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1945ref. 150085New York: The Viking Press 1945. Signed limited first edition of Steinbeck's classic novel one of 699 copies. Octavo original cloth pictorial endpapers with illustrations by Wesley Dennis. Fine in the rare original slipcase. An exceptional example. The three interconnected stories in this volume a fourth was added in the 1945 edition won praise on publication as "pure gold… all three of these stories have more depth intensity and variety than one could possibly anticipate" New York Times Book Review. To biographer Jackson Benson they "act as a moral fulcrum… These stories with their child observer examine the nature of life and of death and the relationship of the individual to the whole" True Adventures 288. The Viking Press hardcover
1945ref. 140947526New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Illustrated Edition. Very Good. First illustrated edition. Association copy signed by John Steinbeck on the half-title page and inscribed "with many thanks" to Peter Kriendler owner of the 21 Club in New York. Bookplate of Jeanette and Peter Kriendler to front pastedown. 131 1 pp. Bound in publisher's gray-brown cloth boards stamped in slate blue gilt lettering to spine color pictorial onlay to front board. All edges stained blue color pictorial endpapers ivory laid paper. Very Good with light rubbing and toning to covers split to upper front hinge light toning and soft ripple throughout. In the original slipcase plain gray paper with color pictorial onlay lightly soiled and toned and split at upper edge. Goldstone-Payne A9.c unlisted third variant printed by Kipe Offset Process Company and bound by H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company. The 21 Club opened in Manhattan in 1930 as a speakeasy. Patrick Kriendler the brother of one of the two founders became a partner in 1938 after working at the club for most of the previous decade. Steinbeck had a favorite table there and enjoyed Kriendler's legendary customer service. One recent record of the club states that it 'featured sliding doors chutes collapsing shelves and hidden storage areas designed to hide alcohol from law-enforcement officials. Over the years the 21 Club began to attract an elite clientele from the worlds of business entertainment the arts sports and politics. The restaurant was known for its strict code of discipline no staff member was allowed to call a customer by his first name as well as its extravagant expensive menu grouse was served for lunch the day after the shooting season opened in Scotland. The Viking Press unknown
1945ref. 000356New YorkNew York: Viking Press 1945 Fine. First. edition. Beige cloth. Excellent. Color illustrations. Tall 8vo. Presentation copy inscribed and signed in full by Steinbeck. First illustrated and First Seperate Trade Edition. In pristine condition in the primary binding. Viking Press hardcover
1939ref. 22546New York: Viking Press 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated beige cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 619 pages. 21 x14 cm. With dust wrapper noting "First Edition" and noting the $2.75 price at publication. Dust wrapper designed by Elmer Hader. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Perhaps the most influential and best remembered book to come out of the Great Depression. Goldstone and Payne A12a. Decorated endpapers a musical score of the "Battle Hymn of The Republic." Nicks to backstrip head of dust wrapper with slight loss front cover of dust wrapper at lower foot slightly rubbed interior contents fresh and clean. Viking Press hardcover books
1945ref. 140947526New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Illustrated Edition. Very Good. First illustrated edition. Association copy signed by John Steinbeck on the half-title page and inscribed "with many thanks" to Peter Kriendler owner of the 21 Club in New York. Bookplate of Jeanette and Peter Kriendler to front pastedown. 131 1 pp. Bound in publisher's gray-brown cloth boards stamped in slate blue gilt lettering to spine color pictorial onlay to front board. All edges stained blue color pictorial endpapers ivory laid paper. Very Good with light rubbing and toning to covers split to upper front hinge light toning and soft ripple throughout. In the original slipcase plain gray paper with color pictorial onlay lightly soiled and toned and split at upper edge. Goldstone-Payne A9.c unlisted third variant printed by Kipe Offset Process Company and bound by H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company. The 21 Club opened in Manhattan in 1930 as a speakeasy. Patrick Kriendler the brother of one of the two founders became a partner in 1938 after working at the club for most of the previous decade. Steinbeck had a favorite table there and enjoyed Kriendler's legendary customer service. One recent record of the club states that it 'featured sliding doors chutes collapsing shelves and hidden storage areas designed to hide alcohol from law-enforcement officials. Over the years the 21 Club began to attract an elite clientele from the worlds of business entertainment the arts sports and politics. The restaurant was known for its strict code of discipline no staff member was allowed to call a customer by his first name as well as its extravagant expensive menu grouse was served for lunch the day after the shooting season opened in Scotland. The Viking Press unknown books
1939ref. 143492London: William Heinemann 1939. First English edition of the author's classic work. Octavo original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. "The Grapes of Wrath is the kind of art that’s poured out of a crucible in which are mingled pity and indignation Its power and importance do not lie in its political insight but in its intense humanity It is the American novel of the season probably the year possibly the decade" Clifton Fadiman. It is the basis for the 1940 John Ford directed film bearing the same name starring Henry Fonda. It is widely considered as one of the greatest American films of all time. In 1989 this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally historically or aesthetically significant." Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century. William Heinemann hardcover
1939ref. 017883New York: The Viking Press 1939. Nice copy of this classic in its first printing. Unmarked tight and square. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oatmeal cloth with purpleish lettering and stamping to boards is clean with sharp tips. Price intact jacket with First Edition stated on bottom of front flap has the iconic illustration by Elmer Hader. Color rich on front panel but tanned an spine with color returning on back panel. Shallow chip at bottom of rear panel. Moderate wear at front fold. Basis for the outstanding film directed by John Ford that starred Henry Fonda in his greatest role. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Viking Press Hardcover
1937ref. consign82New York: Covici Friede 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean pages tight binding clot/Illustrated dust jacket. First edition with single 1937 copyright date and both first state errors to page 9 and 88. Original dust jacket with $2.00 price.Clean pages tight binding cloth boards bright and crisp two small tears to dust jacket one at top front and the other to the lower spine sun toning to spine Covici Friede hardcover
1957ref. 7504London: William Heinemann LTD 1957. First Edition Third Printing Signed. Very Good/Very Good. Signed and inscribed by the author John Steinbeck on the front endpaper: "For Betty and Gerald Wellesley / with many thanks / this pot pourri some say de . is affectionately inscribed / John Steinbeck / 1958". Measuring approximately 7.75" x 5" with 568 numbered pages. The book is in very good condition. Boards are bumped and worn at the edges. Textblock edges have minor scratching and staining. Interior pages are clean and well preserved. 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 #Q8-7. William Heinemann LTD unknown
1935ref. 32603New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1935. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1935. First Edition one of 500 copies in printed wrappers. Octavo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers illustrated by Ruth Gannett French flaps retaining original price $2.50; viii9-317pp.; illus. throughout. Rubbing to edges with a few minor nicks and creases; spine sunned but still retaining some color; 2" split at base of upper spine edge. Binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good well-preserved copy of an important Steinbeck title following Danny and his knights of the round table as they drink sing and brawl their way through the worst years of the Depression around Monterrey California. Adorned with atmospheric illustrations by Ruth Gannett the genius author-illustrator of the children's series My Father's Dragon 1948. Goldstone & Payne A4a. Covici Friede Publishers unknown
1962ref. 7351New York: The Viking Press 1962. First Edition First Printing. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing - with "Published in 1962 by The Viking Press Inc." stated on the copyright page. Signed by the author John Steinbeck on a card which has been professionally affixed to the half-title page. 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. Measuring approximately 9" x 6" with 246 numbered pages. The book is in near fine condition. Tiny stain visible at the bottom of the front board. Interior pages are clean and very well preserved. The original dust jacket is also in near fine condition. Minor surface wear and staining to the panels. Original $4.95 price is present on the front flap. 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 #P12-9. The Viking Press unknown
1935ref. 32603New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1935. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1935. First Edition one of 500 copies in printed wrappers. Octavo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers illustrated by Ruth Gannett French flaps retaining original price $2.50; viii9-317pp.; illus. throughout. Rubbing to edges with a few minor nicks and creases; spine sunned but still retaining some color; 2" split at base of upper spine edge. Binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good well-preserved copy of an important Steinbeck title following Danny and his knights of the round table as they drink sing and brawl their way through the worst years of the Depression around Monterrey California. Adorned with atmospheric illustrations by Ruth Gannett the genius author-illustrator of the children's series My Father's Dragon 1948. Goldstone & Payne A4a. Covici Friede Publishers unknown books
1938ref. 005755The Viking Press. DJ in archival cover corner chips small tear edge ware. $2.50 price on flap. Stated first published in September 1938. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1938. The Viking Press hardcover
1952ref. 151256New York: The Viking Press 1952. First edition first printing of Steinbeck's epic and moving story of a modern Cain and Abel. Octavo original lime green cloth. First issue with the word "bite" present on page 281 line 38. Fine in a near fine first issue price-clipped dust jacket with the portrait of Steinbeck. An exceptional example. "A novel planned on the grandest possible scale.One of those occasions when a writer has aimed high and then summoned every ounce of energy talent seriousness and passion of which he was capable.It is an entirely interesting and impressive book" The New York Herald Tribune. The Viking Press hardcover
1937ref. 69031New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. Full Description: STEINBECK John. The Red Pony. New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. First edition one of 699 copies signed by John Steinbeck this being number 629. Large octavo 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 251 x 175 mm. 81 1 limitation page pp. Printed on handmade paper by the Pynson Printers New York under the supervision of Elmer Adler. Vignette of a pony in orange and gray on title-page. Original full beige cloth stamped in gray and orange. Vignette of a pony in ornage repeated from the title-page on front cover with date in orange roman numerals below. Spine lettered in yellow. Bottom and fore-edge uncut. With previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Cloth lightly foxed as usual. Still a near fine copy. Housed in publisher's original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label. Label with matching limitation number 629 om spine. Some minor splitting to bottom of case. Still about fine. This story containing three episodes I. The Gift II. The Great Mountains III. The Promise in the life of farm boy Jody Tiflin of the Salinas valley. The story centers on how Jody matures after the loss of his beloved red pony. Goldstone & Payne A9a. HBS 69031. $3000. Covici Friede Publishers unknown
1936ref. 140942999New York: Covici Friede 1936. First Edition. First edition. Copy #78 of 199 hand-numbered copies signed by John Steinbeck on the rear colophon. Bound in original decorated boards with brown cloth spine lettered in red. About Very Good with rubbing to the fragile boards light foxing to endpapers but spine lettering strong. In a Fair example of the unprinted wrapper chipped and shrunken. Lacking ad slip. One of the most uncommon Steinbeck items offered by his publishers as a Christmas gift. Covici Friede unknown
1939ref. 15687New York: Viking 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very good. Classic novel of the depression era. Statement on copyright page "First published in April 1939" and no additional printings. Book is near fine clean and straight but has a small light blue stain on top board edge. Wrap-around bright pictorial dust jacket has some rubs tiny chips at corners & fold and a four-inch tear at front fold. $2.75 price at top of flap and the statement "First Edition" at bottom of flap. Housed in blue linen-covered two-piece slipcase with red label. Outer case has some rubbing at bottom and corners. Cloth on inner fold-around case has wear. Archival mylar cover over the dust jacket. Not available for international shipping. Viking hardcover
1939ref. 73775New York:: The Viking Press 1939. First edition. publisher's illustrated cloth in the correct dust jacket with "First Edition" at the bottom of the front flap. . Usual browning to the inner hinges from binder's adhesive; else fine in an unchipped dust jacket which is browned at the backstrip. 8vo. The Viking Press, hardcover
1939ref. 71387New York:: The Viking Press 1939. First edition. publisher's illustrated cloth in dust jacket. Small ding to the top of the front board; slightly cocked; with a small ink signature to the upper left corner of the front pastedown. The endsheets have a little discoloration from damp. The dust jacket has the price and "First Edition" intact; the backstrip is a little tanned; and there is some minor edgewear. . 8vo. Laid in is a contemporary promotional pamphlet for this book. The Viking Press, hardcover
1942ref. 152450London: William Heinemann Ltd 1942. First Australian edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo original orange cloth. Boldly signed by John Steinbeck on the half-title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and toning. Bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown and bookseller's stamp to the free endpaper. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from forensic handwriting examiner Frank Garo. 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 William Heinemann Ltd hardcover
1937ref. 69031New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. Full Description: STEINBECK John. The Red Pony. New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. First edition one of 699 copies signed by John Steinbeck this being number 629. Large octavo 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 251 x 175 mm. 81 1 limitation page pp. Printed on handmade paper by the Pynson Printers New York under the supervision of Elmer Adler. Vignette of a pony in orange and gray on title-page. Original full beige cloth stamped in gray and orange. Vignette of a pony in ornage repeated from the title-page on front cover with date in orange roman numerals below. Spine lettered in yellow. Bottom and fore-edge uncut. With previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Cloth lightly foxed as usual. Still a near fine copy. Housed in publisher's original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label. Label with matching limitation number 629 om spine. Some minor splitting to bottom of case. Still about fine. This story containing three episodes I. The Gift II. The Great Mountains III. The Promise in the life of farm boy Jody Tiflin of the Salinas valley. The story centers on how Jody matures after the loss of his beloved red pony. Goldstone & Payne A9a. HBS 69031. $3000. Covici Friede Publishers unknown books
1936ref. 140942999New York: Covici Friede 1936. First Edition. First edition. Copy #78 of 199 hand-numbered copies signed by John Steinbeck on the rear colophon. Bound in original decorated boards with brown cloth spine lettered in red. About Very Good with rubbing to the fragile boards light foxing to endpapers but spine lettering strong. In a Fair example of the unprinted wrapper chipped and shrunken. Lacking ad slip. One of the most uncommon Steinbeck items offered by his publishers as a Christmas gift. Covici Friede unknown books
1941ref. 181868New York: The Viking Press 1941. Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans First edition. Steinbeck and Ricketts's account of their six-week marine collecting expedition of 1940 contains "more of the whole man John Steinbeck than any of his novels" Lewis Gannett. Steinbeck was greatly influenced by the marine biologist Ricketts 1897-1948 whose "acceptance of people as they were and of life as he found it was remarkable articulated by what he called nonteleological or 'is' thinking. Steinbeck adapted the term and the stance. His fiction examines 'what is'" ANB. The narrative section by Steinbeck includes their "philosophical musings as well as keen observations on Mexican peasantry hermit crabs and 'dryball' scientists" ANB. It is appended by Ricketts's scientific catalogue which was dropped when Steinbeck's narrative was republished as The Log From the Sea of Cortez 1951. Octavo. With 40 photographic plates of specimens of which 8 in colour. Original green cloth spine and front cover lettered in silver map endpapers top edge orange. With dust jacket. Negligible rubbing to cloth; jacket bright soiling to upper left section of rear panel rubbing to edges unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. Goldstone & Payne A15b. hardcover
1938ref. 174087New York: Viking Press 1938. First edition of the author's collection of 12 stories set in Salinas Valley California his birthplace. It features the first appearance of "Flight" as well as others which had previously appeared in magazines including "The Red Pony" "Chrysanthemum" and "The Murder". Octavo. Title page printed in red and black. Original quarter buckram spine lettered in brown orange cloth sides top edge orange. With dust jacket. Bookplate of Altess and Sanford Berenson to front pastedown. Small mark to fore edge; jacket bright and unclipped spine slightly toned extremities lightly rubbed with a couple of short closed tears: a near-fine copy in near-fine dust jacket. Goldstone and Payne A11a. hardcover
1946ref. 020854Prague: Sfinx 1946. Second Czech Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Dustwrapper designed by Jaroslav váb. Uncommon edition of this winner of the Pulitzer Prize. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Steinbeck on the last page of text located at the foot of the translator's notes in which the translator Vladimír Procházka includes an excerpt from a positive review of the translation: ".in reading this translation we forget that it's a translation. How many translations can we say that about" The inscription is under Procházka's printed name and is to him: "For Vladimir Prochazka/Thank you/John Steinbeck." Procházka a lawyer and communist was forced to withdraw from his political activities during the Nazi occupation and translated THE GRAPES OF WRATH along with works by James Joyce and Bernard Shaw. In 1946 he was elected to parliament as a communist and helped draft the new Czechoslovak constitution. Steinbeck most likely inscribed this on one of his two trips to communist Czechoslovakia or possibly in the U. S. when Procházka was serving as the Czechoslovak ambassador to the United States. Sfinx hardcover
