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ref. JD29403London Heinemann 1939 first British edition first printing dust jacket. Hardcover. With the very scarce wrap-around band noting this was a Book Society Fiction Choice this copy with a small slip affixed to the title page that is Inscribed by John Steinbeck "For L. Downing/John Steinbeck" Goldstone & Payne A12b Morrow 108. Near fine. London, Heinemann, 1939, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover books
ref. JD29431NY Viking 1962 first edition wrappers. Softcover. Frontispiece photo portrait of Steinbeck one of 3200 copies printed Goldstone & Payne A40a Morrow 269 this copy Inscribed by Steinbeck on the title page "For Lou Robinson/with pleasure/John Steinbeck" very scarce thus. Fine. NY, Viking, 1962, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. paperback books
ref. JD26993NY Robert O. Ballou 1933 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. First issue of his third book one of only 598 copies actually bound and sold Goldstone & Payne A3a Morrow 22 endpapers title page vignette and dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine this book is Steinbeck at his most powerful and his most mystical. Black top edge stain still very black book cloth somewhat mottled jacket with one short tear this is a very pleasing and attractive copy of a very scarce book. NY, Robert O. Ballou, 1933, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover books
1937ref. 204new york: covici friede 1937. second state 1937. printed the same year as the first edition. classic american novella that takes place during the great depression. follows the experiences of two migrant farmworkers as they move from place to place in search of work. steinbeck based the story on his experience working alongside migrant farmworkers as a teenager in california. steinbeck's 1962 nobel prize citation called the work a "little masterpiece." originally written with a stage play in mind "of mice and men" was adapted as a hollywood film in 1939. gold stone and payne a7b new york: covici friede. 4.75 x 7.5". 186 pages. hardcover. book condition: tiny closed tear to page 9 else fine. jacket condition: mild fading colors mild shelfwear else fine. no price as issued. fine-. covici friede unknown
1939ref. 19471New York: Viking Press 1939. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. Original brown publisher’s pictorial cloth with illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped with “First Edition” on lower corner of front flap. Copyright page states “First Published in April 1939.” Includes like new folded advertisement booklet entitled “What America thinks of The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck” by Newbegin’s Book Shop San Francisco. Dust jacket a bit ragged on top edges with minor rubbing on joints but otherwise very good; book in fine condition. First edition first issue; a fine copy of Steinbeck’s most iconic novel. One of the most important pieces of twentieth-century American literature Steinbeck’s colorful dialogue and haunting prose brought global attention to the plight of the farmers and migrant workers of the Dust Bowl. Almost one hundred years later the novel’s central themes of economic disparity labor rights climate change and religious conflict will still resonate with modern readers. This is an extremely crisp near pristine first edition copy. As a young man Steinbeck 1902-1968 worked with migrant laborers on the farms of his native central California coast an experience which became a rich source of inspiration for several of his novels and short stories. Goldstone A12. Viking Press unknown
1939ref. 19471New York: Viking Press 1939. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. Original brown publisher’s pictorial cloth with illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped with “First Edition” on lower corner of front flap. Copyright page states “First Published in April 1939.” Includes like new folded advertisement booklet entitled “What America thinks of The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck” by Newbegin’s Book Shop San Francisco. Dust jacket a bit ragged on top edges with minor rubbing on joints but otherwise very good; book in fine condition. First edition first issue; a fine copy of Steinbeck’s most iconic novel. One of the most important pieces of twentieth-century American literature Steinbeck’s colorful dialogue and haunting prose brought global attention to the plight of the farmers and migrant workers of the Dust Bowl. Almost one hundred years later the novel’s central themes of economic disparity labor rights climate change and religious conflict will still resonate with modern readers. This is an extremely crisp near pristine first edition copy. As a young man Steinbeck 1902-1968 worked with migrant laborers on the farms of his native central California coast an experience which became a rich source of inspiration for several of his novels and short stories. Goldstone A12. Viking Press unknown books
1948ref. 058669New York: Viking Press 1948. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12. Capa Robert photos. 220pp.; HB quarter-bound; blue gray & blue w/beige & blue; slight rub & soil w/clean tight pgs. DJ blue w/black color photocover; some rub w/light sun on spine; small chips & tears. "One of the world's best-loved authors accompanied by one of the world's most famous photographers meets the Russian people face to face. Refreshingly informally and without political bias he tells us how they live and what they think." With 70 photographs by Robert Capa Viking Press hardcover
1938ref. 058679New York: Viking Press 1938. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hader Elmer dj. 303pp.; HB quarter-bound; brick w/white & brick; some rub w/wear on edges & corners; spine w/soil; clean tight pgs. DJ color pic. cover w/black rubbed w/wear on edges & corners; some sun on spine; chips & tears. 16 short stories almost all set in the Salinas Valley Viking Press hardcover
1954ref. 058964New York: Viking Press 1954. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Galdone Paul dj. 273pp.; HB light green w/red & blue pic. cover; some rub w/wear on corners; spine sunned w/some fray; fake inscription; clean tight pgs. DJ blue w/black & white color pic. cover; some rub w/wear on edges & corners; some light tan. "Beneath the theme of boisterous humor the reader will find subtle and poignant patterns which will give him a grateful new awareness of why John Steinbeck occupies his preeminent position among living novelists. Viking Press hardcover
1960ref. 361749Los Angeles: Comedia Productions 1960. Ephemera. Very good. A production script for an undetermined production of this musical based on the characters from Steinbeck's Cannery Row. The initial 1955 production was widely panned but it has been produced in smaller theaters around the US. This version with Leslie Abbott's Comedia Productions imprint is undated but may be from the 1960s or 1970s. Abbott 1925–2012 spent most of his career in the San Francisco Bay Area where he taught at Diablo Valley College and directed more than 150 plays. Why this script has a Los Angeles address your cataloguer does not know. The script is a photocopy of a much photocopied script bound with prong fasteners into a blue paper folder. A costume designer has made note on various pages and on the verso back of the last leaf including "Pad Sandee's Boobs." Prong binding somewhat rusted. With notes from the bookseller Peter Howard Serendipity Books in Berkeley on the first page. Comedia Productions unknown
1940ref. feb1186381940: First Romanian Edition of The Grapes of Wrath Fructele maniei Used. For more details please contact me Socec hardcover
1980ref. 293253New York.: Richard West; The Pynson Printers. 1980. Limited edition 150 copies. Burgundy buckram gilt spine title. Near fine small scuff to lower edge of front cover no dust jacket as issued. 25.5x17 cm. A scarce item for the Steinbeck collector. This is a later facsimile reprint of the original 1936 edition of 370 copies. An excerpt from Pastures of Heaven. weight: 0.9 lb. Richard West; The Pynson Printers. hardcover
1950ref. 010661New York: The Viking Press 1950. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 159 pp prev owner's ink - name and date foreword 4.75" x 7.6" gray cloth red design and letters in clipped DJ. Binding tight pages clean unmarked paper well-preserved. . The Viking Press Hardcover
1991ref. 110282Yolla Bolly Press 1991. Limited. Hardcover. Fine/No jacket. #73/190cc. Signed by the illustrator Karin Wikstrom. Included is a xeroxed copy of commentary that accompanied the book signed by the writer Robert Morsberger. In a slipcase. Yolla Bolly Press hardcover
1991ref. 10120Covelo California: The Yolla Bolly Press 1991. As New. 1991. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 64 edition of 257 copies signed Karin Wikstrom on the colophon. 169 pp. ; 4to; bound in handmade Japanese paper over boards with burgundy buckram spine and corners in publisher's slipcase. With publisher's printed Announcement / Prospectus in original mailing envelope. The original treatment by Steinbeck for a proposed 1949 film biography. Lost for over thirty years the manuscript was recovered by The Yolla Bolly Press. Steinbeck's lost book is a stirring account of the life of Emiliano Zapata the martyred hero of the Mexican Revolution. ; Roberston James & Carolyn. Making Books in the Woods. Covelo California: The Yolla Bolly Press 1997. 4to; 10 leaves; printed title on opaque paper endpapers. One thousand copies were printed. The type was set in Bembo by Monotype at M&H Type in San Francisco and by hand at the Press. Illustrated with photographs of the Press taken by Brian Shea and printed by duotone offset lithography. This is one of 750 unsigned copies in Fabriano Ingres wrappers. Fine condition. A description of a distinctive approach to the printing of fine books - in a barn - within the relatively remote confines of Covelo situated in the Round Valley region of California. ; Signed by Authors . The Yolla Bolly Press (1991) hardcover
1975ref. 107282Franklin Center:: Franklin Library. Near Fine. 1975. Hardcover. 1940 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction. Limited edition. Octavo fully bound in red leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Near fine.; 589 pages . Franklin Library, hardcover books
1938ref. 5250Viking 1938. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. A First Edition of this Steinbeck classic in the original dustjacket. With "first published in September 1938" on the copyright page. The book is square and solid with an attractive red topstain on the top edges bound in cream buckram with burn orange cloth covers. With 303 pages the book shows overall darkening on the covers edges and endpapers but the interior is quite clean. The endpapers show the aging of the glue used during publication and a previous owner's name. The dustjacket is complete with the original price $2.50 and a small sales sticker with the same price from the D.W. Robinson Co. in Los Angeles. Overall the dustjacket shows wear and darkening with a split between the spine and back panel held together with what a previous owner claims is acid-free tape. We have added an archival plastic dustjacket which protects the integrity of the fragile but original dustjacket. Overall an important book in the original cloth that shows its age and poor quality of publishing materials but still a special copy. Only 8000 copies of this book were printed. Even from the start of his writing career Steinbeck viewed the Salinas Valley not just as a setting but as a central character in his works. In a 1933 letter to George Albee Steinbeck wrote:“I think that I would like to write the story of this whole valley of all the little towns and all the farms and the ranches in the wilder hills. I can see how I would like to do it so that it would be the valley of the world” Letters p. 73. Steinbeck’s deep attachment to the Monterey County landscape informed the symbolic setting in all the short stories collected in “The Long Valley” 1938. Published between “Of Mice and Men” 1937 and “The Grapes of Wrath” 1939 the collected stories in “The Long Valley” help trace Steinbeck’s developing themes that later became the backdrop for “The Grapes of Wrath” the novel which ultimately won him universal acclaim and transformed Salinas Valley into “Steinbeck Country.” Given their thematic kinship we’ve found that it’s not uncommon for collectors to pair first editions of “The Grapes of Wrath” and “The Long Valley” considering them companion pieces in their libraries. Steinbeck’s letters about his spiritual connection to this region are worth reading. In another 1933 letter this time to his publisher Steinbeck underscores his almost spiritual connection to the region: “My country is different from the rest of the world. It seems to be one of those pregnant places from which come wonders… I was born into it and my father was. Our bodies came from this soil… our bones came from the limestone of our own mountains and our blood is distilled from the juices of this earth. I tell you now that my country a hundred miles long and about fifty wide is unique in the world.” Steinbeck’s reverence for this landscape continues today through the work of the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas which holds regular community events and exhibitions exploring the terrain that shaped his literary imagination. Steinbeck’s letters about the landscape of his childhood are accessible through the Center for Steinbeck Studies which also supports literary scholarship and hosts the International Steinbeck Conference. The Center’s 2026 call for literary and scholarly papers titled Steinbeck in Times of Crisis continues to explore the relevance of his environmental and social vision. Steinbeck’s attention to character depth can be traced back to his formative studies at Stanford where he studied short fiction under Edith Mirrielees. Viking unknown
ref. 0613709225.Glibrary. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
1940ref. 5824San Francisco Calif: Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte 1940. Large octavo 62 pages. Index. Illustrated; printed throughout in black and pale brown. Second Edition originally published under the slightly different title Famous Recipes of Famous People and issued by the Hotel del Monte without Sunset Magazine in 1936. A compilation of celebrity recipes with the recipes attributed to the famous including: Gertrude Stein John Steinbeck Walt Disney J. Edgar Hoover Rube Goldberg and many others. Also includes a section of recipes of well-known chefs of the day with a bias toward California Hotels and the west in general as well as a short section of recipes from the Hotel Del Monte. The playful illustrations by Sinclair Ross alternately reference Hollywood and the frontier West. Endpapers reproduce the autographs of many of the celebrities featured in the book. Publisher's gilt-decorated cream-colored boards near fine. In clean and bright yellow dust jacket printed in blue and orange but with several good-sized chips to the front and rear panels. Dust jacket is good only. Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte hardcover
1940ref. 5824San Francisco Calif: Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte 1940. Large octavo 62 pages. Index. Illustrated; printed throughout in black and pale brown. Second Edition originally published under the slightly different title Famous Recipes of Famous People and issued by the Hotel del Monte without Sunset Magazine in 1936. A compilation of celebrity recipes with the recipes attributed to the famous including: Gertrude Stein John Steinbeck Walt Disney J. Edgar Hoover Rube Goldberg and many others. Also includes a section of recipes of well-known chefs of the day with a bias toward California Hotels and the west in general as well as a short section of recipes from the Hotel Del Monte. The playful illustrations by Sinclair Ross alternately reference Hollywood and the frontier West. Endpapers reproduce the autographs of many of the celebrities featured in the book. Publisher's gilt-decorated cream-colored boards near fine. In clean and bright yellow dust jacket printed in blue and orange but with several good-sized chips to the front and rear panels. Dust jacket is good only. Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte hardcover books
1936ref. 8001503NY: Covici-Friede 1936. Endpapers have been professionally restored and book tightened. The dustwrapper shows one removal of sticker on spine that left a 1" X 1/2" area where it affected the man's jacket but no text. This is the 1936 issue of Steinbeck's first book printed with remainder sheets of the 1929 first edition and with new front material. This copy in blue cloth and the dustwrapper states that Steinbeck is the author of "Of Mice and Men". An acceptable copy priced accordingly. . Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good /Very Good . Covici-Friede Hardcover
1936ref. 010340NY: Covici-Friede 1936. Books has been rebound in full brown leather with raised bands stamped in gold. Endpapers have been professionally restored. Top edge stained dark blue. This is the 1936 issue of Steinbeck's first book printed with remainder sheets of the 1929 first edition and with new front material. A rebound copy priced right. Ref.: Harmon 10.c.; GP-A1c. . Second Printing. Full Leather. Very Good /No Jacket. Covici-Friede Hardcover
1961ref. 3058Budapest: Europa 1961. Early Hungarian editon. In original cloth. Very good condition. Early Hungarian editon. In original cloth. 550 p. Signed. Europa unknown
1940ref. 2730Hungary 1940. In very good condition little water stains. Designed by Malomvizi. Designed by Malomvizi. 29 x205 cm. Directed by John Ford. This design was used for the printed poster. unknown
1947ref. 1387Budapest: Uj Idök Irodalmi Intézet Rt. Singer és Wolfner kiadása 1947. Second Hungarian edition. In publisher’s half cloth with illustrated front panel. With the illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly chipped small tears at foldings restored at head of the spine otherwise in very good condition. Pages yellowed due to acidic paper apart from that the book is fine condition. With 18 full page illustrations by Lajos Szalay. With 18 full page illustrations by Lajos Szalay. Second Hungarian edition. In publisher’s half cloth with illustrated front panel. With the illustrated dust jacket. 213 3 p. Illustrated Hungarian edition of John Steinbeck’s 1937 novella Of Mice and Man with the scarce illustrated dust jacket. Uj Idök Irodalmi Intézet Rt. (Singer és Wolfner) kiadása unknown
