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1939ref. 367906New York: The Viking Press 1939. First edition. 619 pp. 8vo. Tan cloth decoratively stamped in brown on cover and spine; unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear to upper rear; spine lightly sunned. First edition. 619 pp. 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. The Viking Press unknown
1929ref. 140946499New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing first issue. 269 pp. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with titles stamped in black blue topstain. Near Fine with light fading to spine modest soiling to cloth and minor wear at extremities. Moderating foxing to all edges with slight offsetting at endsheets. Minor toning and light foxing to contents. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with fading to spine short split at foot of front spine joint with light associated creasing to the bottom of the front panel. Foxing to verso. Steinbeck's scarce first novel of 17th-century historical fiction. Uncommon in the original dust jacket. Goldstone A1. Robert M. McBride & Company unknown books
1939ref. 367906New York: The Viking Press 1939. First edition. 619 pp. 8vo. Tan cloth decoratively stamped in brown on cover and spine; unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear to upper rear; spine lightly sunned. First edition. 619 pp. 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. The Viking Press unknown books
1925ref. 70003ca. 1925-1930. in the original frame. Very fine original condition. This portrait was presented by Blaine to Steinbeck and remained in his possession for the rest of his life. From the estate of Steinbeck's sister Elizabeth Ainsworth. Mahlon Blaine designed the dust jackets and endpapers of both "Cup of Gold" and "To a God Unknown." Almost certainly one of the earliest portraits of John Steinbeck. unknown
1936ref. 140947502New York: Covici-Friede 1936. First Edition Limited Issue. Fine. Limited first edition Printer's Copy B to match the numbered edition of 99 copies. Signed by John Steinbeck on the limitation page at rear. 349 pp. Bound in publisher's beige and black cloth with gilt lettering to spine red topstain. Fine with very slight lean to spine dust-soiling to upper edge of textblock. In a somewhat rubbed original black paper-covered slipcase paper title label to spine. Housed in a custom oatmeal cloth clamshell case with a gilt-lettered black morocco title label to spine. Goldstone-Payne A5.a. A very rare copy of an edition scarce to begin with. Just 99 numbered and signed copies of Steinbeck's famous strike novel were published simultaneously with the first trade edition in 1936; this copy is signed but not numbered and an ink inscription below the signature states: "Printer's Copy B." The number of lettered copies is unknown. Covici-Friede unknown
1935ref. 149596New York: Covici-Friede Publishers 1935. First edition of Steinbeck's first commercially successful book. Octavo original cloth illustrated. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For George Good with regards John Steinbeck." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Laid in is an old pamphlet of Monterey the capital of old California. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. One of the most difficult books in the Steinbeck canon to locate signed. Set in Monterey California Tortilla Flat tells the story of a small band of paisanos who resist the the corrupting tides of honest toil in favor of a life of adventure. It is the story of Danny who home from the war inherits two houses which at once become a haven for his friends and lovers not unlike the chivalric order of King Arthur and his court the Knights of the Round Table. It deals with the band's adventuring multiple loves and wonderful brawls and Gargantuan wine-drinking. "An utterly unprecedented sort of book and hard to analyze in its unique charm" Virginia Kirkus. Covici-Friede Publishers hardcover
1936ref. 140947502New York: Covici-Friede 1936. First Edition Limited Issue. Fine. Limited first edition Printer's Copy B to match the numbered edition of 99 copies. Signed by John Steinbeck on the limitation page at rear. 349 pp. Bound in publisher's beige and black cloth with gilt lettering to spine red topstain. Fine with very slight lean to spine dust-soiling to upper edge of textblock. In a somewhat rubbed original black paper-covered slipcase paper title label to spine. Housed in a custom oatmeal cloth clamshell case with a gilt-lettered black morocco title label to spine. Goldstone-Payne A5.a. A very rare copy of an edition scarce to begin with. Just 99 numbered and signed copies of Steinbeck's famous strike novel were published simultaneously with the first trade edition in 1936; this copy is signed but not numbered and an ink inscription below the signature states: "Printer's Copy B." The number of lettered copies is unknown. Covici-Friede unknown books
1932ref. 140949836New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing; one of 650 copies of the first issue. vi 294 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt black topstain. Near Fine with slight lean to spine light fading to extremities and pulled thread at upper edge of rear board. Light offsetting to endpapers several rear pages roughly cut. In a Very Good first issue unclipped dust jacket 195 mm tall with light dampstaining and rippling to spine panel moderate wear and pencil inscription to front flap. Goldstone & Payne A2a. John Steinbeck's second book was printed in a run of 2500 copies of which 1650 were bound and about 650 sold. The unsold copies bound and unbound were sold to the publisher Robert O. Ballou and rebound for the second third and fourth issues. Steinbeck would not see commercial success until the publication of his fifth book Tortilla Flat but The Pastures of Heaven received good reviews that heralded his future accolades. "Californians should take notice of this novel by one of its native sons" wrote The Los Angeles Times and Californians certainly did. Brewer, Warren & Putnam unknown
1932ref. 140949836New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing; one of 650 copies of the first issue. vi 294 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt black topstain. Near Fine with slight lean to spine light fading to extremities and pulled thread at upper edge of rear board. Light offsetting to endpapers several rear pages roughly cut. In a Very Good first issue unclipped dust jacket 195 mm tall with light dampstaining and rippling to spine panel moderate wear and pencil inscription to front flap. Goldstone & Payne A2a. John Steinbeck's second book was printed in a run of 2500 copies of which 1650 were bound and about 650 sold. The unsold copies bound and unbound were sold to the publisher Robert O. Ballou and rebound for the second third and fourth issues. Steinbeck would not see commercial success until the publication of his fifth book Tortilla Flat but The Pastures of Heaven received good reviews that heralded his future accolades. "Californians should take notice of this novel by one of its native sons" wrote The Los Angeles Times and Californians certainly did. Brewer, Warren & Putnam unknown books
1929ref. 1114022Robert M. McBride 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. NY Robert M. McBride 1929 1929. NY Robert M. McBride 1929 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book first issue with top edge stained and with the final black leaf present with the rare colorful pirate dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine unrestored one of only 1537 copies published when Steinbeck was 27 years old and just two weeks before the 1929 stock market crash a historical novel about the pirate Henry Morgan rendered in a purple prose manner quite unlike his realistic descriptive storytelling that followed Goldstone & Payne A1a Morrow 1. Very good book in a jacket with the usual spine color fade with chipping to top and bottom of spine unrestored jacket with internal tape reinforcement that could probably be safely removed by an expert. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Robert M. McBride hardcover
1939ref. 2202112Viking Press 1939. first. hardcover. near fine/near fine. First edition with First Published in April 1939 stated on copyright page and first edition stated at bottom of dj. Book near fine. Dust jacket near fine. Housed in custom-made slip case. Viking Press unknown
1929ref. 1114022Robert M. McBride 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. NY Robert M. McBride 1929 1929. NY Robert M. McBride 1929 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book first issue with top edge stained and with the final black leaf present with the rare colorful pirate dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine unrestored one of only 1537 copies published when Steinbeck was 27 years old and just two weeks before the 1929 stock market crash a historical novel about the pirate Henry Morgan rendered in a purple prose manner quite unlike his realistic descriptive storytelling that followed Goldstone & Payne A1a Morrow 1. Very good book in a jacket with the usual spine color fade with chipping to top and bottom of spine unrestored jacket with internal tape reinforcement that could probably be safely removed by an expert. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Robert M. McBride hardcover books
1939ref. 2202112Viking Press 1939. first. hardcover. near fine/near fine. First edition with First Published in April 1939 stated on copyright page and first edition stated at bottom of dj. Book near fine. Dust jacket near fine. Housed in custom-made slip case. Viking Press unknown books
1939ref. 162844New York: The Viking Press 1939. A stunning copy with the author's mounted signature First edition first printing with the author's signature on a card mounted to the half-title of his masterpiece one of the greatest American novels of the century and widely regarded as the supreme literary achievement of the Depression era. The film adaptation by Darryl F. Zanuck produced the following year is likewise readily ranked as among the greatest 20th-century American films. The fine jacket design is by the children's writer and illustrator Elmer Hader 1889-1973 joint recipient alongside his wife Berta of the 1948 Caldecott medal. Steinbeck was so taken with the illustrations in their book Billy Butter 1936 that he specially requested Elmer design the jacket for The Grapes of Wrath. Elmer later designed the jackets of East of Eden 1952 and The Winter of Our Discontent 1961. Octavo. Original buff cloth spine lettered in brown pictorial design in brown wrapped around spine and covers endpapers printed with sheet music for "Battle Hymn of the Republic" top edge yellow. With dust jacket. Housed in green quarter morocco folding box by the Chelsea Bindery. A fine copy in the exceptionally smart and bright jacket couple of trivial nicks to upper edges near-fine. Goldstone & Payne A12a. hardcover
ref. JD29949NY Viking 1939 first edition first printing dust jacket. Hardcover. No book is more identified with John Steinbeck than this masterpiece which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and which was the source for the film version directed by John Ford that starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad and which won Jane Darwell an Academy Award for her portrayal of Ma Joad the book was also the source for the Tony Award-winning Broadway play one of the true high spots of 20th Century literature jacket designed by Elmer Hader this is an incredibly scarce Review Copy with review slip from Viking this is the only review copy seen by this bookseller in more than 60 years of being involved in all things Steinbeck see Goldstone & Payne A12a see Morrow 107. Fine in a jacket with a couple of small tape ghosts from where the review slip was previously affixed jacket is otherwise clean bright and fine. NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover
ref. JD29949NY Viking 1939 first edition first printing dust jacket. Hardcover. No book is more identified with John Steinbeck than this masterpiece which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and which was the source for the film version directed by John Ford that starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad and which won Jane Darwell an Academy Award for her portrayal of Ma Joad the book was also the source for the Tony Award-winning Broadway play one of the true high spots of 20th Century literature jacket designed by Elmer Hader this is an incredibly scarce Review Copy with review slip from Viking this is the only review copy seen by this bookseller in more than 60 years of being involved in all things Steinbeck see Goldstone & Payne A12a see Morrow 107. Fine in a jacket with a couple of small tape ghosts from where the review slip was previously affixed jacket is otherwise clean bright and fine. NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover books
1937ref. 140946360New York: Covici Friede 1937. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing first issue with "pendula" on page 9 and a bullet between the two 8's of the page number on page 88. Signed by John Steinbeck on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. 186 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth stamped in orange and black. Near Fine with slight lean to binding contents lightly tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning to spine minor edge wear with several short closed tears. Small strip of offsetting to verso at spine from a previous dust jacket protector. A scarce signed edition of John Steinbeck's Western novella about the struggles of two itinerant farm workers George and Lennie in California during the Great Depression. One of only 2500 copies printed in the first issue. Covici Friede unknown
1937ref. 140946360New York: Covici Friede 1937. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing first issue with "pendula" on page 9 and a bullet between the two 8's of the page number on page 88. Signed by John Steinbeck on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. 186 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth stamped in orange and black. Near Fine with slight lean to binding contents lightly tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning to spine minor edge wear with several short closed tears. Small strip of offsetting to verso at spine from a previous dust jacket protector. A scarce signed edition of John Steinbeck's Western novella about the struggles of two itinerant farm workers George and Lennie in California during the Great Depression. One of only 2500 copies printed in the first issue. Covici Friede unknown books
1929ref. 319434New York: Robert M. McBride 1929. First edition first issue of the author's first book. vi 269 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original yellow cloth titled in black on front cover and spine top edge stained blue; pictorial dust jacket designed by Mahlon Blaine with $2.50 price present; tan cloth slipcase. The cloth in unusually bright condition; the jacket spine panel lightly faded and with wear at ends touching the top of titling a few abrasions to front and back panels. Despite these flaws a bright and entirely original copy of a book infrequently found in collector's condition. First edition first issue of the author's first book. vi 269 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. FIRST EDITION of the future Nobel laureate's elusive first book published when he was 27 years old. One of 1537 copies the publisher printed 2476 copies 939 of which were remaindered as unbound sheets. This was Steinbeck's fourth attempt at a novel and was rewritten six times from an unpublished story titled "A Lady in Infra-Red" which he composed while at Stanford. "Aside from a few reviews the only early recognition . was Berton Braley's 'thanks and acknowledgements' for Steinbeck's permission to use some of the incidents in a doggerel epic 'Morgan Sails the Caribbean' 1934" Peter Lisca 'The Wide World of John Steinbeck' Rutgers UP 1958. Goldstone & Payne A1a Robert M. McBride unknown
1932ref. 1114023Brewer Warren and Putnam 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. NY Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932 1932. NY Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. His second book Goldstone & Payne A2a Morrow 14 this first edition is one of only 1650 copies actually bound from a print-run of 2500 sets of sheets only 650 copies were actually sold. According to Harry Thornton Moore in his first critical study of Steinbeck's works The Pastures of Heaven "is the most popular of Steinbeck's three early books. It points the way to most of his subsequent writing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket 2 mm shorter than the book. The third issue dust jacket is reportedly 1/8th of an inch shorter than the first issue dust jacket so this could be the third issue jacket. Housed in a custom-made collectors slipcase. Brewer, Warren and Putnam hardcover
1961ref. 0225581961-1967. Letter. Some folds clean. Near Fine. Includes 6 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED John Steinbeck John or JS 1 TYPED LETTER SIGNED John and a partial AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED John all to Willard Bascom regarding Project Mohole and other matters 11 pages total various sizes and papers from Barbados Singapore and New York 15 February 1961 to 4 March 1967 including autograph transmittal envelope for March 4. Willard Bascom was a scientist and adventurer who in 1961 led the first phase of Project Mohole the worlds first attempt to sample the Mohorovicic discontinuity Moho where the earth's mantle and its crust meet. Bascom invited Steinbeck to join the expedition and Steinbeck wrote about the venture in an April 1961 LIFE MAGAZINE article. These letters reveal the foundations of their relationship as well as Steinbeck's participation and assistance to the projects beginnings exhibiting Steinbeck's relationships to the President and Washington: "It occurs to me to ask whether you will have motion picture cameras for recording purposes. Such a record would be valuable. It might also have some value in prying more money for future experimental work either from the congress or from the president. For my own part I intend to make the President personally aware of the project as soon as I have a proper understanding and basis." He also offers insight into the TIME MAGAZINE relationship: I made them read it back to me on the phone so I was sure that I had written what they printed. The letters show a developing friendship with Bascom and reveal the personal Steinbeck as he moved through his final years. Of a potential trip Steinbeck writes I am not going any places any more without Elaine. Life is too short to be away from her. He continues discussing his work presumably on TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY I have been living a fairly anchoretic life in this tower their NYC apartment. Working like a death watch beetle. Not only am I interested in what I am doing I want to get it finished. These letters reveal the life of Steinbeck in the 1960s both professionally and personally. WITH: A sweatshirt given to Bascom by John Steinbeck on the expedition navy blue knit cotton hooded sweatshirt front pouch pocket without maker's label or size indication unevenly faded soiling stains and some paint flecks. Steinbeck who bunked with Bascom on the Mohole expedition bought the sweatshirt for Bascom fearing that he would be cold as he was working his tail off on board ship. It matches one Steinbeck wore himself on board. See Benson JOHN STEINBECK WRITER New York 1984 pages 894-6. unknown books
1929ref. 319434New York: Robert M. McBride 1929. First edition first issue of the author's first book. vi 269 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original yellow cloth titled in black on front cover and spine top edge stained blue; pictorial dust jacket designed by Mahlon Blaine with $2.50 price present; tan cloth slipcase. The cloth in unusually bright condition; the jacket spine panel lightly faded and with wear at ends touching the top of titling a few abrasions to front and back panels. Despite these flaws a bright and entirely original copy of a book infrequently found in collector's condition. First edition first issue of the author's first book. vi 269 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. FIRST EDITION of the future Nobel laureate's elusive first book published when he was 27 years old. One of 1537 copies the publisher printed 2476 copies 939 of which were remaindered as unbound sheets. This was Steinbeck's fourth attempt at a novel and was rewritten six times from an unpublished story titled "A Lady in Infra-Red" which he composed while at Stanford. "Aside from a few reviews the only early recognition . was Berton Braley's 'thanks and acknowledgements' for Steinbeck's permission to use some of the incidents in a doggerel epic 'Morgan Sails the Caribbean' 1934" Peter Lisca 'The Wide World of John Steinbeck' Rutgers UP 1958. Goldstone & Payne A1a Robert M. McBride unknown books
1932ref. 1114023Brewer Warren and Putnam 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. NY Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932 1932. NY Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. His second book Goldstone & Payne A2a Morrow 14 this first edition is one of only 1650 copies actually bound from a print-run of 2500 sets of sheets only 650 copies were actually sold. According to Harry Thornton Moore in his first critical study of Steinbeck's works The Pastures of Heaven "is the most popular of Steinbeck's three early books. It points the way to most of his subsequent writing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket 2 mm shorter than the book. The third issue dust jacket is reportedly 1/8th of an inch shorter than the first issue dust jacket so this could be the third issue jacket. Housed in a custom-made collectors slipcase. Brewer, Warren and Putnam hardcover books
ref. 69902in the original frames; about 17 x 12 inches to 18 x 16 inches overall. Some nicks and use to the frames; one coin-sized tidemark and some extremely light foxing to the portrait of Ma Joad; portraits otherwise fine. Various sizes. From the estate of Elizabeth Ainsworth the author's sister. These portraits were issued separately in collection with the 1940 release of the Limited Edition Club's edition of the novel illustrated by Benton. They were presented to Steinbeck by the artist at that time and remained in Steinbeck's possession for the rest of his life. unknown
ref. JD29396n.p. NY n.p. The Viking Press n.d. 1944 first edition wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy an uncorrected galley proof bound in plain unprinted tannish wrappers printed on rectos only a very scarce advanced state of this minor or not so minor Steinbeck masterpiece whose themes of death and loneliness are masked by its surface layer of humor all the more rare in that this is an Author Presentation Copy Inscribed by Steinbeck to the best man at his second marriage Howard O. Hunter who was the Works Progress Administration WPA commissioner in the early 1940s under the FDR administration Steinbeck and his second wife Gwen Conger were married March 29 1943 just 11 days after receiving his final divorce decree from his first wife Carol Steinbeck has Inscribed the first preliminary as follows "For Howard/who really/belongs in/Cannery Row/John Steinbeck/last night in New York 1944" this galley lacks all the preliminaries found in the 1945 published version such as half titles title page copyright page dedication page etc. although not specifically cited in Goldstone & Payne there is a notation under G&P A22a that "a copy of the unrevised galley proofs is in the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas" see Morrow 172 that copy with a yellow label on front giving publication date and price that is not on this copy--the Morrow copy was not signed or inscribed now housed in a beautiful custom clamshell case with leather spine laid in loosely is a letter of provenance from Ellen Leonard who was given this proof by Hunter's wife Edna. This was bound for in-house use by Viking and not for sale thus it was never meant to be in great condition even when new spine ends are chipped there is offsetting from printed pages onto the previous verso some pages are becoming dis-bound. n.p. (NY), n.p. (The Viking Press), n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. paperback
