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1942réf. 1401844New York: The Viking Press 1942. Hardcover. Octavo 188 pages. In Fair plus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is blue with white print. Dust jacket in mylar; light edge wear. Price unclipped: “$2.00. Boards in blue cloth; light wear to bottom edge. Text block has tanning to endpapers cracked front hinge. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401844. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1961réf. 1401845London: Heinemann 1961. Hardcover. Octavo 365 pages. In Good condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine is brown with orange and white print. Dust jacket in mylar b&w portrait of author on rear panel; light edge wear. Price unclipped: “18s net”. Boards in purple cloth; slight wear to spine caps. Text block has spotting to top edge. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401845. FP New Rockville Stock. Heinemann hardcover books
1954réf. 1401846New York: The Viking Press 1954. Hardcover. Octavo x 273 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is blue with black and white print. Dust jacket in mylar b&w portrait of author on rear panel; light edge wear. Price unclipped: “$3.50”. Boards in tan cloth red print; slight wear to spine caps toning to spine cocked spine. Text block has pink tinted top edge; name in ink on front flyleaf tanning to endpapers. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401846. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1945réf. 1401154New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Thus Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo 131 pages. In Very Good condition. Tan slipcase has moderate wear including slight age toning and chipping to the edges. Bound in the publisher's beige cloth bearing gilt lettering to the green spine. Boards have very slight wear including minor edge wear. Text block has slight wear including slight age toning to the interior. Edges colored green. Pictorial end papers. Illustrated. First illustrated edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column L ND-L. 1401154. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1984réf. 595412Salinas California: The Valley Guild 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 223pp. Illustrated from color photographs. Just a touch of edgewear else fine in a toned and lightly soiled very good dust jacket with moderate rubbing a few bumps and tiny tears. The Valley Guild hardcover books
1955réf. 582622New York: Avon Publications 1955. Softcover. Very Good. First edition paperback original. Moderate edgewear creased spine very good. Contributions by John Steinbeck Norman Mailer Budd Schulberg Truman Capote William Sansom Herman Wouk Robert Penn Warren and others. Avon #T-109. Avon Publications unknown books
1990réf. 593051New York: Mallard Press 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Pages lightly toned else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a faint crease on the front panel. A collection of 24 crime stories by: Margery Allingham Agatha Christie Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dashiell Hammett P.D. James John D. MacDonald John Steinbeck Aldous Huxley W. Somerset Maugham Dorothy L. Sayers Avram Davidson Edgar Allan Poe G. K. Chesterton and more. Mallard Press hardcover books
1954réf. 33412London: William Heinemann Ltd 1954. Very Good/Good. London: William Heinemann Ltd 1954. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; viii264pp. Jacket margins quite chipped and worn with losses at spine ends additional small loss at bottom edge of rear panel not approaching text or image spine cloth sunned where jacket has suffered losses spine a bit cocked; a Very Good copy in a Good only example of the jacket. Goldstone A33c. William Heinemann Ltd unknown books
1961réf. 67648New York: Viking 1961. Hardcover. Fine. First edition limited issue one of 500 copies. Fine lacking the dust jacket and printed acetate overjacket. Although not called for this copy is Inscribed by the author: "For Oliver H. Clark from John Steinbeck." Scarce thus. Viking hardcover books
1936réf. 56139New York: Pynson Printers 1936. Hardcover. Fine. First Separate Edition originally published in The Pastures of Heaven 1932. An unusually fine fresh copy with the corners square and virtually unrubbed. Goldstone notes that the paper supply allowed only 370 copies to be printed. Published for subscribers to use as Christmas gifts the colophon was customized with the subscriber's name following "made by the Pynson Printers of New York at the request of blank for presentation to blank." Fifty copies were so designated for Elmer Adler 100 for Frederick B. Adams Jr. 150 for Ben Abramson 50 for Edwin J. Beinecke and 20 for antiquarian bookseller Howard Mott although evidently fewer were issued with his name; only one is known. Unknown to Goldstone there were six copies for Steinbeck as well. This copy has the subscriber's name The Colophon handwritten in for presentation to the noted printer Carl P. Rollins. Additionally this copy is Signed by the subscribers Adams and Adler as well as by bookman John T. Winterich. All three were editors of The Colophon a magazine for book collectors. Rollins was the first "University Printer" at Yale. Goldstone A2f. Pynson Printers hardcover books
réf. 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 books
1937réf. 24508New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First edition second printing. Hardcover. Orig. tan cloth backstrip and front cover decorated and lettered. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 186. 19 x 12.5 cm. A riveting tale of friendship dreams and the struggles faced by people during the Great Depression. Their journey underscores the challenges of the era and explores themes of loyalty ambition and the human yearning for a place to call home. This work was one of the most commonly censored and prohibited books because of the references to racism and offensive language. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A7b. Covici-Friede hardcover books
1984réf. 66616Covelo CA: Yolla Bolly Press 1984. Paperback. Near Fine. Karin Wikström. 14pp. Slim quarto 31.5cm. Beige printed wraps. Mild soiling particularly to rear wrap. In 1984 the Yolla Bolly Press published a limited edition of John Steinbeck's powerful short story "Flight" and Wallace Stegner's afterword complete with six color woodcuts by Karin Wilkström. This abridged presentation edition has isolated the afterword and features one color woodcut. Yolla Bolly Press paperback books
1929réf. 1244328New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1929. First edition. Octavo. Hardcover in original yellow cloth; no dust jacket. Author's first book one of only 1537 printed. Boards soiled; rubbed at extremities; spine sunned; foxing to endpapers; foxing and water damage to first few pages of text; piece missing from page one not affecting text. Scattered foxing throughout. Good copy only. KT Consignment. Shelved in Case 13. 1244328. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Robert M. McBride & Company unknown books
1947réf. 002560Praha Prague: Jaroslav Podrouzek 1947. First Edition. Very good. First edition 1 of 5000 copies; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 2; 5-225 5; plain brown wraps; pictorial DJ; light wear to tips of spine and corners; signatures loose as issued tucked into each other; hinges a bit weak; very good condition. Jacket design and typography by B. Forman; small nicks to edges; in good to very good condition. First Czech edition of Steinbeck's arguably first commercial and critical success it was released 2 years after the original edition was published in the United States. OCLC lists 3 copies at institutions; none other in the American trade as of December 2019. Jaroslav Podrouzek paperback books
1951réf. 602948New York: A.I.G.A. 1951. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 16mo. 58pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Rubbing at the edges very good. Contains the first book appearance of John Steinbeck's "Some Random and Randy Thoughts on Books" G&P B66 and comments by Pearl S. Buck Erskine Caldwell John Dos Passos John Hersey William Carlos Williams and more. A.I.G.A. unknown books
1966réf. 198409New York: Bantam Books Inc / Bantam Pathfinder Editions 1966. Softcover. Good. Later printing. Mass market paperback. Pages and wrappers age-toned chip on bottom corner on page 61 not affecting text small sticker on rear wrapper good only. Bantam Books Inc / Bantam Pathfinder Editions unknown books
1947réf. 249591New York: Viking 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Book club. Very good Hardcover in Good Dustwrapper Book Club cloth shows rubbing with light soiling former owners name on end paper light browning of page edges dust jacket browned with closed tears in bottom of front cover taped from inside a few tears and chips on edges. Viking hardcover books
1942réf. 160583New York: Viking 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. About Very good in good dust jacket. A later state. Book covers are faded slightly soiled. Dustwrapper has rubs/chips/tears along edges. Viking hardcover books
1995réf. 268228New York: Book of the Month Club 1995. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good plus hardcover with similar dust jacket. Book club edition. Pages cover and dust jacket are clean. Book of the Month Club hardcover books
1947réf. 1331124New York: The Viking Press 1947. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine brown illustrated yellow and grey print; DJ in mylar small tears at spine ends and flap corners wear to hinges and edges small blemishes on rear small label on spine; Boards in brown cloth with gold print mild wear to corners and spine caps else clean and strong; Text block has lightly shaken binding mild age-toning to paper clean text; 312 pages. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R ND-R. 1331124. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
2002réf. 709877NY: Ballantine Books. 2002. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Ballantine Books paperback books
1932réf. 1278639New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932. First Edition First Issue. 8vo. 294pp.; G-/no DJ; bound in green cloth spine has faded lettering 'MAY / C.O.' written in white paint on tail of spine covering publishers information; lacking dust jacket; Ex Library bookplate for The May Company on front pastedown cancelled stamp on front pastedown; rear panel on the dust jacket has been pasted onto the ffep; title page and spine both state publisher as 'Brewer Warren & Putnam'; bumping and wear to boards; spine cocked; rear endpaper ripped out small sticker reading 'TheMayCo' on rear pastedown; water stain to upper fore corner of pages 273-end does not impact text; The first edition first issue of The Pastures of Heaven G&P A2a was published in 1932 by Brewer Warren & Putnam. Although the firm printed 2500 sets of sheets only 1650 copies were bound and 650 copies were sold.; KT consignment; shelved Case 13. 1278639. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Brewer, Warren & Putnam unknown books
1961réf. 23956New York: Viking Press 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth with beveled edges lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 311 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition one of 500 copies bound for the friends of the author and the publishers. Original acetate dust wrappers which bears "Limited Edition" in red. Latter is chipped at bottom with slight loss. This title is often regarded as one of his most powerful works and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. The story follows Ethan Allen Hawley a former member of a wealthy family who is now struggling financially and morally. He begins to consider dishonest actions to restore his wealth and status but ultimately faces a crisis of conscience. The novel explores themes of morality corruption and the American Dream. Interior crisp and clean almost as new. Viking Press hardcover books
1939réf. 22546New York: Viking Press 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated beige cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 619 pages. 21 x14 cm. With dust wrapper noting "First Edition" and noting the $2.75 price at publication. Dust wrapper designed by Elmer Hader. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Perhaps the most influential and best remembered book to come out of the Great Depression. Goldstone and Payne A12a. Decorated endpapers a musical score of the "Battle Hymn of The Republic." Nicks to backstrip head of dust wrapper with slight loss front cover of dust wrapper at lower foot slightly rubbed interior contents fresh and clean. Viking Press hardcover books
