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1954ref. 021229New York: The Viking Press 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight bump to bottom front corner. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. In the first issue dustwrapper. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Steinbeck on the front endpaper: "For Craig/Sincerely/John Steinbeck/New York." A scarce book to find authentically signed The Viking Press hardcover books
1937ref. 2327447New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x1. First book club edition matching points of second state correction to 'loosely' on page 9 no bullet on page 88 Saint Katy the Virgin appears in list of author's works opposite title page with original jacket lacking price and printing number on flap. Very good in good jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners jacket toned jacket flap corners trimmed. Binding tight and square pages clean and unmarked. 1937 Hard Cover. 186 pp. One of Steinbeck's most famous novels written three years before he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Grapes of Wrath. "They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie a man of tremendous size has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family" clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields they hustle work when they can living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him. Covici Friede Publishers hardcover books
1937ref. 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
1966ref. 504164New York: The Viking Press 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Text by John Steinbeck. Photographs edited by the staff of Studio Books. Quarto. 207pp. Illustrated. A very good copy in very good dust jacket with lightly browned spine a few short tears and mended on the verso with archival tape. The Viking Press hardcover books
ref. 014778First Edition. Document. About Fine. Two illustrated single-sheet 6" x 9" playbills. OF MICE AND MEN is for the Sam Harris production at Philadelphia's Chestnut St. Opera House starring Claire Luce and Guy Robertson. PIPE DREAM is the Shubert Theatre production starring Helen Traubel and William Johnson. unknown books
1951ref. 282239New York: Bantam Books 1951. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 16mo. Very good with light wear to wrappers pages are age-toned. Contributors: John Steinbeck William Faulkner Philip Wylie Clifton Fadiman Bertrand Russell and more. Bantam Books unknown books
1942ref. 167656Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1942. Two vintage reference photograph from the 1942 film. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the versos. Based on John Steinbeck's 1935 novel about a poor Mexican American who unexpectedly inherits two homes in California leading to tension and resentment among his impoverished friends. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1953ref. 69082n.p. 1953. n.p.: 1953. Full Description: STEINBECK John. Manuscript draft for essay entitled "My Short Novels". n.p.n.d ca: 1953. Manuscript draft in Steinbeck's hand for the essay entitled "My Short Novels which served as a preface to the Literary Guild's 1953 edition of "The Short Novels of John Steinbeck." A near word for word representation of the essay which was originally published by The Literary Guild Review and found in their magazine "Wings" in October 1953 Pages 4-8. This manuscript is exciting because it is an close representation but still a draft of what was finally printed. In comparing the two documents you can see that the published piece was trimmed down a bit from what Steinbeck wrote in this manuscript draft. Many of the edits are eliminations of a few words here and there but there are a few places where whole sentences and ideas have been cut. Most of these are some what self-deprecating which is interesting to watch him ultimately play down. Apart from punctuation changes the parts of this manuscript that are not found in the final publication have been indicated by us below by being housed within brackets. Four foolscap legal-sized pages 12 1/2 x 8 inches; 318 x 202 mm. Written in pencil on recto only of each page. With a few notes and corrections. Each page is approximately 28 lines long. Lacking a final leaf which would go on to discuss the final two stories. Some minor toning and a small bump to bottom left corner of all leaves. Still a near fine example of a wonderful Steinbeck manuscript. Housed in a blue quarter morocco clamshell. Another manuscript draft version of this essay was sold at auction in 2023 for 32500 Euros and was also incomplete. Together with A copy of the The Literary Guild Review Magazine "Wings" which includes the entire essay. In the four present pages he discusses the origins of the stories The Red Pony Tortilla Flat Of Mice and Men and The Moon is Down. The final page which is lacking goes on to discuss Cannery Row and The Pearl. The Manuscript reads: "I have never written a preface nor a comment to one of my books before believing that the work should stand on its own feet even if it's legs ankles were slightly wobbly. When I was asked to comment on the five short novels of this volume my first impulse was to refuse. And then thinking over the things that have happened to these stories since they were written I was taken with the idea that the things that happen to a book are very like those that happen to a man. These stories cover a long period of my life. As each one was finished that part of my life it represented was finished. It is true that while he is doing it the writer and his book are one. When the book is finished it is a kind of death a matter of pain and sorrow to the writer. And then he starts a new book and a new life and if he is growing and changing a new life starts. And the writer like a fickle lover forgets his old love. It is no longer his own- the intimacy and the surprise are gone. So much I knew but I had not thought of the poor little stories thrust out into an unfriendly world to make their way. They have experiences too they grow and change or wane and die just as everyone does. They make friends or enemies and sometimes they waste away from neglect. Remembering the careers of these short novels has been interesting to me. All of the have been experiments. That is why no two of them are remotely alike. And experiments are rarely accepted all at once. My stories have been slow starters almost like shy young men who do not make friends quickly. Indeed most of my books have succeeded without trying in making quick and fierce enemies at first. It is pleasing to me that they do in time make lasting and loyal friends. The Red Pony was written a long time ago when there was desolation in my family. The first death had occurred- and the family which every child believes immortal was shattered. Perhaps this is the first adulthood of any man or woman- the first tortured question why and then acceptance and your child was a man. The Red Pony then was an attempt an experiment if you must to set down loss and acceptance death a the transfiguration the adult mind must create for itself. At that time I had had three books published and all of them had failed to come any where near selling their first editions. The Red Pony could not find a publisher. It came back over and over again until at last a foolishly brave editor bought it for The North American Review and paid 90 dollars for it. This was more money than I thought the world contained. What a great party we had in celebration. The Magazine went broke almost immediately and my story disappeared for a good number of years. That it ever came back is the remarkable thing. But it not only did but it seems to gather friends as it goes. It takes only the tiniest pinch of encouragement to keep a writer going and if he gets none he sometimes learns to feed even on the acid of failure. Tortilla Flat grew out of a reading of the sources of The Arthurian cycle- from Mabinogion Through Geoffrey and through the to Tennyson. I wanted to take the stories of my town of Monterey and cast them into a kind of folklore. The result was Tortilla Flat. It followed the pattern. Publisher after publisher rejected it until Pascal Covici finally published it. But it did have one distinction the others had not. It was not ignored. Indeed the Chamber of Commerce of Monterey fearing for its tourist business issued a statement that the book was a lie and that certainly no such disreputable people lived in that neighborhood. But perhaps the chamber did me a good service for this book sold two editions I think and this was almost more encouragement than I could stand. I was afraid I might get used to such profligacy on the part of the public and I knew it couldn't last. A moving picture company bought it and paid 4000 dollars for it- 3600 came to me. It was a fortune. When a few years later the company fired its editor one of the reasons was that he had bought Tortilla Flat. He bought it for the from the company for the original 4000 and several years later sold it to MGM for 90000 dollars a triumph for me albeit shallow a kind of justification for me and a fortune for the editor. Of Mice and Men was another experiment- an attempt to write a novel in three acts to be played from the lines. I had nearly finished it when my setter pup ate it one night- literally made confetti of it. I had to start fresh. I don't know how close the first and second versions would prove to be. This book had some success but as usual it found its enemies. It was called brutal its characters sub humans its story sadistic and one group found homosexuality in it which puzzled me quite a bit. With rewriting however it did become a play and had some success. There were long books written between these little novel. I think the little ones were exercises for the longer ones. The war came on and I wrote The Moon is Down as a kind of celebration of the durability of democracy. I couldn't have conceived that it would be denounced as almost treason. I had written of Germans as men not super men and this was considered a very weak attitude to take. I couldn't make much sense out of this and it seems." HBS 69082. $10000. n.p. unknown books
1936ref. 69028New York: Covici Friede 1936. Full Description: STEINBECK John. In Dubious Battle. New York: Covici Friede 1936. First edition one of ninety-nine copies signed by the author of which this is number 57. Octavo 8 x 5 3/8 inches; 205 x 137 mm. 349 3 blank pp. With the signed limitation page inserted at rear. Original black cloth over grey buckram boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge dyed red. Some minor rubbing to bottom of spine. Previous owner's ink inscription dated 1940 on half-title. In the original black paper slipcase with paper spine label. Some very minor rubbing to slipcase. A bright fine copy. Goldstone & Payne A5a. HBS 69028. $6500. Covici Friede unknown books
1937ref. 69031New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. Full Description: STEINBECK John. The Red Pony. New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. First edition one of 699 copies signed by John Steinbeck this being number 629. Large octavo 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 251 x 175 mm. 81 1 limitation page pp. Printed on handmade paper by the Pynson Printers New York under the supervision of Elmer Adler. Vignette of a pony in orange and gray on title-page. Original full beige cloth stamped in gray and orange. Vignette of a pony in ornage repeated from the title-page on front cover with date in orange roman numerals below. Spine lettered in yellow. Bottom and fore-edge uncut. With previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Cloth lightly foxed as usual. Still a near fine copy. Housed in publisher's original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label. Label with matching limitation number 629 om spine. Some minor splitting to bottom of case. Still about fine. This story containing three episodes I. The Gift II. The Great Mountains III. The Promise in the life of farm boy Jody Tiflin of the Salinas valley. The story centers on how Jody matures after the loss of his beloved red pony. Goldstone & Payne A9a. HBS 69031. $3000. Covici Friede Publishers unknown books
1974ref. 139926Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1974. First Draft script for an unproduced television movie. Based on John Steinbeck's 1939 novel of the same title and adapted from the screenplay by Nunnally Johnson for the 1940 film. During the Great Depression and dustbowl era a family of tenant farmers living and suffering in Oklahoma and forced to move west abandoning their home. They end up in California with many other "Okies" like them searching for a new future. Peter Knopf is a Emmy-nominated writer best known for his work on "Posse" 1975 "Peter and Paul" 1981 and "Not My Kid" 1985. Set in Oklahoma and California. Green titled wrappers noted as First Draft on the front wrapper dated April 12 1974. Title page present dated April 12 1974 noted as First Draft with credits for novelist Steinbeck screenwriter Knopf screenwriter Johnson and producer Stanley Hough. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1957ref. 154848Stockholm: Svenska Dagbladet 1957. Vintage photograph of John Steinbeck and his wife Elaine leaning out of a train window in Stockholm in 1957. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet crediting photographer Ake Blomquist. Steinbeck would return to Sweden again five years later in 1962 to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature a controversial decision in the eyes of many including Steinbeck himself. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Svenska Dagbladet unknown books
1954ref. 132751954. STEINBECK JOHN. Sweet Thursday. New York: Viking 1954. x 273 p. Cloth spine canted. Dust jacket price-clipped light chipping at spine ends and corners few dampstains. Inscribed on the front endpaper "To --- From George Sonny Boy Velis Monterey Calif July 31-1955. See you on Broadway N.Y." Intermediate edition with red and black title page unstained top edge red dot at lower corner of rear cover and testimonials under the Halsman photo on the dust jacket's rear panel. George "Sonny Boy" Velis operated the restaurant and bar in Monterey that is the subject of the entire chapter 23 in Sweet Thursday as well as a paragraph in Travels with Charley. unknown books
1954ref. 018459The Viking Press 1954. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Price Clipped Jacket.First Issue Jacket. Photo& Signature Back Panel.Great Steinbeck Classic.Sequel To Cannery Row.Beautiful Copy. The Viking Press Hardcover books
1961ref. 018460The Viking Press 1961. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine copy In Like Jacket.1/500 Copies With Black Boards & Acetate Stating Limited Edition In Red.Beautiful Copy.One Of The Author's Lasts Books. This Book Won him the Pulitzer Prize. The Viking Press Hardcover books
1954ref. 377801Salerno Italy: Ente Provinciale per il Turismo 1954. First edition first issue. 30 pp. Yellow printed paper wrappers some wear to wrappers. Interior clean in unrecorded dust jacket with woodcut of "Posetano" on front panel and "Auguri / Dorothy and Truman" printed on the inner flap some light wear along top edge of jacket otherwise its in near fine condition. First edition first issue. 30 pp. This copy specifically states "1954" on the inside front cover and would therefore precede the Italian edition published in 1955 as well as Goldstone & Payne's first English language edition. Variants have been noted see Bradford Morrow's Steinbeck catalogue which bear the date 1954 - whether this represents a different edition or later issue is unclear. Steinbeck's article had appeared in Harper's Bazaar for May 1953 and the Italian translation preceded the English version. This dust jacket is unrecorded. Goldstone & Payne A34b; Morrow 236 Ente Provinciale per il Turismo unknown books
1939ref. 352819New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. 619 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cream pictorial cloth. In original "First Edition" dustjacket faded on spine closed tear to front panel of jacket at bottom. First Edition. 619 pp. 1 vols. 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. Goldstone & Payne A12a The Viking Press unknown books
1964ref. 13677New York: Privately Printed 1964. First Edition one of 200 copies for private distribution. Half-tone portrait. 1 vols. 8vo. Decorated paper boards black morocco spine. Fine copy of a very rare Steinbeck piece. First Edition one of 200 copies for private distribution. Half-tone portrait. 1 vols. 8vo. With a 2pp. essay by Steinbeck about John Emery. Not in Goldstone & Payne Privately Printed 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
1939ref. 326769New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. 619 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth pictorial unclipped dust jacket by Elmer Hader. Near fine copy with tape repairs to the jacket corners and some rubbing along front hinge of jacket. First Edition. 619 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Classic Novel of the Great Depression. Very attractive copy of this 20th-century American highspot. 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. Goldstone & Payne A12a The Viking Press 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
1947ref. 29905Paris 1947. Four strips of teletyped text affixed to "Post Office Overseas Telegram" form received at the Central Telegraph Office in London. 1 vols. 5-3/8 x 7-1/2 inches. Very good. Four strips of teletyped text affixed to "Post Office Overseas Telegram" form received at the Central Telegraph Office in London. 1 vols. 5-3/8 x 7-1/2 inches. While Steinbeck is in Paris on his tour of Europe he wires his friend at the Claridge Hotel in London: "IN REGARD TO STAGE AND SCREEN ANNIE LAURIE IS THE QUEEN GOOD LUCK - JOHN - " Annie Laurie Williams was their agent; at the time Meredith was playing on the London Stage in "Winterset." with: MEREDITH Burgess. Telegram retained copy to Steinbeck from London to Paris at the Hotel Lancaster 8 July 1947: "CANNOT CONTACT CAPA TRIED INCESSANTLY STOP CABLE WHEN POSSIBLE TELEPHONE YOU PASTURES OF HEAVEN DEAL VERY HOT LOVE BURGESS" At the time Steinbeck was working with Capa on stories for the Herald Tribune. unknown books
1947ref. 29899175 East 78 St. New York City 1947. One page in blue ink on recto of one sheet of personal stationery. 1 vols. 10 x 7 inches. Fine. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith. One page in blue ink on recto of one sheet of personal stationery. 1 vols. 10 x 7 inches. A rapid note on the eve of his trip to Europe to his close friends Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard: "Dear Paulette and Buzzy: We're leaving the 20th of June for Paris. We'll be I think at the Hotel Lancaster. If not you can contact us through the Herald Tribune Bureau. Much hurry now and I'm still pretty much crippled. Do you know a dutch painter named Raaul Hynckle sp Since can't pay money now the Dutch publishers want to pay royalties in his work. See you soon John" UNPUBLISHED. unknown books
1964ref. 13330New York: Privately Printed 1964. First Edition one of 200 copies for private distribution. Half-tone portrait. 1 vols. 8vo. Decorated paper boards black morocco spine. Fine copy of a very rare Steinbeck piece. First Edition one of 200 copies for private distribution. Half-tone portrait. 1 vols. 8vo. With a 2pp. essay by Steinbeck about John Emery. Not in Goldstone & Payne Privately Printed unknown books
1946ref. 29904175 East 78th St. New York 1946. 1 p. in ink on recto of a single yellow legal-size ruled note sheet. 1 vols. 14 x 8-1/2 inches. Very good. 1 p. in ink on recto of a single yellow legal-size ruled note sheet. 1 vols. 14 x 8-1/2 inches. Colorful unpublished note from Steinbeck to his friend Burgess Meredith: "Dear Buzz: I've tried to call you several times but your line is either busy or you are out. This devotion has been carried on a coin booth which is little better than the back seat of a packard. We have no phone yet but hope to have one tomorrow or the next day. Mother Marie is building a nest for her new offspring and I am hard at work which immobilizes both of us pretty much. I am going to have lunch with Charlie Lytle remember the Pixie of Park Lane tomorrow May 8 at 21. Maybe you could drop in or maybe you'll be there anyway. I have to ask you something . Meanwhile I'll call you if we get a phone. The hell with the coin box business. John" Provenance: from the Estate of Burgess Meredith unknown books
