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Best.-Nr. 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
1936Best.-Nr. 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
1936Best.-Nr. 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
1937Best.-Nr. 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
1954Best.-Nr. 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
1947Best.-Nr. 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
1976Best.-Nr. 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
1939Best.-Nr. 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
1942Best.-Nr. 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
1949Best.-Nr. 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
1947Best.-Nr. 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
1947Best.-Nr. 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
1947Best.-Nr. 52651New York:: Grosset & Dunlap 1947. Movie edition with band promoting the film starring Joan Collins and Jayne Mansfield. publisher's cloth in dust jacket with wraparound band. A fine copy. The jacket and band are very near fine. . 8vo. Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
1935Best.-Nr. 1227New York: Covici Friede 1935. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Second Issue. Goldstone & Payne A3b. Issued in an edition of 900 copies. Book has never been read. Pages uncut. Very slight age toning to book spine. Dust jacket has very light chipping to top of spine. A very presentable copy. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. Covici Friede Hardcover
1962Best.-Nr. 8072New York: The Viking Press 1962. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Publisher's white cloth. Ink ownership inscription dated 1962 to verso of upper free endpaper. Orange topstain slightly faded. Dust jacket with the spine toned and a bit of chipping at crown. Steinbeck's popular account of his journey across the United States taken with his dog Charley. Steinbeck took the trip in 1960 driving in a trailer he called "Rocinante" named after Don Quixote's broken down horse beginning in New York and travelling close to 10000 miles across the nation ending up back where he began. The book was an immediate success reaching the top of the on the New York Times Bestseller List when it was released. "He set out with some misgiving not sure his health would stand up to the 10000-mile journey he envisioned; as he traveled the years sloughed off him and the eager sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed" Edward Weeks contemporary review in the Atlantic Monthly. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. The Viking Press unknown
1991Best.-Nr. 204593Covelo California: The Yolla Bolly Press 1991. Hardcover. This is a fine bright copy with just a hint of fading to the otherwise fine slipcase. Photographs available upon request. First edition in play form limited edition of 257 copies of which this is number 257 signed by the illustrator. Size: 8.5"x12.5". Original binding of handmade Japanese paper coverd boards with maroon buckram spine and corners bottom edge deckled 168pp. 18 woodcut illustrations housed in a matching maroon buckram covered slipcase with decorative paper spine label. The Yolla Bolly Press hardcover
1945Best.-Nr. 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 books
1969Best.-Nr. 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 books
Best.-Nr. 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 books
1936Best.-Nr. 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 books
1947Best.-Nr. 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 books
1976Best.-Nr. 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 books
1939Best.-Nr. 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 books
1949Best.-Nr. 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 books
1962Best.-Nr. 8072New York: The Viking Press 1962. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Publisher's white cloth. Ink ownership inscription dated 1962 to verso of upper free endpaper. Orange topstain slightly faded. Dust jacket with the spine toned and a bit of chipping at crown. Steinbeck's popular account of his journey across the United States taken with his dog Charley. Steinbeck took the trip in 1960 driving in a trailer he called "Rocinante" named after Don Quixote's broken down horse beginning in New York and travelling close to 10000 miles across the nation ending up back where he began. The book was an immediate success reaching the top of the on the New York Times Bestseller List when it was released. "He set out with some misgiving not sure his health would stand up to the 10000-mile journey he envisioned; as he traveled the years sloughed off him and the eager sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed" Edward Weeks contemporary review in the Atlantic Monthly. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. The Viking Press unknown books
