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1938ref. 140938149New York: The Viking Press 1938. First Edition. First edition. 303 pp. Original cloth. Small dampstain to top of back board else Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with tears along folds at top of front panel edge-rubbing small closed tear to bottom of back panel spine slightly darkened a few pieces of tape to verso dampstain to verso of back panel. A collection of twelve stories by the chronicler of the rough-and-tumble American West. The Viking Press unknown books
1946ref. 020854Prague: Sfinx 1946. Second Czech Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Dustwrapper designed by Jaroslav váb. Uncommon edition of this winner of the Pulitzer Prize. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Steinbeck on the last page of text located at the foot of the translator's notes in which the translator Vladimír Procházka includes an excerpt from a positive review of the translation: ".in reading this translation we forget that it's a translation. How many translations can we say that about" The inscription is under Procházka's printed name and is to him: "For Vladimir Prochazka/Thank you/John Steinbeck." Procházka a lawyer and communist was forced to withdraw from his political activities during the Nazi occupation and translated THE GRAPES OF WRATH along with works by James Joyce and Bernard Shaw. In 1946 he was elected to parliament as a communist and helped draft the new Czechoslovak constitution. Steinbeck most likely inscribed this on one of his two trips to communist Czechoslovakia or possibly in the U. S. when Procházka was serving as the Czechoslovak ambassador to the United States. Sfinx hardcover books
1942ref. 1278626New York: The Viking Press 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 184pp.; VG/G; spine blue and yellow with yellow lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut '$4.50'; dust jacket has numerous chips including to the top of the front cover top of the rear cover head and tail of spine corners; age-toning to spine rear cover; first printing dust jacket with no printing information on lower rear cover; publishing profits fund is perpetual go to the Air Forces Aid Society; KT Consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #4 . 1278626. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1992ref. 61733New York: Peng/Rand 1992. Reprint. Paperback. New. 90pp. Duodecimo. 19cm. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: Like his father and grandfather before him Kino is a poor diver gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino Juana and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then on a day like any other Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope the promise of comfort and of security. Peng/Rand paperback books
1939ref. 018367The Viking Press 1939. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 4th Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine copy In Like Jacket. Fourth Edition Stated Jacket Also Fine Stated Fourth Printing.Very Rare condition For The Author's Masterpeice. Book Plate Under front Flap.Gorgeous Fresh Condition. The Viking Press Hardcover books
1941ref. 18886New York: The Viking Press 1941. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. First edition first printing of Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts an attractive copy. Octavo 6 vii-x 598pp. Green cloth title stamped in silver on spine and front panel. The first printing with "First Published in December 1941." Top edge dyed pink. Illustrated endpapers with maps of Baja California. Complete with 40 photographic plates 8 in color. In the publisher's first state dust jacket $5.00 on front flap short closed tear along bottom edge of front panel bright illustrations a near fine example. Goldstone & Payne A15b. The Viking Press unknown books
1939ref. 1665624/04/1939. “The undersigned Viking Press Inc. and John Steinbeck hereby sells grants conveys and assigns to the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation…talking motion picture rights…that he may have in and to the original composition entitled “The Grapes of Wrath”…” A unique and compelling piece of American cinematic history <iframe src=""https://player.vimeo.com/video/258864368"" width=""640"" height=""360"" frameborder=""0"" allowfullscreen=""allowfullscreen""></iframe> “The Grapes of Wrath” won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for fiction in 1940 and helped John Steinbeck earn the Nobel Prize awarded him in 1962 which turned on the “keen social perception” in this book. At the time of the Dust Bowl when hundreds of thousands of Americans migrated to the West Coast mainly California in search of a better life Steinbeck was writing a series of seven articles about migrant worker communities for the San Francisco Chronicle. He spent a lot of time getting to know families who lived in various migrant worker camps in towns like Bakersfield and Visalia and was angered and disgusted by the amount of heartbreak and suffering that he witnessed. He channeled those emotions as he wrote his classic - “The Grapes of Wrath”. Published in 1939 by Viking Press “The Grapes of Wrath” vividly portrays life during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in America as it follows a family of Oklahoma tenant farmers driven from their home by drought economic hardship agricultural industry changes and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. The family traveled westward to California seeking jobs land dignity and a future. It explores the strength and goodness of the human spirit in the face of gruesome truly dismal circumstances. This novel had a profound impact in America. Many people applauded Steinbeck for capturing so honestly the lives of migrant farm workers during the Depression and starkly pointing out conditions they faced. There were calls for social action in response. Eleanor Roosevelt took interest and as a result she called for congressional hearings on migrant worker camp conditions. Labor laws were changed. Others accused Steinbeck of being a socialist and of championing leftist beliefs. Confident that the book would be a smash hit Hollywood rushed to make a film on the book even as it first hit the book shops. The film they made “The Grapes of Wrath” is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time. It was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for Twentieth Century Fox directed by John Ford and starred Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards including for Best Picture Actor Fonda Film Editing Sound and Writing. Ford won the Best Director Oscar and actress Darwell won Best Actress for her portrayal of Ma Joad. In 1989 “The Grapes of Wrath” was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation by the Library of Congress for its U.S. National Film Registry as being ""culturally historically or aesthetically significant.” This is the original contract in which Twentieth Century Fox obtained the rights from John Steinbeck and Viking Press to make the film “The Grapes of Wrath”. It is one of the most important if not the most important piece of American film history to ever reach the market. Document signed on Twentieth Century Fox’s own stationery one sheet with text on both sides New York April 24 1939 just days after the novel's initial release. It provides: “…the undersigned Viking Press Inc. and John Steinbeck hereby sells grants conveys and assigns to the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation…the right title and interest of the undersigned throughout the world in and to the silent sound and dialogue and talking motion picture rights…that he may have in and to the original composition entitled “The Grapes of Wrath”…” It identifies the author as John Steinbeck the publisher as Viking Press and gives the copyright date as April 16 1939. Steinbeck and the president of Viking Press Harold Guinzberg have signed at the conclusion on the verso and the contract has been notarized there the notary stating that Steinbeck had personally appeared before her. unknown books
1954ref. 1416572New York: The Viking Press 1954. First Thus Edition. Hardcover. Octavo x 273 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine pictorial blue with off-white and black lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including several instances of chips to the head/tail edges and mild age toning. Boards have moderate wear including cocked spine. Text block has slight plus wear including mild age toning to the fore/tail edges and head edge colored red. First thus edition. NOTE: Shelved in Column L. 1416572. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1947ref. 1416642New York: The Viking Press Inc 1947. First Viking Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 122 pages. In Good plus condition lacking the issued dust jacket. Spine brick red with gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have slight plus wear including slight sunning beige stain to the front and slight rubbing to the edges. Text block has slight wear including age toning to the edges and mild offsetting to the end papers and previous owner's bookplate to the rear pastedown. Frontispiece. Illustrated. First Viking edition. NOTE: Shelved in Column L. 1416642. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press, Inc hardcover books
1984ref. 33331142Covelo California: Carolyn and James Robertson The Yolla Bolly Press 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Wikstrom Karin. One of 260 copies folio size 60 pp. signed by Wallace Stegner and Karin Wikstrom. John Steinbeck 1902-1968 considered "a giant of American letters" was best known for his portrayals of families in California often exploring themes of alienation and injustice through "everyman" characters n. b. info from Wikipedia. "Flight" is a short story originally published in the collection "The Long Valley" on the subject of manhood as the protagonist Pepe strives to fill his father's place. While in town he kills a man and must fllee and his subsequent trials reveal that Pepe is not only "trying to live up to the foolish and romantic ideal of manhood common to his kind but is one of the incarnations of Everyman pursuing the ideals that foolish or not. . .in the end give him stature and dignity" per the afterword. Wallace Stegner 1909-1993 provides an afterword for this edition. Stegner was often called "The Dean of Western Writers"; he was a member of the faculty at Stanford University and founded its creative writing program. The Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford was named in his honour and he is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977. In the afterword Stegner analyses the themes and characters in the story in the context of Steinbeck's other work as well as the literary movement at the time. Included in this publication by The Yolla Bolly Press are woodcuts by Swedish artist Karin Wikstrom b. 1959 who has contributed illustrations for several other Press editions including "The Inland Whale" by Theodora Kroeber and "Zapata" by John Steinbeck. Here her prints evoke a pathos for the tragic fate of the characters in their pursuit of dreams and dignity. ___DESCRIPTION: Full natural linen with wrap-around tan illustration of desert landscape white paper spine label with brown lettering fore-edge uncut tan endpapers title page with orange woodcut by Karin Wikstrom six colour woodcuts by Wikstrom tipped in throughout orange woodcuts by Wikstrom throughout; Goudy Modern type folio size 12 1/4" by 10 1.4" pagination: i-vi 1-39 40-42 43-52 53 1 colophon this no. 161 of 250 numbered copies total edition of 260 signed by Wallace Stegner and Karin Wikstrom on the colophon. Loosely laid into the book is a small note from the publisher regarding variation in handmade books. In a slipcase covered with brown paper. ___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean the corners straight and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; as new; the laid-in note also fine. The slipcase is fine overall strong and sturdy free of splits or tears clean without wear other than a few very light stray marks on one side. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an unusually heavy volume and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. Internationa customers please also note that any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Carolyn and James Robertson, The Yolla Bolly Press hardcover books
1975ref. 537362New York: Viking Press/Compass 1975. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Edited by Robert E. Morsberger. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Trade paperback. Wraps slightly curling away from textblock modest edgewear near fine. The screenplay for the 1952 American Western film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando. Steinbeck used Edgcomb Pinchon's 1941 book Zapata the Unconquerable as a guide. Compass C579. Viking Press/Compass unknown books
1938ref. 58579NY: Viking Press 1938. First Edition first printing. Goldstone-Payne A11a. Steinbeck's first collection of short stories. 8vo. two-toned cloth in dust jacket; 303 pages. Very Good contents clean & tight; spotty light discoloration covers & ink name dated 1938 on front pastedown; bit of darkening spine; little wear & rubbing one-inch tear base of spine repaired internally with clear archival tape; minor tanning spine; price-clipped d/j. Viking Press unknown books
1957ref. 2353587New York: The Viking Press 1957. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. Du Bois William Pene. Book club editon. Jacket and top edge lightly soiled. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1957 Hard Cover. 188 pp. John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippin's wife Queen Marie who 'might have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant'; his uncle a man of dubious virtue; his glamour-struck daughter and her beau the son of the so-called 'egg king' of Petaluma California; and a motley crew of courtiers and politicians guards and gardeners. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. February 27 1902 - December 20 1968 was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men 1937. He wrote a total of twenty-seven books including sixteen novels six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories. In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Viking Press hardcover books
1942ref. 2354024New York: The Viking Press 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. First edition second state printer stated on copyright page error on p. 112 corrected. Very good in good jacket. Fore edge and endpapers lightly foxed jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners jacket flap corners clipped jacket toned. 1942 Hard Cover. 188 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth silver titles. A military novella clearly intended to mirror World War II and the occupation by the Nazis although in this story the occupying nation remains unnamed. It was written to encourage resistance among the oppressed. The Moon Is Down a novel by John Steinbeck fashioned for adaptation for the theatre and for which Steinbeck received the Norwegian King Haakon VII Freedom Cross was published by Viking Press in March 1942. The story tells of the military occupation of a small town in Northern Europe by the army of an unnamed nation at war with England and Russia much like the occupation of Norway by the Germans during World War II. A French language translation of the book was published illegally in Nazi-occupied France by Les Editions de Minuit a French Resistance publishing house. Furthermore numerous other editions were also secretly published across all of occupied Europe including Norwegian Danish Dutch and Italian versions as well as a Swedish version; it was the best known work of U.S. literature in the Soviet Union during the war. Although the text never names the occupying force as German references to 'The Leader' 'Memories of defeats in Belgium and France 20 years ago' clearly suggest it. Written with a purpose to motivate and enthuse the resistance movements in occupied countries the book has appeared in at least 92 editions across the world. The Viking Press hardcover books
1945ref. 124116New York: The Viking Press. Very Good. 1945. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. A Book Club Edition in Very Good condition with soiling to the boards in slipcase ; In The Red Pony John Steinbeck takes readers on a journey of the heart telling the story of a young boy and his faith. J.D. is restless searching for something to believe in. When he finds a red pony in the desert he names her Faith and sets out to find her new home. Along the way J.D. meets a host of colorful characters each of whom has something important to teach him about life. In the end J.D. comes to understand that there is no single path to happiness but that each of us can find meaning in our own lives by following our hearts.A joyous and inspiring story The Red Pony is a timeless classic that will touch the hearts of readers of all ages.; Illustrations; 8vo; 131 pages . The Viking Press hardcover books
1947ref. 124019New York: The Viking Press. Very Good-. 1947. Hardcover. A Very Good- edition with soiling to the board and pages; The Wayward Bus is a novel by American author John Steinbeck. It was published in 1952 and tells the story of a group of migrant workers who are travelling from California to Oregon. The bus becomes lost and is forced to spend the night in a remote location. The passengers gradually become stranded and relationships between them begin to unravel.; 8vo; 312 pages . The Viking Press hardcover books
1957ref. 121118New York: Viking Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. Dust jacket appears near fine though there is some tape and a bit of coloring on the verso; The farcical tale of a French astronomer who by a twist of fate is briefly appointed King of France a true gem unlike Steinbeck's many other titles filled with mirth and humor; 8vo; $50.00 . Viking Press hardcover books
1936ref. 29204New York: Covici Friede Publishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1936. Second Edition. Cloth. The second edition in stunning Fine condition with blue cloth and bright gilt stamping on spine in equally Fine dust jacket with addition of "AUTHOR OF 'MICE AND MEN'" no mention of Covici-Friede on jacket spine and without published price of $2.50. Goldstone/Payne A1c; John Steinbeck's first novel and the only historical novel he ever wrote follows the 1670s fife of Sir Henry Morgan buccaneer with occasional reference to history. He had two driving ambitions: one to possess the beautiful woman called La Santa Roja the other to conquer Panama the "cup of gold."; 8vo; x 269 1 pages . Covici Friede Publishers hardcover books
1995ref. 15970New York: Book-Of-The-Month Club. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. A very beautiful Book-of-the-Month Club edition in Fine condition in alike very bright dustjacket; Steinbeck's powerful novel of Ethan Hawley who struggles to provide for his family. The Great Depression hits his family hard and he must start from the bottom working as a produce market clerk. He feels that he must own up to the name created by his predecessors. He is confronted by opportunities that question his integrity and common sense. Basis for the television movie in 1983 starring Donald Sutherland as Ethan Hawley; 8vo; viii 5 6-311 1 pages . Book-Of-The-Month Club hardcover books
1941ref. 15791New York: Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1941. Cloth. The Book League issue Goldstone/Payne A14b "BOOK LEAGUE" printed at foot of spine of unpriced dust-jacket otherwise as first edition/first printing. Very Good endpages showing offsetting and limited foxing interior Near Fine. Dust-jacket with 1 inch chip to front/spine else Near Fine; The story of the little pueblo of Santiago on the skirts of a hill in the mountains of Mexico. And this is the story of the boy Juan Diego and of his family and of his people who live in the long moment when the past slips reluctantly into the future. Photographs from the motion picture directed by Herbert Kline; 4to; 144 pages . Viking Press hardcover books
1948ref. 1416254New York: The Viking Press 1948. Hardcover. Octavo 220 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is white with blue print. Boards quarter bound with white cloth to spine and blue cloth to boards; wear to spine caps and corners soiling to spine light damp stains to boards. Text block has grey tinted top edge; light tanning to endpapers. Illustrated: b&w photographs. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column K ND-K. 1416254. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1957ref. 55818New York: Viking Press 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Good- to very good condition. Octavo. 188pp. Original half yellow cloth over orange-brown cloth with decorative patterns and orange-brown lettering on spine; in protected original illustrated dustjacket with white black brown and gray lettering on spine. Top edge red. Not price-clipped stating $3.00 on front flap. "The unpredictable Mr. Steinbeck has been having himself a ball with some of his contemporaries. This frothy extravaganza about French politics - and various other matters - is so full of fun and good-natured satire that it almost bubbles over." Publisher. Dustjacket with some light wear along edges some light chipping along top and bottom edges with 1 x 1/4" chip at bottom front cover near foredge; and some light staining in upper foredge corner and light along right half of top back cover. Very light water-staining on front and back cover and at foredge of back flap. Some water staining at top edge. Binding lightly rubbed with small water stains at back and front top edge. Light foxing of endpapers with light water-staining at back endpaper. Block in very good condition. Viking Press hardcover books
1970ref. 50335New York: Limited Editions Club 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. 1363/1500. Signed Fletcher Martin on limitation page. Original light brown half-leather over textured blue cloth in matching slipcase with reverse lettering in red label of spine. Light brown endpapers. Two color half-title. Title page with double-page illustration in color. Illustrated in color by Fletcher Martin. Minor wear with donation stamps on endpapers and half-titles. Library stamp on endpapers and half-title. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1941ref. 323621New York: Viking 1941. First. hardcover. very good/very good-. 136 photographs from the film of the same name. 4to pictorial linen chipped d.w. Book League printed at bottom of spine New York: Viking Press 1941. First edition. The dust wrapper is price-clipped lightly edge-worn and chipped; end-leaves browned. Viking unknown books
1941ref. 47528New York: The Viking Press 1941. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: The Viking Press 1941. First Edition cloth issue. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket with $5.00 price intact; green cloth boards stamped in silver; orange topstain; map endpapers; 598pp. Plates including photographs and drawings some color. Dust jacket worn and creased with chipping along edges and split along bottom third of rear fold. Boards shelfworn with minor bumping to corners. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good in a Good to Very Good dust jacket. Account by Steinbeck and his good friend Edward Ricketts of their six week fishing and boating expedition in the Gulf of California. Goldstone & Payne A15.b. The Viking Press unknown books
