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1962ref. 278063New York: The Viking Press 1962. Softcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in wrappers and near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny stains. One of 3200 copies. A lovely copy. The Viking Press unknown books
1942ref. 54894New York: Viking 1942. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Early reprint. Glue remnants on the front pastedown else fine in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with light wear to the spinal extremities. Viking hardcover books
1942ref. 64701New York: Viking 1942. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition first issue with no mention of the printer on the copyright page and a large period "talk" and "this" on p.112 line 11. Fine in about very good price-clipped dustwrapper with some overall rubbing rubbing and some nicking at the spinal extremities. Viking hardcover books
1949ref. 81303New York: Bantam Books 1949. Unbound. Fine. Color poster for the first Bantam Books paperback edition issued to coincide with the release of the motion picture starring Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum. Approximately 22" x 28". Very slight loss at the bottom edge and a couple of very small tears in the margins else easily fine. Boldly printed reproducing the front cover of the paperback depicting Loy and Mitchum and other images from the film. Very scarce. Bantam Books unknown books
1948ref. 81304New York: Bantam Books 1948. Unbound. Fine. Color poster for the first Bantam Books paperback edition issued to coincide with the release of the motion picture starring Pedro Armendáriz and María Elena Marqués. Approximately 22" x 28". About fine. Boldly printed the poster reproduces the front wrap of the paperback against a background of images of Armendáriz and Marqués from the film. Very uncommon. Bantam Books unknown books
ref. 06573New York: The Viking Press 1938. Steinbeck's Salinas Stories - A Cornerstone Collection First Edition in Exceptional Condition STEINBECK John. The Long Valley. New York: The Viking Press 1938. First edition. Octavo 8 x 5 inches; 203 x 127 mm. 1-8 9-303 1 blank pp. Publisher's quarter light tan buckram over orange cloth boards spine lettered in red top edge stained red. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A superb copy of The Long Valley an important early collection by John Steinbeck that brings together some of his finest short fiction much of it set in the Salinas Valley of California. The volume includes such notable stories as The Chrysanthemums The White Quail and The Red Pony in episodic form each reflecting Steinbeck's deep engagement with landscape isolation and the emotional lives of ordinary people. Published just one year before The Grapes of Wrath this collection marks a crucial moment in Steinbeck's development demonstrating his growing command of narrative form and thematic depth. The stories reveal in concentrated form many of the concerns that would define his major novels - loneliness the fragility of dreams and the tension between human aspiration and environmental constraint. The first edition is increasingly difficult to obtain in such fresh condition particularly with the dust jacket intact and unrestored. A cornerstone Steinbeck title here preserved in an unusually fine state-an essential addition to any serious collection of twentieth-century American literature. Goldstone & Payne A11a. New York: The Viking Press, 1938 unknown books
1968ref. 1418562Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1968. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xxii 559 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's navy blue leather with gilt lettering to spine. Mild general shelf wear. Textblock sunken. Edges of textblock gilt lightly worn on bottom edge and scratched on fore edge. With silk endpapers and a silk ribbon bookmark. Interior pages clean. Note from the publisher laid in. Shelved in Easton Press. 1418562. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover books
1939ref. 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
1940ref. 021966New York: Limited Editions Club 1940. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. No mottling of the rawhide which is typical for this title and it remains supple with the silver lettering clear. Both books are very tight and unread. About Fine in a Good slipcase with the bottom edge split and the top edge partially so. Thomas Hart Benton. Two quarto 7-1/2" x 10-1/4" volumes bound in decorated grass cloth boards with rawhide spines. Designed by George Macy with introductions by Joseph Henry Jackson and Thomas Craven. The First Illustrated Edition of this Pulitzer Prize winner with 67 ORIGINAL TWO-COLOR LITHOGRAPHS black and yellow made on zinc plates by Thomas Hart Benton and printed by George Miller. Copy #35 of only 1146 printed SIGNED by the illustrator. Laid in is a printed note from the publisher about this most unusual binding. One of the most desirable books of the press because of the combination of a smaller than normal printing a popular author and Pulitzer Prize-winning book first published only the year before beautiful lithographs by Benton and an attractive and unusual binding. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
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
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
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
1939ref. 1287161939. First Edition. STEINBECK John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking 1939. Octavo original pictorial beige cloth illustrated endpapers original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $28500.First edition first issue of Steinbeck's most important novel his searing masterpiece of moral outrage and ""intense humanity"" winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize.""It is a 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 ultimatumÉ Steinbeck has written a novel from the depths of his heart with a sincerity seldom equaled"" Peter Monro Jack. ""The Grapes of Wrath is the kind of art that's poured out of a crucible in which are mingled pity and indignationÉ Its power and importance do not lie in its political insight but in its intense humanityÉ It is the American novel of the season probably the year possibly the decade"" Clifton Fadiman. First issue with ""First Published in April 1939"" on copyright page and first edition notice on front flap of dust jacket. Goldstone & Payne A12a. Salinas Public Library 29. Bruccoli & Clark I:354. Slight discoloration to cloth along spine joints much less than typical; jacket bright and beautiful with only faintest toning along top margin. A stunning copy most rare in this condition. hardcover books
1976ref. 84977South San Francisco: Manroot 1976. First edition. 30 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and near fine unprinted vellum paper dust jacket with light wear along the top edge. Response by Robert Peters. One of 250 numbered copies on Antique laid paper. Original prospectus laid in. Young 3624. South San Francisco: Manroot, hardcover books
1937ref. 79090NY: Covici Friede 1937. First edition first issue. 186 pp. Light offsetting and paperclip imprint to first leaf else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with tanned spine small chips to tips of flap folds and base and crown of spine and one short closed tear to front panel. NY: Covici Friede unknown books
1941ref. 83761NY: Viking 1941. First edition. 143 pp. A few spots of foxing to page edges else near fine in very good dust jacket with toning to spine and rear panel and light overall edgewear NY: Viking unknown books
