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1952Best.-Nr. 140949952New York: The Viking Press 1952. Signed Limited First Edition. Fine/Fine. First edition limited issue; one of 1500 copies signed by John Steinbeck of which 750 were for private distribution. viii 602 pp. Bound in publisher's green buckram stamped in gilt with spine blocked in brown all edges stained terra-cotta; in publisher's acetate jacket and faux-wood grain card slipcase. Fine in jacket with one small corner crease to the front flap and very light edge wear in a lightly worn and lightly sunned slipcase. An unusually nice copy and uncommon as such. The signed limited edition of what many consider Steinbeck's best novel. Based on the biblical story of Cain and Abel it was adapted into film in 1955 directed by Elia Kazan and starring James Dean. Goldstone and Payne A32a. The Viking Press unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 541008New York: Covici Friede 1937. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition first issue. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. A beautiful copy of this poignant classic novella of two Depression-era drifters whose dreams of a better life are not supported by fate. By way of illustration of this volume's scarcity 2500 copies of the first issue were printed vs. 50000 for The Grapes of Wrath and 78000 for Cannery Row. Basis for the 1939 Lewis Milestone film with Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney Jr. in the lead and which lost out to Gone With the Wind for the Best Picture Oscar in possibly Hollywood's greatest year other "losers" that year included The Grapes of Wrath Dark Victory Goodbye Mr. Chips The Wizard of Oz Ninotchka Stagecoach Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Wuthering Heights. Probably the nicest copy we've seen. Covici Friede hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 73772New York:: Covici Friede 1937. First edition first state. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Bookplate on pastedown; same owner's 1937 ink ownership notation on front free endpaper. A fine copy in a beautiful example of the dust jacket with almost none of the usual tanning to the spine. . 8vo. Covici Friede, hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 7093New York: Viking Press 1939. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. A few spots to the topstain otherwise a bright fresh copy. First issue dust jacket retains the original price and "First Edition" slug on the front flap. Slight toning to the spine and a little rubbing at the spine ends. Housed in a blue clamshell case. Steinbeck's classic account of the Dust Bowl and Depression era struggle of the Joad family The Grapes of Wrath is a quintessential American classic. It would win both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize; and the Nobel Prize committee would refer to it as Steinbeck's "epic chronicle" upon giving him the award in 1962. The book was the best-selling novel of 1939 and became instantly controversial upon its release for its depiction of farmers and worker rights. Of course The Grapes of Wrath was also adapted into the classic 1940 film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda which was one of the first films selected by The Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. "It is a very long novel the longest that Steinbeck has written and yet it reads as if it had been composed in a flash ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public as an ultimatum" Contemporary New York Times Review. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Viking Press unknown
1935Best.-Nr. 140946122New York: Covici Friede 1935. First Edition. Fine. First edition wrappered issue of the author's first successful novel. A fantastic survival of this format. Provenance: Actor Jean Hersholt with his label to interior of chemise; and later from the collection of John Steinbeck's nephew David Heyler. Publisher's original sewn binding in wraps original glassine wrap; approximately one of 500 copies that were bound as such. Though Goldstone and Payne mention there is no evidence this preceded the trade cloth issue it is often assumed that this was issued in advance of publication. Fine with a faint bump to foot of spine and endsheets faintly offset. A stunning copy with wonderful provenance housed in a custom folding slipcase. Goldstone and Payne A4a. Covici Friede unknown
1952Best.-Nr. 140949952New York: The Viking Press 1952. Signed Limited First Edition. Fine/Fine. First edition limited issue; one of 1500 copies signed by John Steinbeck of which 750 were for private distribution. viii 602 pp. Bound in publisher's green buckram stamped in gilt with spine blocked in brown all edges stained terra-cotta; in publisher's acetate jacket and faux-wood grain card slipcase. Fine in jacket with one small corner crease to the front flap and very light edge wear in a lightly worn and lightly sunned slipcase. An unusually nice copy and uncommon as such. The signed limited edition of what many consider Steinbeck's best novel. Based on the biblical story of Cain and Abel it was adapted into film in 1955 directed by Elia Kazan and starring James Dean. Goldstone and Payne A32a. The Viking Press unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 541008New York: Covici Friede 1937. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition first issue. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. A beautiful copy of this poignant classic novella of two Depression-era drifters whose dreams of a better life are not supported by fate. By way of illustration of this volume's scarcity 2500 copies of the first issue were printed vs. 50000 for The Grapes of Wrath and 78000 for Cannery Row. Basis for the 1939 Lewis Milestone film with Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney Jr. in the lead and which lost out to Gone With the Wind for the Best Picture Oscar in possibly Hollywood's greatest year other "losers" that year included The Grapes of Wrath Dark Victory Goodbye Mr. Chips The Wizard of Oz Ninotchka Stagecoach Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Wuthering Heights. Probably the nicest copy we've seen. Covici Friede hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 7093New York: Viking Press 1939. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. A few spots to the topstain otherwise a bright fresh copy. First issue dust jacket retains the original price and "First Edition" slug on the front flap. Slight toning to the spine and a little rubbing at the spine ends. Housed in a blue clamshell case. Steinbeck's classic account of the Dust Bowl and Depression era struggle of the Joad family The Grapes of Wrath is a quintessential American classic. It would win both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize; and the Nobel Prize committee would refer to it as Steinbeck's "epic chronicle" upon giving him the award in 1962. The book was the best-selling novel of 1939 and became instantly controversial upon its release for its depiction of farmers and worker rights. Of course The Grapes of Wrath was also adapted into the classic 1940 film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda which was one of the first films selected by The Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. "It is a very long novel the longest that Steinbeck has written and yet it reads as if it had been composed in a flash ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public as an ultimatum" Contemporary New York Times Review. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Viking Press unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 140946122New York: Covici Friede 1935. First Edition. Fine. First edition wrappered issue of the author's first successful novel. A fantastic survival of this format. Provenance: Actor Jean Hersholt with his label to interior of chemise; and later from the collection of John Steinbeck's nephew David Heyler. Publisher's original sewn binding in wraps original glassine wrap; approximately one of 500 copies that were bound as such. Though Goldstone and Payne mention there is no evidence this preceded the trade cloth issue it is often assumed that this was issued in advance of publication. Fine with a faint bump to foot of spine and endsheets faintly offset. A stunning copy with wonderful provenance housed in a custom folding slipcase. Goldstone and Payne A4a. Covici Friede unknown books
Best.-Nr. JD35566n.p. J. Wilson McKenney 1959 first edition. A broadside that excerpts an article on teachers originally written for and published by the "CTA Journal" in November 1955 this is one of the great Steinbeck rarities so rare that it is virtually unknown it is one of only 12 copies hand-set and printed by McKenney so stated McKenney was the printer for the "CTA California Teachers Association Journal" as well as the magazine's editor he had also been a book publisher via his Wilmac Press he was able to gain approval of his printing this broadside only after agreement between himself Steinbeck and his agents that the print-run would be small enough so as to be not commercially viable the broadside measures c.10X14 inches the text is about the three teachers who were most important in Steinbeck's life he specifically mentions Ed Ricketts by number this would be the second rarest Steinbeck collectible it is so rare that no Steinbeck collection public or private is known to have a copy not recorded by Goldstone & Payne Morrow or Holmes THIS WAS THE PRINTER'S OWN PERSONAL COPY the verso is inscribed by his widow thusly "My husband was J. Wilson McKenney. One of his greatest accomplishments was this Steinbeck broadside. This was his own personal copy which I now inscribe to Jim Dourgarian and his daughter Tracy. Mariam McKenney. 6/6/89" now housed in a wood and glass frame this is one of those items that can actually be called rare. Aged but framed to visually eliminate that age presents as fine. n.p., J. Wilson McKenney, 1959, first edition. unknown
Best.-Nr. JD30875NY 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 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 jacket with internal tape reinforcement. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1929, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover
Best.-Nr. JD35529NY Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. With a first issue dust jacket 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 a paltry 650 copies were actually sold this was his first book with what could be called the Steinbeck "sound" the book is comprised of inter-related stories set in a valley that came to represent Steinbeck Country in these stories something is not quite right with the inhabitants of this otherwise peaceful valley 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" this example of a short story cycle may well be Steinbeck's finest work scarce when found with the correct dust jacket those jackets that are noted as 2 mm shorter than the book are second issue jackets. Very good copy in a restored jacket. NY, Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover
Best.-Nr. JD30875NY 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 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 jacket with internal tape reinforcement. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1929, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 187292New York: The Viking Press 1939. The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads 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. "Lauded by critics nationwide for its scope and intensity the book attracted an equally vociferous minority opinion" with some debating Steinback's use of supposedly crass language and his unwavering sympathy for the disenfranchised ANB. It was consequently banned in several counties until well into the Second World War. The jacket design is by the children's writer and illustrator Elmer Hader 1889-1973 the 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. House in a custom blue quarter morocco solander box. Spine faintly toned mark to lower edge of book block; jacket unclipped spine and peripheries toned horizontal crease to spine just starting to crack silverfishing to fold of front flap a few nicks: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. Goldstone & Payne A12a. hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 21205711939. New York: Viking. 1939. 8vo. Original buff cloth spine lettered in brown pictorial design in brown to covers and spine top edge yellow with original dust-jacket by Elmer Hader displaying '$2.75' and 'First edition' illustrated endpapers with reproduction of the 'Battle Hymn of the Republic'; pp. 619; dust-jacket with minimal wear to the corners; a little toning to edges a couple of spots of browning mostly to outer margin of pp. 465-471 not affecting text; generally very good indeed.First edition first printing in the iconic dust-jacket designed by Elmer Hader scarce in such fine condition.Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is among the great American novels of the twentieth century its portrayal of the Joad family's struggle for survival amid the upheavals of the Great Depression giving enduring literary form to one of the defining crises of modern American history. The dedication to his first wife Carol Henning closes with the words 'who willed it' recognising a debt that extended well beyond personal encouragement. Carol's interest in the families uprooted by drought in the Great Plains helped bring their plight to Steinbeck's attention; she also typed and edited the manuscript and devised its title taken from Julia Ward Howe's 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' reprinted on the endpapers. Steinbeck brought the novel to completion in October 1938 after months of intense work confessing to his former roommate Carl Wilhelmson that 'this book was a terrible amount of work. I Never worked so hard in my life nor so long before' Wagner-Martin p. 60.The response to the book was immediate. By its publication on 14 April 1939 advance orders had already accounted for nearly 20000 copies and demand prompted further printings even before the novel reached the public. Within weeks sales had risen to 10000 copies a week; 430000 copies were printed in its first year. The novel went on to receive both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize and its place in Steinbeck's wider achievement was affirmed by the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. John Ford's celebrated screen adaptation starring Henry Fonda appeared in January 1940 as the novel reached its eleventh printing. It has never subsequently fallen out of print.The book's lasting power lies as much in the clarity of Steinbeck's prose as in its social vision. From the opening image of rain falling upon the damaged Oklahoma earth the landscape itself becomes a measure of hardship endurance and change: 'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma the last rains came gently and they did not cut the scarred earth'. The Joads' journey has inspired adaptations across film theatre opera and popular music but the novel's unadorned eloquence remains distinctive giving a single family's ordeal the scale of a national tragedy. The novel won both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize and was singled-out as a 'great work.an epic chronicle' in Steinbeck's citation for the Nobel Prize in 1962.Steinbeck specifically requested Elmer Hader for the iconic dust-jacket design having admired his illustrations for Billy Butter 1936. Hader whose work was chiefly devoted to children's books would later share the Caldecott Medal with his wife Berta in 1948. When opened out the jacket reveals Tom Joad from behind looking towards a procession of battered vehicles crossing the landscape beneath distant blue mountains. Its broad receding vista evokes both the scale of the migrants' journey and the uncertainty of what lies ahead.The copyright page states 'FIRST PUBLISHED IN APRIL 1939' without any reference to subsequent printings Goldstone & Payne A12a.Goldstone & Payne A12a; Wagner-Martin John Steinbeck: A Literary Life 2017. hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 140947921New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. vi 619 pp. Bound in publisher's oatmeal speckled cloth with brown pictorial stamping yellow topstain "Battle Hymn of the Republic" endpapers. Near Fine with darkening to cloth at joints light soiling to lower board and textblock edges and faint offsetting to endpapers. In a Near Fine correct first printing dust jacket with publisher's price $2.75 and "First Edition" statement present on front flap. Trivial toning small puncture to front flap fold. A beautiful copy in the original pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Elmer Hader. Goldstone & Payne A12. The classic American novel of the Great Depression and Okie migration which won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It inspired the acclaimed 1940 John Ford film. The Viking Press unknown
1939Best.-Nr. 140947921New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. vi 619 pp. Bound in publisher's oatmeal speckled cloth with brown pictorial stamping yellow topstain "Battle Hymn of the Republic" endpapers. Near Fine with darkening to cloth at joints light soiling to lower board and textblock edges and faint offsetting to endpapers. In a Near Fine correct first printing dust jacket with publisher's price $2.75 and "First Edition" statement present on front flap. Trivial toning small puncture to front flap fold. A beautiful copy in the original pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Elmer Hader. Goldstone & Payne A12. The classic American novel of the Great Depression and Okie migration which won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It inspired the acclaimed 1940 John Ford film. The Viking Press unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 266New York: Viking Press 1939. first edition first printing. original oatmeal cloth. Fine/Near Fine. A gorgeous copy of the Pulitzer Prize winner - one of the greatest American novels ever written. Condition: FINE/NF BOOK INFO Published in 1939 by Viking Press in New York. First edition first printing as indicated by “First Published in April 1939” statement on copyright page with no other printings listed and Battle Hymn of the Republic endpapers. In original oatmeal cloth covered boards and a first state dust jacket with the “first edition” slug on bottom of front flap and correct $2.75 price on top of front flap. CONDITION REPORT The book is in FINE vintage condition. Square spine firm hinges and joints sharp corners. Clean bright pages. No writing or ex libris marks. No bent page corners. Minimal rubbing or signs of handling beyond a few negligible spots and a little darkening to the foot of cloth turn-ins. Still beautifully FINE. The unrestored dust jacket is NEAR FINE. Colorful and vivid. No tears. Some spots of rubbing to spine and foot of front panel and some light edge wear else FINE. All flap corners clipped as with all copies by the publisher. EXCEPTIONAL QUALITIES 1. Unrubbed spine tips. 2. Remarkably without the usual darkening of the endpaper gutters quite scarce. 3. Very clean colorful and unfaded cloth and without the foxing which often afflicts this title. 4. Without the nearly universal darkening of the jacket spine. All in all a superior collectible copy of Steinbeck's masterpiece. . Viking Press unknown
1929Best.-Nr. 70009New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1929. First edition of Steinbeck's first book one of about 1500 copies. The publisher printed 2476 copies 939 of which were remaindered as unbound sheets. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Comes with the original publisher's glassine. Housed in a custom cloth case. Rare especially in this condition. “Written when Steinbeck was 27 years old and published in an edition of 2476 copies just two weeks before the stock market crashed Cup of Gold is a historical romance about the life of the pirate Henry Morgan” Valentine 1. From the mid-1650s through the 1660s Morgan a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America striking terror wherever he went. Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions: to possess the beautiful woman called La Santa Roja and to conquer Panama the "cup of gold." Steinbeck’s first novel and sole work of historical fiction. Robert M. McBride & Company hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 152672New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First edition of the dramatic version of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men wittily inscribed by him. Octavo original publisher's cloth. Lengthily signed by the author and also initialed on the half-title “by an author in 1 Act. John Steinbeck a walking mouse who dances from man to mouse J.S.” Steinbeck adapted his celebrated 1937 novel for the stage the same year and the play opened on Broadway that November. From the library of Otis L. Guernsey Jr. 1918-2001 the distinguished American drama and film critic and for more than three decades editor of the Best Plays theatre yearbook. Guernsey spent nineteen years at the New York Herald Tribune rising from copy boy to become the paper’s film and drama critic and arts editor before taking over the Best Plays series in 1964 and editing some thirty-six annual volumes an unrivaled record of the American stage. As one of the foremost theatre critics of his generation he moved in the same New York literary and theatrical world in which Steinbeck whose novels and plays were mainstays of stage and screen loomed so large. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise slipcase. A wonderful signed and playfully inscribed copy. Of Mice and Men the tragic story of the migrant ranch hands George and the gentle giant Lennie and their doomed dream of a place of their own is among the most widely read and taught works in American literature. John Steinbeck adapted his 1937 novel into a play the same year and the stage version won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for the 1937-1938 season. Steinbeck 1902-1968 went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath in 1940 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 and Of Mice and Men has been filmed several times notably in 1939 with Lon Chaney Jr. and Burgess Meredith and in 1992 with Gary Sinise and John Malkovich. Covici-Friede hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 108063Viking Press 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket with First Edition stated on the lower corner of the front flap of the dust jacket. Housed in a custom made collector's clamshell case with tooled quarter leather and gilt lettering and decoration. Viking Press hardcover
1947Best.-Nr. 152649New York: The Viking Press 1947. First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning writer a novel about a busload of lost souls on the back roads of California. Octavo original cloth. With a full page inscription by Steinbeck on the front free endpaper written in Spanish with a closing line in Latin the inscription reads in translation “The first title of this book was El Camión Vacilador. It is very difficult to translate this title. It means: we are puppets and we are hoping! I hope! John Steinbeck. Pray for us now and in the hour of our death. J.S.” This inscription is a remarkable piece of Steinbeck bibliographic history. The Wayward Bus was John Steinbeck's first novel following his Nobel Prize-era masterworks a sprawling allegorical narrative set aboard a broken-down bus carrying a cross-section of American travelers through the California backcountry that Steinbeck conceived as a modern American equivalent of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The inscription in this copy reveals that Steinbeck's original preferred title for the novel was El Camión Vacilador a Spanish phrase that he himself acknowledges is extremely difficult to translate precisely explaining in his own hand that it means something along the lines of "we are uncertain ones" or "we are waverers" — a concept captured in the wavering hesitating lurching motion of the bus itself as a metaphor for the moral and existential uncertainty of its passengers. The choice of a Spanish title reflects Steinbeck's deep and lifelong immersion in the culture and language of California's Mexican and Mexican-American communities a preoccupation that had informed Tortilla Flat 1935 and Cannery Row 1945 and that gave his California fiction much of its distinctive texture and voice. That Viking Press elected the more commercially accessible English title The Wayward Bus over Steinbeck's preferred Spanish original is a small but revealing episode in the history of American publishing and the author's wry inscription — closing with the Latin ora pro nobis nunc et in hora mortis "pray for us now and in the hour of our death" — suggests a characteristically mordant Steinbeck humor about the fate of titles at the hands of publishers From the library of Otis L. Guernsey Jr. 1918-2001 the distinguished American drama and film critic and for more than three decades editor of the Best Plays theatre yearbook. Guernsey spent nineteen years at the New York Herald Tribune rising from copy boy to become the paper’s film and drama critic and arts editor before taking over the Best Plays series in 1964 and editing some thirty-six annual volumes an unrivaled record of the American stage. As one of the foremost theatre critics of his generation he moved in the same New York literary and theatrical world in which Steinbeck whose novels and plays were mainstays of stage and screen loomed so large. The Wayward Bus itself would reach the screen in 1957. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Hallock. A unique example regarding the history of this book from the Steinbeck's point of view. In his first novel to follow the enormous success of The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads transporting the lost and the lonely the good and the greedy the stupid and the scheming the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and possibly toward the promise of the future. Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath in 1940 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection and best seller on its appearance The Wayward Bus was the basis for the 1957 film starring Jayne Mansfield Joan Collins Dan Dailey and Rick Jason. The Viking Press hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 108063Viking Press 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket with First Edition stated on the lower corner of the front flap of the dust jacket. Housed in a custom made collector's clamshell case with tooled quarter leather and gilt lettering and decoration. Viking Press hardcover books
1929Best.-Nr. 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
1939Best.-Nr. 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
