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Best.-Nr. 06573New York: The Viking Press 1938. Steinbeck's Salinas Stories - A Cornerstone Collection First Edition in Exceptional Condition STEINBECK John. The Long Valley. New York: The Viking Press 1938. First edition. Octavo 8 x 5 inches; 203 x 127 mm. 1-8 9-303 1 blank pp. Publisher's quarter light tan buckram over orange cloth boards spine lettered in red top edge stained red. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A superb copy of The Long Valley an important early collection by John Steinbeck that brings together some of his finest short fiction much of it set in the Salinas Valley of California. The volume includes such notable stories as The Chrysanthemums The White Quail and The Red Pony in episodic form each reflecting Steinbeck's deep engagement with landscape isolation and the emotional lives of ordinary people. Published just one year before The Grapes of Wrath this collection marks a crucial moment in Steinbeck's development demonstrating his growing command of narrative form and thematic depth. The stories reveal in concentrated form many of the concerns that would define his major novels - loneliness the fragility of dreams and the tension between human aspiration and environmental constraint. The first edition is increasingly difficult to obtain in such fresh condition particularly with the dust jacket intact and unrestored. A cornerstone Steinbeck title here preserved in an unusually fine state-an essential addition to any serious collection of twentieth-century American literature. Goldstone & Payne A11a. New York: The Viking Press, 1938 unknown books
1936Best.-Nr. 541005New York: Covici Friede 1936. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. Quarter cloth titled in red and with decorative paper-covered boards as issued. Slight wear at the extremities of the fragile papercovered boards although considerably less than usually encountered a near fine copy. Copy number 72 of 199 numbered copies Signed by the author. Covici Friede hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 352819New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. 619 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cream pictorial cloth. In original "First Edition" dustjacket faded on spine closed tear to front panel of jacket at bottom. First Edition. 619 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Classic Novel of the Great Depression. 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
1962Best.-Nr. 140941317New York: The Viking Press 1962. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. An advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Bound in original coarse off-white cloth stamped in black and brown. Fine with faint foxing to cloth in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning and light staining to spine light shelf wear and a light crease down the front panel. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a road trip around America in 1960 with his traveling companion a standard poodle named Charley. The Viking Press unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 140945632New York: The Viking Press 1941. First edition. First edition first printing. x 598 pp. Bound in publisher's teal cloth stamped in silver. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight sunning and dimple to spine panel; two tiny closed tears to bottom of front panel one of which is repaired with tape on verso. An attractive copy. The Viking Press unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 49553New York: The Viking Press 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 159. Light brown cloth with red lettered front board and spine. In poor/good condition only but with excellent provenance. The book water damaged boards a little bumpy and a small water spot visible to rear board corner no water stains visible but the text-block is wavy so there is water damage but nothing nasty nor is there any mold or damp stains. This copy came in without a dust jacket one is supplied here from another copy not price clipped with a few little nicks and creases. Inscribed by Steinbeck to Eleanor Roosevelt her copy with her bookplate and initials in ink to the spine foot. The Viking Press hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. ST17837New York: The Viking Press 1939. FIRST EDITION First Printing with the words "First Published in April 1939" printed on the copyright page. 202 x 130 mm. 7 7/8 x 5 1/4". 3 p.l. 619 pp. Attractive red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Asprey stamp-signed in gilt on front and rear turn-ins covers with single gilt rule raised bands gilt ruled compartments gilt lettering all edges gilt. Goldstone-Payne A12.a. Small unobtrusive stains at spine tail half title and one text leaf each with a tiny repair along top edge a half dozen insignificant marginal stains but an extremely appealing copy showing only the most negligible signs of use. Published when America was still deep in the Great Depression "The Grapes of Wrath" is a novel detailing the heartbreak of rural dispossession and a work that in the words of ANB "captured the decade's angst as well as the nation's legacy of fierce individualism visionary prosperity and determined westward movement." In citing it as one of the "Books that Shaped America" the Library of Congress noted "Few novels can claim that their message led to actual legislation but 'The Grapes of Wrath' did just that. Its story of the travails of Oklahoma migrants . . . ignited a movement in Congress to pass laws benefiting farmworkers. When Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962 the committee specifically cited this novel as one of the main reasons for the award." The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and was printed in a large press run making it readily available at the time and ever since. The present volume attractively bound in full morocco is an affordable alternative to copies of the first edition in the original binding and dust jacket which sell for prices many times the one we're asking here. The Viking Press unknown
1939Best.-Nr. ST17837New York: The Viking Press 1939. FIRST EDITION First Printing with the words "First Published in April 1939" printed on the copyright page. 202 x 130 mm. 7 7/8 x 5 1/4". 3 p.l. 619 pp. Attractive red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Asprey stamp-signed in gilt on front and rear turn-ins covers with single gilt rule raised bands gilt ruled compartments gilt lettering all edges gilt. Goldstone-Payne A12.a. Small unobtrusive stains at spine tail half title and one text leaf each with a tiny repair along top edge a half dozen insignificant marginal stains but an extremely appealing copy showing only the most negligible signs of use. Published when America was still deep in the Great Depression "The Grapes of Wrath" is a novel detailing the heartbreak of rural dispossession and a work that in the words of ANB "captured the decade's angst as well as the nation's legacy of fierce individualism visionary prosperity and determined westward movement." In citing it as one of the "Books that Shaped America" the Library of Congress noted "Few novels can claim that their message led to actual legislation but 'The Grapes of Wrath' did just that. Its story of the travails of Oklahoma migrants . . . ignited a movement in Congress to pass laws benefiting farmworkers. When Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962 the committee specifically cited this novel as one of the main reasons for the award." The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and was printed in a large press run making it readily available at the time and ever since. The present volume attractively bound in full morocco is an affordable alternative to copies of the first edition in the original binding and dust jacket which sell for prices many times the one we're asking here. The Viking Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. 30713London: William Heinemann. 1936. First UK edition first printing. First UK edition first printing. Publisher's original dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine in the Youngman Carter illustrated dustwrapper. A very near fine copy the binding square and firm the cloth bright and fresh. The contents with a few spots to the top edge of the closed text block are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed nicked and creased dustwrapper which has a few short closed tears to the head of the spine and is otherwise bright and free from fading or loss. Not price-clipped 7/6 net to the front flap. Steinbeck's fourth novel which is set during a strike on a Californian farm. The basis for the 2016 film of the same name directed by and starring James Franco alongside Nat Wolff and Vincent D'Onofrio. Goldstone & Payne A5c. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: William Heinemann. 1936 hardcover
Best.-Nr. JD29420London Heinemann 1935 first British edition first printing dust jacket. Hardcover. This was Steinbeck's breakthrough book it is a story of the Knights of the Round Table in the guise of paisanos Goldstone & Payne A4c Morrow 31 scarce. Very good. London, Heinemann, 1935, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover
Best.-Nr. JD29420London Heinemann 1935 first British edition first printing dust jacket. Hardcover. This was Steinbeck's breakthrough book it is a story of the Knights of the Round Table in the guise of paisanos Goldstone & Payne A4c Morrow 31 scarce. Very good. London, Heinemann, 1935, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover books
1964Best.-Nr. 80128New York:: Random House 1964. First edition. publisher's lettered wrappers; preserved in a custom quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Very fine. 8vo. Goldstone A41. Signed and inscribed "For Bob Keene From John & Charley Steinbeck." The recipient was a bookseller in Southampton New York a Sag Harbor friend of Steinbeck and almost certainly an acquaintance of the late Charley his poodle companion in "Travels with Charley" 1962. Random House, unknown
1962Best.-Nr. 003151New York: The Viking Press 1962. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. First Edition First Printing. 3200 copies printed. Twelve pages. Signed by Steinbeck in blue ink on the title page. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. The Viking Press Paperback
1939Best.-Nr. 16176JNew York: Viking 1939. First Edition First Printing. With the bookplate of Albert E. Smith film pioneer and founder of Vitagraph Studios. The engraved bookplate shows the Vitagraph logo of an eagle with wings spread hovering over the earth globe which has a large letter V in the center beneath which is a shelf of books. Fine clean copy in a very good dust jacket with some restoration by an expert paper conservationist. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An American literary landmark and the basis of the acclaimed 1940 film classic starring Henry Fonda John Carradine Jane Darwell directed by John Ford. Viking unknown
1951Best.-Nr. 240624002New York: Viking 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The Log from the Sea of Cortez: The Narrative Portion of the Book "Sea of Cortez" by John Steinbeck An uncommon follow up narrative log of the journey to the Sea of Cortez and the 1941 book by Steinbeck. OVERALL CONDITION: NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE BOOK INFO Published in 1951 by Viking Press in New York. First edition first printing as indicated by "Published by The Viking Press in September 1951" statement on the copyright page with no other printings listed. In original maroon cloth covered boards with gold lettering and decoration. Publisher maroon top stain. Pictorial map of the Sea of Cortez endpapers. First state dust jacket with $4.00 price on front flap. Octavo. Well-protected in its archival mylar wrap and custom cloth clamshell case with a morocco descriptive label. CONDITION The book is in NEAR FINE vintage condition. Tight sound binding with the slightest of spine lean and a small splash of coffee on a few of the fore-edge pages else FINE. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Boards are strikingly fresh colorful and unfaded. Publisher top-stain in excellent shape. Exceptionally clean interior with bright pages and no writing stickers ex libris marks or foxing. No darkening of the endpaper gutters. A beautiful copy for an exceedingly hard to find title in high-grade collectible condition. The unclipped dust jacket is NEAR FINE - beautifully colorful and bright usually found quite darkened and toned with large chips and tears. Some very light edge wear - light creasing tiny tears and chips and a touch of dust/soiling else FINE some would say FINE. The nicest example I see for sale on the market. The included solander case is in NEAR FINE condition too. Viking hardcover
1952Best.-Nr. 28259Viking 1952. 1st Edition. HCDJ. Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition 1st printing with price-clipped dust jacket. Author pictured on back flap Page 281 line 38 "bite" instead of "bight." This sprawling and often brutal novel set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Viking unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 39023New York: Covici Friede 1937. Near fine. Signed limited first edition this the scarce "lettered" issue meant for private distribution to friends. In addition to being lettered instead of numbered this issue is printed on Marais handmade paper watermarked while the numbered copies are on La Garde paper. The limited edition originally sold for $10.00 - a large sum for the time but sold out. The story features young Jody Tiflin and his life on his father's northern California ranch. The first edition has no illustrations; an illustrated expanded edition came out in 1945. This lettered limited edition is quite scarce. 10'' x 7''. Original tan pictorial limp cloth. No glassine spine and rear edge faded mark at finger slot level corresponding with the finger hole cut out on slipcase for book removal owner bookplate tipped onto free endpaper purportedly belonging to a Covici Friede associate. Housed in the publisher's slip case with the limitation letter on the spine of the case. Slight marginal sunning to cloth. Edge of case faintly stained in two areas else tight. Covici Friede unknown
1962Best.-Nr. 122693New York: The Viking Press 1962. First edition of Steinbeck's Nobel Lecture. Octavo original wrappres. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For the Waldmanns with pleasure John Steinbeck." Presented with original mailing envelope. In near fine condition. John Steinbeck presented his Nobel Lecture on December 10 1962 and was awarded the Prize "for his realistic and imaginative writings combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception. The Viking Press unknown
1938Best.-Nr. 28277New York:: Viking Press 1938. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with the usual age darkening to the cloth binding in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with gentle wear to the extremities a tiny chip missing near the head of the spine and a glue bleed through running along the fold of the rear panel. Otherwise a respectable copy of this collection of classic Steinbeck short stories. Steinbeck signature laid in. The stories include The Chrysanthemums The White Quail Flight The Snake Breakfast The Raid The Harness The Vigilante Johnny Bear The Murder St. Katy The Virgin the Complete Red Pony The Leader of the People. There were only 8000 copies of this title published in the First Edition. Viking Press, hardcover
Best.-Nr. 06581New York: Covici Friede 1935. Steinbeck's Breakthrough - The Rare Wrappered Issue A Likely Advance Issue One of Approximately 500 Copies STEINBECK John. Tortilla Flat. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. New York: Covici Friede 1935. First edition wrappered issue of the author's first commercially successful novel. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 191 x 133 mm. i-iv v-vi vii-viii 9-316 1 3 blank pp. Publisher's original sewn pictorial wrappers printed in blue. Spine darkened with a tiny chip at the foot and a short 1 1/2 inch split at the top of the front joint. Preserved in the likely original glassine wrapper. A very good well-preserved example of this fragile and elusive issue. Chemised in a blue cloth folder and housed in a quarter dark blue morocco slipcase spine with five raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. The rare wrappered issue of Tortilla Flat produced in a small limitation - generally estimated at approximately 500 copies - at the time of first publication. Though bibliographers Goldstone and Payne note that there is no conclusive evidence that this issue precedes the standard cloth binding it has long been regarded in the trade as an advance or trial issue likely intended for early distribution review or promotional purposes. Fragile by nature and seldom encountered in presentable condition copies retaining their original glassine are particularly scarce. This issue marks the turning point in Steinbeck's career: Tortilla Flat established both his reputation and his distinctive narrative voice paving the way for In Dubious Battle 1936 and The Grapes of Wrath 1939. A desirable and increasingly difficult Steinbeck issue especially in unrestored condition. New York: Covici Friede, 1935 unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 39023New York: Covici Friede 1937. Near fine. Signed limited first edition this the scarce "lettered" issue meant for private distribution to friends. In addition to being lettered instead of numbered this issue is printed on Marais handmade paper watermarked while the numbered copies are on La Garde paper. The limited edition originally sold for $10.00 - a large sum for the time but sold out. The story features young Jody Tiflin and his life on his father's northern California ranch. The first edition has no illustrations; an illustrated expanded edition came out in 1945. This lettered limited edition is quite scarce. 10'' x 7''. Original tan pictorial limp cloth. No glassine spine and rear edge faded mark at finger slot level corresponding with the finger hole cut out on slipcase for book removal owner bookplate tipped onto free endpaper purportedly belonging to a Covici Friede associate. Housed in the publisher's slip case with the limitation letter on the spine of the case. Slight marginal sunning to cloth. Edge of case faintly stained in two areas else tight. Covici Friede unknown books
Best.-Nr. 06581New York: Covici Friede 1935. Steinbeck's Breakthrough - The Rare Wrappered Issue A Likely Advance Issue One of Approximately 500 Copies STEINBECK John. Tortilla Flat. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. New York: Covici Friede 1935. First edition wrappered issue of the author's first commercially successful novel. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 191 x 133 mm. i-iv v-vi vii-viii 9-316 1 3 blank pp. Publisher's original sewn pictorial wrappers printed in blue. Spine darkened with a tiny chip at the foot and a short 1 1/2 inch split at the top of the front joint. Preserved in the likely original glassine wrapper. A very good well-preserved example of this fragile and elusive issue. Chemised in a blue cloth folder and housed in a quarter dark blue morocco slipcase spine with five raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. The rare wrappered issue of Tortilla Flat produced in a small limitation - generally estimated at approximately 500 copies - at the time of first publication. Though bibliographers Goldstone and Payne note that there is no conclusive evidence that this issue precedes the standard cloth binding it has long been regarded in the trade as an advance or trial issue likely intended for early distribution review or promotional purposes. Fragile by nature and seldom encountered in presentable condition copies retaining their original glassine are particularly scarce. This issue marks the turning point in Steinbeck's career: Tortilla Flat established both his reputation and his distinctive narrative voice paving the way for In Dubious Battle 1936 and The Grapes of Wrath 1939. A desirable and increasingly difficult Steinbeck issue especially in unrestored condition. New York: Covici Friede, 1935 unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 191674New York: Viking Press 1939. First edition of the author's masterpiece widely regarded as the supreme literary achievement of the Depression era. The film adaptation by Darryl F. Zanuck produced the following year is similarly one of the greatest 20th-century American films. Octavo 196 x 131 mm. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco spine lettered and decorated in gilt raised bands single rule to boards gilt twin rule to turn-ins decorative endpapers gilt edges. A fine copy. hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 115598New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First edition first issue with the word "pendula" present on page 9 and the dot between the 8's on p. 88 of Steinbeck's "marvelous picture of the tragedy of loneliness" Eleanor Roosevelt. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example. John Steinbeck began Of Mice and Men as a children’s story. “Although the finished novelette does not seem appropriate for children—that intention was obviously abandoned—the simplicity of its style and the clarity and precision of its imagery may well have been prompted by this original purpose… ” Benson 326. The result is “a sophisticated and artful rendering of the basic conflict between two worlds: between an idealized landscape and the real world with its pain and anguish” Literary History of the American West. "A thriller a gripping tale . . . that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick" The New York Times. Covici-Friede hardcover
1941Best.-Nr. 28279New York:: Viking 1941. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the folds and extremities and shallow chipping to the head of the spine. Steinbeck's signed note laid in. In 1940 John Steinbeck and his friend Ed Ricketts sailed out of Monterey Bay to the Sea of Cortez. Shifting his focus from fiction to science Steinbeck wrote that his new work "must jump to include other species beside the human. This is why my interest in biology and ecology have become so sharpened." The account that Steinbeck wrote about the expedition includes Ricketts's catalogue of marine invertebrates found in Baja. Viking, unknown
