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1941réf. 1264651941. New York: Viking Press 1941. 8vo 598 pp. Illustrated. Original green cloth lettered in silver map endpapers unclipped dustjacket priced $5.00. Boards marked and scuffed dust jacket worn and a little faded with moderate edgewear but no major chips endpapers toned scattered foxing. Custom cloth slipcase somewhat spotted. A good plus copy with bookplate inscribed by Ed Ricketts on front pastedown. Bookplate lightly abraided but legible. § First edition with the book plate of Jewel and Patricia Stevens which has been inscribed by Ed Ricketts: "For the Stevens May 1 - 1945. I am delighted to sign this over to you good friends I have known perhaps longer than anyone except John. I think Sea of Cortez is a good book and I am glad you like it. Ed Ricketts". According to Katherine Rodger who edited the letters of Ricketts Jewel and Pat Stevens were friends of Ricketts's sister and lived near Chicago. unknown books
1937réf. 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
1941réf. 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
1939réf. 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
1952réf. 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
1937réf. 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
1962réf. 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
1938réf. 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
réf. 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
1937réf. 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
réf. 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
1951réf. 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
1964réf. 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
1962réf. 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
1939réf. 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
réf. 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
réf. 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
réf. 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
1939réf. 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
1939réf. 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
1950réf. 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
1956réf. 555787Oxford: Oxford University Press 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 106pp. Touch of edgwear else fine in a very good or better price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of foxing and a bit of edgewear including nicks and small tears. Presentation copy Inscribed by John Steinbeck to a teacher: “For Mrs. Hale This might be good to read to students when they feel put upon. I think it more filled with information than a hundred formal histories – with best wishes John Steinbeck / Perhaps you know this book. I hope not because the charm of first reading is so great.” A collection of 400 passages compiled by a 15th Century teacher of grammar at the Magdalen School in Oxford used for Latin translations by his students. Oxford University Press hardcover
1956réf. 555787Oxford: Oxford University Press 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 106pp. Touch of edgwear else fine in a very good or better price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of foxing and a bit of edgewear including nicks and small tears. Presentation copy Inscribed by John Steinbeck to a teacher: “For Mrs. Hale This might be good to read to students when they feel put upon. I think it more filled with information than a hundred formal histories – with best wishes John Steinbeck / Perhaps you know this book. I hope not because the charm of first reading is so great.” A collection of 400 passages compiled by a 15th Century teacher of grammar at the Magdalen School in Oxford used for Latin translations by his students. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1939réf. 022103Los Angeles: The Albertson Press in association with Bunster Creely 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Tipped-in illustration loose but present with resulting adhesive stains to leaf minor rubbing and wear to head and tail of spine. Near Fine. Publisher's red paper-covered boards gilt label printed in black to upper cover 5-3/4" x 8-14"; viii 9 pages with tipped in frontispiece. The first published book about Steinbeck written by a childhood friend. Copy #18 of 1000 copies SIGNED by the author. Additionally SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the subject: This is a god damned lie/John Steinbeck. Bennett's chapbook released after the phenomenal success of THE GRAPES OF WRATH tells the story of meeting a young John Steinbeck years earlier having a brief discussion about the nature of socialism in a capitalist society and attending a church service in which Steinbeck heckled the preacher foreshadowing the contempt for that profession dramatized in his epic novel. From the Mary Dekker Steinbeck Family collection. The Albertson Press in association with Bunster Creely hardcover books
réf. 06592New York: Covici Friede 1936. Steinbeck's First Book - The Buccaneer Romance of Henry Morgan Cup of Gold - First Covici Friede Edition Using McBride Sheets STEINBECK John. Cup of Gold. A Life of Sir Henry Morgan Buccaneer with Occasional Reference to History. New York: Covici Friede 1936. First Covici Friede edition after the McBride first edition of 1929. Octavo 7 7/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 188 x 130 mm. viii 269 3 blank pp. Publisher's maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt top edge stained blue others uncut. Very slight fading 1/16 inch at lower spine and top edges otherwise fine. In the original first-issue color pictorial dust jacket with only minimal rubbing to extremities. Overall a superb example. Originally published in 1929 Cup of Gold was Steinbeck's first book - a romantic and imaginative re-creation of the life of the Welsh privateer Sir Henry Morgan. Though quite different in tone from the social realism that would later define his reputation the novel reveals early evidence of Steinbeck's narrative power and his fascination with myth ambition and the human condition. This 1936 Covici Friede issue represents the first reappearance of the work following Steinbeck's growing success in the mid-1930s. The edition is bibliographically significant: it utilizes unsold sheets of the original 1929 Robert M. McBride edition newly issued with a Covici Friede title-page and binding. In effect Covici Friede acquired the remaining McBride stock and reissued it under their own imprint. When these sheets were exhausted later printings were produced independently by Covici Friede typically in blue cloth. As such this edition occupies an important transitional position between the exceedingly rare McBride first issue and the later more common reprints. Copies in such fresh condition particularly with the fragile and vividly illustrated dust jacket intact are increasingly scarce. A particularly attractive and bibliographically interesting example of Steinbeck's elusive first book. Goldstone & Payne A1c. New York: Covici Friede, 1936 unknown
