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Best.-Nr. 06583New York: Covici Friede 1937. Steinbeck on Stage - The Dramatic Form of Of Mice and Men First Edition of the 1937 Play STEINBECK John. Of Mice and Men. A Play in Three Acts. New York: Covici Friede 1937. First edition. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm. 2 1-10 11-172 pp. Title-page printed in blue and black. Publisher's original gray linen over boards front cover and spine decorated in red and lettered in black. Some light glue staining to paste-downs as usual. In the original dust jacket printed in blue and gray spine somewhat darkened with wear to extremities. A very good copy in a fair dust jacket. With a striking Art Deco pictorial bookplate of William Rankin on the front free endpaper signed "Artemis" in the plate - a finely executed early twentieth-century design featuring stylized allegorical female figures. Issued in the same year as the novel this dramatic adaptation of Of Mice and Men represents Steinbeck's own reworking of his most enduring early work for the stage. The play opened on Broadway in November 1937 and was an immediate success winning the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. As such this edition occupies a unique place in the Steinbeck canon - bridging fiction and theater at the moment of the author's ascent to major literary prominence. Goldstone & Payne A8a. New York: Covici Friede, 1937 unknown
Best.-Nr. 06576New York: The Viking Press 1958. Steinbeck as War Correspondent Dispatches from the Front - Human Immediate and Unvarnished STEINBECK John. Once There Was a War. New York: The Viking Press 1958. First edition first issue. Octavo 8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 213 x 143 mm. xxii 1-2 3-233 1 blank pp. Publisher's quarter yellow linen over brown boards spine lettered in red. Original color pictorial dust jacket with just the slightest rubbing at the foot of the spine. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. A compelling collection of Steinbeck's World War II dispatches originally written for the New York Herald Tribune during his time as a war correspondent in 1943. Eschewing conventional battlefield reportage Steinbeck focuses instead on the daily lives of soldiers - capturing moments of boredom humor fear and quiet endurance with remarkable immediacy and empathy. These pieces drawn from Steinbeck's experiences in England North Africa and Italy reveal a deeply human perspective on war emphasizing the individuality of the common soldier rather than the abstractions of strategy or politics. The result is a work of enduring power - part journalism part literature - standing alongside the finest war writing of the twentieth century. Goldstone & Payne A39a. New York: The Viking Press, 1958 unknown
1951Best.-Nr. 001735New York: Viking 1951. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition. 8vo. 282 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt titles. Mapped endpapers. "Being the narrative portion of Sea of Cortez the report of the Steinbeck-Ricketts expedition in the Gulf of California." This edition includes the first appearance of "About Ed Ricketts." Light foxing to endpapers top edge a little dusty. Price-clipped jacket has small stains to the flaps and one to the rear panel at the flap fold. In addition there is a strip of discoloration/fading across the word "Log" on the spine due to an old jacket protector. Still better than very good. Ref: Goldstone & Payne. Viking hardcover
Best.-Nr. 06580New York: The Viking Press 1950. Experiment in Form - Play and Novel Intertwined A Dramatic Steinbeck Unusual and Underappreciated STEINBECK John. Burning Bright. A Play in Story Form. New York: The Viking Press 1950. First edition. Octavo 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 187 x 121 mm. 1-8 9-159 1 blank pp. Publisher's gray cloth front cover and spine lettered in red top edge stained red. Original color printed dust jacket spine faded with the lightest rubbing to extremities. A fine copy in an excellent dust jacket. An intriguing hybrid work in which Steinbeck deliberately blurs the boundaries between drama and prose fiction. Conceived for both stage and page Burning Bright presents a symbolic almost mythic narrative centered on themes of masculinity identity and the desire for legacy. Though less commercially successful than his major novels the work represents a bold formal experiment reflecting Steinbeck's continued willingness to challenge conventional narrative structures. Goldstone & Payne A27a. New York: The Viking Press, 1950 unknown books
1945Best.-Nr. 4091New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 7 3/8" x 4 3/4" First Issue January 1945 ADVANCE REVIEW COPY 208pp. 1pp. list of Steinbeck's other works. Bound in blue paper wraps lettered in black; A very good to fine copy and scarce in nice condition. The Viking Press paperback books
Best.-Nr. 06583New York: Covici Friede 1937. Steinbeck on Stage - The Dramatic Form of Of Mice and Men First Edition of the 1937 Play STEINBECK John. Of Mice and Men. A Play in Three Acts. New York: Covici Friede 1937. First edition. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm. 2 1-10 11-172 pp. Title-page printed in blue and black. Publisher's original gray linen over boards front cover and spine decorated in red and lettered in black. Some light glue staining to paste-downs as usual. In the original dust jacket printed in blue and gray spine somewhat darkened with wear to extremities. A very good copy in a fair dust jacket. With a striking Art Deco pictorial bookplate of William Rankin on the front free endpaper signed "Artemis" in the plate - a finely executed early twentieth-century design featuring stylized allegorical female figures. Issued in the same year as the novel this dramatic adaptation of Of Mice and Men represents Steinbeck's own reworking of his most enduring early work for the stage. The play opened on Broadway in November 1937 and was an immediate success winning the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. As such this edition occupies a unique place in the Steinbeck canon - bridging fiction and theater at the moment of the author's ascent to major literary prominence. Goldstone & Payne A8a. New York: Covici Friede, 1937 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 06576New York: The Viking Press 1958. Steinbeck as War Correspondent Dispatches from the Front - Human Immediate and Unvarnished STEINBECK John. Once There Was a War. New York: The Viking Press 1958. First edition first issue. Octavo 8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 213 x 143 mm. xxii 1-2 3-233 1 blank pp. Publisher's quarter yellow linen over brown boards spine lettered in red. Original color pictorial dust jacket with just the slightest rubbing at the foot of the spine. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. A compelling collection of Steinbeck's World War II dispatches originally written for the New York Herald Tribune during his time as a war correspondent in 1943. Eschewing conventional battlefield reportage Steinbeck focuses instead on the daily lives of soldiers - capturing moments of boredom humor fear and quiet endurance with remarkable immediacy and empathy. These pieces drawn from Steinbeck's experiences in England North Africa and Italy reveal a deeply human perspective on war emphasizing the individuality of the common soldier rather than the abstractions of strategy or politics. The result is a work of enduring power - part journalism part literature - standing alongside the finest war writing of the twentieth century. Goldstone & Payne A39a. New York: The Viking Press, 1958 unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 1387Budapest: Uj Idök Irodalmi Intézet Rt. Singer és Wolfner kiadása 1947. Second Hungarian edition. In publisher’s half cloth with illustrated front panel. With the illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly chipped small tears at foldings restored at head of the spine otherwise in very good condition. Pages yellowed due to acidic paper apart from that the book is fine condition. With 18 full page illustrations by Lajos Szalay. With 18 full page illustrations by Lajos Szalay. Second Hungarian edition. In publisher’s half cloth with illustrated front panel. With the illustrated dust jacket. 213 3 p. Illustrated Hungarian edition of John Steinbeck’s 1937 novella Of Mice and Man with the scarce illustrated dust jacket. Uj Idök Irodalmi Intézet Rt. (Singer és Wolfner) kiadása unknown
1942Best.-Nr. 109160New York: Viking 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. All four corners clipped. Wear to spine ends and to edges of jacket.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. Viking hardcover
Best.-Nr. DADAX0670725080Viking Drill & Tool 1962-07-27. hardcover. New. 2.00x10.00x7.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Viking Drill & Tool hardcover
1942Best.-Nr. 43315New York: Viking Press 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good price clipped dust jacket. All four corners of flaps are clipped. Owner bookplate to FEP. Several chips and tears to jacket. First Published March 1942 as stated. Second issue lacking dot between "talk" and "this" on page112.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Viking Press hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. DADAX1557782253Brand: Paragon House 1989-01-01. Reprint. paperback. New. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Paragon House paperback
1942Best.-Nr. 131281New York: Viking 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Few small open tears throughout. Light chipping at spine crown/heel. Viking hardcover
1942Best.-Nr. 131739New York: Viking 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped. Tape at spine crown. Light shelf wear on front panel. Light rubbing along panel edges. Viking hardcover
1942Best.-Nr. 167239New York: Viking Press 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped. Light rubbing along panel edges. Viking Press hardcover
19418vo., First Edition thus; handsomely bound in full dark brown crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, cloth from original front board and backstrip mounted on new and separate leaves at front, ribbon marker, in custom-made-slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Published two years after the first edition.
1945Best.-Nr. 172832New York: Viking Press 1945. First Edition. First Edition. Second issue with canary yellow cloth. One of the author's best-loved works a nostalgic view of the residents of Monterey CA set during the Great Depression. About Fine with a bright navy topstain in a Near Fine lightly toned dust jacket. Viking Press unknown
1945Best.-Nr. 172832New York: Viking Press 1945. First Edition. First Edition. Second issue with canary yellow cloth. One of the author's best-loved works a nostalgic view of the residents of Monterey CA set during the Great Depression. About Fine with a bright navy topstain in a Near Fine lightly toned dust jacket. Viking Press unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 024003New York: The Viking Press 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo. First issue with a period between talk" and "this" on page 112 line 11. There is no printer's imprint on the copyright page. The story begins by surprise a small European coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The town is important because it is a port that serves a large coal mine. The captain of the army told the men to mine or their families will not eat. Europe was at war and Steinbeck was particularly disturbed by all the Nazi propaganda. This book was his perspective of propaganda without ever mentioning the country in which it is set or the name of the invading or occupying country. His book was copied and translated into other languages by other countries to pass out to the people. People even made their own copies and passed them around to friends and smuggled into occupied Europe. Evidently if you were caught with this book it was a death sentence. Bound in blue cloth lettered and decorated in blind spine lettered and ruled in silver near fine in very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket rubbed along joints and folds light wear to spine ends. The Viking Press unknown
Best.-Nr. JD36933San Francisco Simon J. Lubin Society of California May 1938 second printing wrappers. Softcover. Sold originally at 25 cents is one of the most elusive of Steinbeck's books with the famous front cover photo by Dorthea Lange of a migrant mother breast feeding her child the book was a precursor to Steinbeck's publishing his masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath Goldstone & Payne A10b Morrow 87 Steinbeck's epilogue was written especially for this publication the majority of the book had appeared previously in newspaper articles introduction by John D. Barry San Francisco News columnist. Nearly fine. San Francisco, Simon J. Lubin Society of California, May 1938, second printing, wrappers. Softcover. paperback
1938Best.-Nr. 5250Viking 1938. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. A First Edition of this Steinbeck classic in the original dustjacket. With "first published in September 1938" on the copyright page. The book is square and solid with an attractive red topstain on the top edges bound in cream buckram with burn orange cloth covers. With 303 pages the book shows overall darkening on the covers edges and endpapers but the interior is quite clean. The endpapers show the aging of the glue used during publication and a previous owner's name. The dustjacket is complete with the original price $2.50 and a small sales sticker with the same price from the D.W. Robinson Co. in Los Angeles. Overall the dustjacket shows wear and darkening with a split between the spine and back panel held together with what a previous owner claims is acid-free tape. We have added an archival plastic dustjacket which protects the integrity of the fragile but original dustjacket. Overall an important book in the original cloth that shows its age and poor quality of publishing materials but still a special copy. Only 8000 copies of this book were printed. Even from the start of his writing career Steinbeck viewed the Salinas Valley not just as a setting but as a central character in his works. In a 1933 letter to George Albee Steinbeck wrote:“I think that I would like to write the story of this whole valley of all the little towns and all the farms and the ranches in the wilder hills. I can see how I would like to do it so that it would be the valley of the world” Letters p. 73. Steinbeck’s deep attachment to the Monterey County landscape informed the symbolic setting in all the short stories collected in “The Long Valley” 1938. Published between “Of Mice and Men” 1937 and “The Grapes of Wrath” 1939 the collected stories in “The Long Valley” help trace Steinbeck’s developing themes that later became the backdrop for “The Grapes of Wrath” the novel which ultimately won him universal acclaim and transformed Salinas Valley into “Steinbeck Country.” Given their thematic kinship we’ve found that it’s not uncommon for collectors to pair first editions of “The Grapes of Wrath” and “The Long Valley” considering them companion pieces in their libraries. Steinbeck’s letters about his spiritual connection to this region are worth reading. In another 1933 letter this time to his publisher Steinbeck underscores his almost spiritual connection to the region: “My country is different from the rest of the world. It seems to be one of those pregnant places from which come wonders… I was born into it and my father was. Our bodies came from this soil… our bones came from the limestone of our own mountains and our blood is distilled from the juices of this earth. I tell you now that my country a hundred miles long and about fifty wide is unique in the world.” Steinbeck’s reverence for this landscape continues today through the work of the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas which holds regular community events and exhibitions exploring the terrain that shaped his literary imagination. Steinbeck’s letters about the landscape of his childhood are accessible through the Center for Steinbeck Studies which also supports literary scholarship and hosts the International Steinbeck Conference. The Center’s 2026 call for literary and scholarly papers titled Steinbeck in Times of Crisis continues to explore the relevance of his environmental and social vision. Steinbeck’s attention to character depth can be traced back to his formative studies at Stanford where he studied short fiction under Edith Mirrielees. Viking unknown
1933Best.-Nr. 222438New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1933. First Edition Second Issue . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover; 8vo; 325 pages. Beige cloth hardcovers with green titles on spine. Bumped corners. Some board exposed at bottom corner of back board. Tops dyed green but fading. Other edges deckled. The pages off-white but still bright and clean. With a advertising pamphlet laid in front. In a green and white jacket heavily yellowed. Bumped/edges of spine. NPC $2.50 on flap. VG/VG Covici Friede Publishers hardcover
1940Best.-Nr. 014922Stanford Overlook Press 1940. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy in the Original Very Good Glassine Scarce In Any Condition. Excellent Fresh Copy. . Stanford Overlook Press Hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 018367The Viking Press 1939. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 4th Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine copy In Like Jacket. Fourth Edition Stated Jacket Also Fine Stated Fourth Printing.Very Rare condition For The Author's Masterpeice. Book Plate Under front Flap.Gorgeous Fresh Condition. The Viking Press Hardcover
1962Best.-Nr. 017353Heinemann 1962. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket. First Edition.21s on Lower Flap. Gorgeous Fresh Copy In The Orange Jacket Without Fading. Rare In This Condition. Beautiful Copy Of This Great Classic. Heinemann Hardcover
