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1939Best.-Nr. 11373NO RIDERS in The Saturday Review of Literature for April 1 1939 first edition near fine in pictorial wraps. NO RIDERS is an excerpt from the soon to be published THE GRAPES OF WRATH. The Saturday Review of Literature paperback books
1939Best.-Nr. 12536THE GRAPES OF WRATH Heinemann 1939 first English edition near fine in a vg/near fine dust-wrapper with some light tanning to the dust-wrapper spine and rear dust-wrapper panel. Pulitzer Prize winner. Heinemann unknown books
1979Best.-Nr. 569214Logan Iowa: The Perfection Form Company 1979. Softcover. Fine. First separate edition originally published in The Portable Steinbeck. 12mo. 32pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine. Published for educational purposes very uncommon. The Perfection Form Company unknown books
2025Best.-Nr. 48193Irvine CA: Suntup Editions 2025. Fine/Fine. Irvine CA: Suntup Editions 2025. Limited Artist Edition of 500 copies signed by James Ransome at colophon. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; quarter cloth binding with Bugra Archive sides; 124pp. Color illustrations printed giclée on Hahnemühle Bugra; publisher's bookmark laid in. Housed in publisher's cloth covered slipcase with ends in a complimentary color. An unread Fine copy. Suntup Editions unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 2606004Viking Press 1939. first. hardcover. fine/very good. First edition with "First Published In April 1939" stated on copyright page and first edition dust jacket slug on front flap. Book fine some discoloration to end papers. Dust jacket very good some wear and tear rubbing and chipping tears to upper and lower right of spine and upper front hinge panel tanning two bookstore stickers to rear flap. Comes in supplied slipcase. Viking Press unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 547713Novi Sad: Forum 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later Hungarian edition. Translated by Vajda Gábor. Cover by Lalicki V. Munkája. Small octavo. 223 1 pp. Neat inked signature on title page. Binding very slightly cocked with a bit of wear at the corners and one tiny tear at the topedge of the lower board very good or better in a moderately worn very good dust jacket with several nicks and tiny tears. OCLC locates an earlier Hungarian edition of Once There Was a War by this translator published by Budapest Európa in 1961. Forum hardcover books
2018Best.-Nr. 71432New York: Peng/Rand 2018. Reprint. Paperback. New. 104pp. Duodecimo. 19cm. Illustrated wraps. Peng/Rand paperback books
1937Best.-Nr. 100479New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First edition. Near fine in a price-clipped good or better dustwrapper with some chipping near the bottom of the front flap fold and a large but faint dampstain. An uncommon play adapted by Steinbeck from his own novel. Steinbeck's stage adaptation condenses his novella into a three-act tragedy ideally suited to theatrical presentation. The play's dialogue-driven format strips away narrative contemplation rendering each character's thwarted ambitions through stark unadorned exchanges that intensify the work's central themes: the impossibility of economic independence during the Depression the profound isolation persisting within communal spaces and the brutal incompatibility between human vulnerability and a system demanding complete self-sufficiency. The inexorable march toward Lennie's death demonstrates how certain lives become expendable when they cannot conform to society's demands. Covici-Friede unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 178115New York: Viking 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by William Pene du Bois. Very good. Book has writing throughout it light brown stains inside front and back cover cover is rubbed and worn around edges. Viking hardcover books
1942Best.-Nr. 252623New York: Viking 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover with similar dust jacket. First edition. 2nd state. Text clean. Lacks the period on page 112. Former owner's name taped inside front cover. Clean blue cloth cover. Dustwrapper price clipped. Dustwrapper spine brown. A couple small tears on edges of dust jacket. Viking hardcover books
1957Best.-Nr. 166228New York: Viking 1957. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by William Pene du Bois. Very good. Top corners slightly bent. Edges of spine slightly bumped. Spine slightly brown. Viking unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 173542New York: Viking 1957. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Corners slightly rubbed. Edges of spine slightly bumped. Spine brown. Viking unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 181985New York: Viking 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good minus Clean text with lightly discolored edges and end pages cloth covers are fading gold stamped mild soil on spine cloth light wear on cloth corners. Viking hardcover books
1942Best.-Nr. 174429New York: Viking 1942. Very Good. First/2nd state. Very good minus. Silver stamped lettering on cloth spine cloth corners rubbed slightly text clean end pages browned. Viking unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 236178New York: Viking 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in an about Very good dust jacket. Pages very light brown from age. Corners slightly bent. Edges of spine slightly bumped. Edges of dust jacket worn and torn. 2 inche piece missing from top edge of front dust jacket. Dustwrapper brown and shelf rubbed. Viking hardcover books
1947Best.-Nr. 182298New York: Viking 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. Book club. Very good. Pages slightly brown. Corners rubbed and bent. Edges of cover spine slightly bumped. Stain on back cover. Viking hardcover books
1963Best.-Nr. 197701New York: Bantam 1963. Very Good. Later. Very good. Browning cover lightly rubbed. Bantam unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 172240New York: Viking 1942. Very Good. Second edition. Very good minus. The spine is faded and the corners show very slight wear. Viking unknown books
1996Best.-Nr. 101956NY:: Library of America. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 1883011159 . Library of America number 86. Stated first printing. About fine in like dust jacket. Sewn-in ribbon bookmark. ; 1034 pages . Library of America, hardcover books
1984Best.-Nr. 15485Covelo: Yolla Bolly Press 1984. First edition thus. hardcover. A near fine copy slightly darkened at spine a wonderful example of a fine press production. Karin Wikstrom. 4to. A short story by John Steinbeck with an afterword by Wallace Stegner. Limited edition being one of only ten lettered presentation copies 'H' signed by Stegner and Karin Wikstrom who illustrated the story with six color woodblocks. Issued as volume number two in the 'California Writers of the Land' series. First published in Steinbecks collection The Long Valley. It appears in the ledger notebook under the title "Man Hunt". The story outlines a young man Pepé who is sent into town by his mother. She says he is not yet a man. While he is gone Pepé kills a man and after his return he is forced to flee. Cloth with slipcase issued sans dust jacket. Yolla Bolly Press unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 56010NY: Avon Publishing Company 1944. Contains Hemingway's "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and John Steinbeck's "Nothing So Monstrous. 8vo. printed wraps; 162 pages. Very Good covers nice; contents clean & tight. Avon Publishing Company unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. ST18154New York: The Viking Press 1939. FIRST EDITION First Printing with the words "First Published in April 1939" printed on the copyright page. 210 x 135 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 3/8". 3 p.l. 619 pp. Publisher's pictorial linen endpapers printed with the sheet music for "Battle Hymn of the Republic." In the original unclipped dust jacket displaying the $2.75 price and "First Edition." In a fine modern blue calf clamshell box. Goldstone-Payne A12.a. A PRISTINE COPY. Published when America was still deep in the Great Depression "The Grapes of Wrath" is a novel detailing the heartbreak of rural dispossession and a work that in the words of ANB "captured the decade's angst as well as the nation's legacy of fierce individualism visionary prosperity and determined westward movement." In citing it as one of the "Books that Shaped America" the Library of Congress noted "Few novels can claim that their message led to actual legislation but 'The Grapes of Wrath' did just that. Its story of the travails of Oklahoma migrants . . . ignited a movement in Congress to pass laws benefiting farmworkers. When Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962 the committee specifically cited this novel as one of the main reasons for the award." The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and was printed in a large press run making it readily available at the time and ever since. But the present unsurpassably fine copy of Steinbeck's greatest work is almost literally from a time capsule: it is one of a dozen or so copies discovered in a warehouse in the 1980s still in their unopened boxes from Viking Press. While the copies at the bottom of the box had suffered some water damage those in the upper layers like the present one look unchanged from the day they were packed by the publisher. While there are numerous copies of this book currently on the market the condition here sets it far above the competition. It is certainly the finest copy of any important modern first edition we have ever offered for sale. The Viking Press unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 32603New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1935. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1935. First Edition one of 500 copies in printed wrappers. Octavo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers illustrated by Ruth Gannett French flaps retaining original price $2.50; viii9-317pp.; illus. throughout. Rubbing to edges with a few minor nicks and creases; spine sunned but still retaining some color; 2" split at base of upper spine edge. Binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good well-preserved copy of an important Steinbeck title following Danny and his knights of the round table as they drink sing and brawl their way through the worst years of the Depression around Monterrey California. Adorned with atmospheric illustrations by Ruth Gannett the genius author-illustrator of the children's series My Father's Dragon 1948. Goldstone & Payne A4a. Covici Friede Publishers unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 005286New York: The Viking Press 1939 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition book with 3rd printing dust jacket. "First Published In April 1939" stated on copyright page. Book very good with a some foxing on covers paste-downs and end papers; some foxing and soiling also at page ends. DJ is from third printing and in good condition significant tear and crease near front hinge with pieces missing; also creased on spine and on back with two small pieces missing. DJ price reads "$2.75" on front flap. New York: The Viking Press, 1939 hardcover books
1935Best.-Nr. 620622New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Photoplay edition. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. Slight wear on the corners and some fading on the topstain else near fine in a very good dust jacket with shallow chips creasing and some fading. Movie tie-in for the 1942 film starring Spencer Tracy Hedy Lamarr John Garfield Frank Morgan Akim Tamiroff and Sheldon Leonard. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
