. Cloth. STEINBECK John. Tortilla Flat. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. New York: Covici-Friede 1935. Octavo. 317 pp. Illustrated throughout by Ruth Gannett. Original oatmeal cloth lettered in blue top edge stained blue; in the first-issue dust jacket. First-issue points present: the Van Rees Press credit at the foot of the copyright page with no later-printing indication; and — the point most often missing — Steinbeck's biography on the rear jacket flap which later printings replaced with blurbs. Front-flap price $2.50 unclipped. Goldstone & Payne A4b the trade edition one of 4000 copies. Housed in a custom clamshell box with gilt lettering to a white leather spine. Fine in a very good-plus dust jacket; some fading to the spine two short tape reinforcements to the verso two small chips and a short closed tear at the lower front edge. The book that made Steinbeck. Three earlier books had passed largely unnoticed; this one — a loose comic chronicle of the paisanos of Monterey framed as a sly retelling of Arthurian legend with Danny and his friends as the knights — became his first real critical and commercial success. The trade edition ran 4000 copies and far fewer survive in their original first-issue jackets. A fine copy in a strong first-issue jacket — with Steinbeck's biography intact on the rear flap — housed in a custom clamshell box is the form in which collectors want this book. SKU TO-2026-016 Covici Friede hardcover
1935ref. east 100COVICI FRIEDE 1935. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. FIRST. A GOOD FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE IN FIRST ISSUE DJ. SUNNED SPINE INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR JOHN STEINBECK TO CALIFORNIA ARTIST ISBELLE WEST. PRICE ON DJ also inscribed by West. COVICI FRIEDE Hardcover
1939ref. 140949185New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. vi 619 pp. Bound in publisher's oatmeal speckled cloth with brown pictorial stamping yellow topstain "Battle Hymn of the Republic" endpapers. Near Fine with bookplate to front pastedown and trivial tape ghosts to back free endpaper. In a Near Fine correct dust jacket with publisher's price $2.75 and "First Edition" statement present on front flap. Light wear and toning creasing along outer edge of front flap and tape residue to lower spine verso. Goldstone & Payne A12. A beautiful copy of the classic Great Depression novel from the library of the American naval officer and book collector Charles John Muto. Winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize and inspiration for the acclaimed 1940 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda. The Viking Press unknown books
ref. STGOBA33New York: Robert O. Ballou 1933 First edition. First printing. An all but fine copy with some sunning to the cloth along the spine. A small booksellers ticket to the rear pastedown but the contents flawless. pp. 8-9 slightly attached from the publisher's glue at the hinge - a defect inherent at printing. In a near fine dust jacket. The jacket spine with toned lettering and a tiny nick at the base. Some foxing to the rear panel and and the verso. Bright and vivid still and wholly unrestored. A beautiful example of Steinbeck's third novel his most challenging and time consuming to complete. It explores faith and the relationship between man and his land themes that Steinbeck would build upon in later works. Quite scarce with only 598 copies initially bound for sale and few surviving in such beautiful condition. hardcover
1937ref. 311034Covici Friede 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition second issue. Ex-Heritage Sale No. 6294 Lot 42042 at which the price realized was $8125. Binding tight and square bookplate removed from the front pastedown shallow light stain at the bottom of the rear board. The dustjacket is price-clipped somewhat darkened overall very shallow chipping at the spine ends a couple very short closed tears. Generic inscription and Steinbeck signature on the ffep. In a custom 1/4 morocco and marbled paper solander box unfortunately with the date of 1939 rather than 1937. Covici Friede hardcover
1939ref. 005837Viking Press. Publishers original cloth. Stated first published in April 1939. Price of $2.75 on dust jacket present. Four edges of dust jacket clipped with minimal edge wear otherwise fine. DJ in archival cover. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1939. Viking Press hardcover
1939ref. 160735New York: Viking Press 1939. First Edition. First Edition. First issue dust jacket with first edition statement at the bottom front jacket flap. Wraparound jacket art by Elmer Hader whose work graced four Steinbeck titles. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece literature's lasting testament to the Great Depression singled-out in his citation for the Nobel Prize decades later. Basis for the 1940 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Ford and supporting actress Jane Darwell won Academy Awards for their work. Near Fine in a bright Near Fine dust jacket. Small tap on the top edge of the rear board. Jacket is lightly toned along the top edges of the flaps and spine with a touch of rubbing on the flap folds and two tiny chips on the crown. An attractive copy. Ahearn APG 014d. Viking Press unknown
1940ref. 2422First Chilean Edition; Presentation Copy. A Good to Very Good Softcover Edition with Original Pictorial Wrappers. SIGNED and Inscribed from Steinbeck to Natalya Lovejoy wife of Ritchie Lovejoy and a close friend who was part of Steinbeck's Monterrey circle. Inscription reads "Para Natalya / con todo santas / Su seguro ser midos / John / who loves you." A unique presentation copy of this classic of American Literature; a one of a kind item. This copy is in good to very good condition showing some creasing to the edges and folds of the wrappers some sunning and creasing to the spine some toning to the pages and moderate foxing to the inside covers; housed in a beautiful custom cloth-covered slipcase with a gilt lettered morocco title piece. An excellent and important addition to any Steinbeck or American Literature collection. Will be carefully wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box. Zig Zag paperback
