STEINBECK, JohnBiblio.com
STEINBECK, JohnBiblio.com
Sea of Cortez
rif. 06589New York: The Viking Press 1941. Steinbeck and Ricketts - Science Friendship and the Gulf of California First Edition of Sea of Cortez STEINBECK John. Ricketts Edward F. Sea of Cortez. A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research. New York: The Viking Press 1941. First edition first printing. Octavo 9 1/4 x 6 inches; 235 x 152 mm. x 598 pp. Forty pages of inserted plates many in color. Publisher's green linen over boards front cover and spine lettered in silver map endpapers printed in blue top edge stained orange. Neat ink names on front paste-down. In the original color printed dust jacket extremities a little rubbed with a 3/4-inch closed tear to lower front panel. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. An important and unusual work in the Steinbeck canon Sea of Cortez documents the 1940 marine expedition undertaken by Steinbeck and his close friend and collaborator Edward F. Ricketts. Blending scientific observation with philosophical reflection and travel narrative the book is as much a meditation on ecology and human interconnectedness as it is a record of biological collecting along the Gulf of California. The work is notable for its hybrid structure combining a detailed scientific catalogue with Steinbeck's narrative journal - later distilled by Steinbeck into The Log from the Sea of Cortez 1951. Copies of the original 1941 edition particularly in unrestored dust jacket are increasingly difficult to locate in collectible condition. A highly desirable Steinbeck first representing one of the most intellectually ambitious collaborations of his career. Goldstone & Payne A14a. New York: The Viking Press, 1941 unknown
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