STEINBECK, JohnABAA
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1942ref. 541006New York: The Viking Press 1942. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 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 modestly spine-toned near fine price-clipped dust jacket. The first issue is increasingly uncommon. The Viking Press hardcover books
1946ref. 547830Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendorf N.V. 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Dutch edition. Translated by Fred. Sterneberg. Jacket by I. Spreekmeester. Cloth and papercovered boards. Binding a bit cocked and lightly foxed a bit of interior tanning very good in foxed good only dust jacket with a short creased tear on the cover a toned spine and several small nicks and tears. Van Holkema & Warendorf N.V. hardcover books
1970ref. 532078Aptos California: Printed at the Grace Hoper Press for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe & Zamorano clubs 1970. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by James D. Hart. Quarto. 16pp Sewn printed wrappers. Faint toning on front wrap else about fine copy. Limited to 150 copies. (Printed at the Grace Hoper Press for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe & Zamorano clubs unknown books
1950ref. 469608Munchen: Bayerischer Schulbuch 1950. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition thus with this title. 12mo. 70 2pp. Illustrated wrappers. Owner name and school stamp both on titlepage Lightly rubbed else near fine. Text book for German children with a German and English glossary. Bayerischer Schulbuch unknown books
1956ref. 439783New York: Viking Press 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in attractive very good dustwrapper with some modest tears at the extremities. Musical play based on John Steinbeck's novel Sweet Thursday. Viking Press hardcover books
1951ref. 503341New York: A.I.G.A. 1951. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 16mo. 58pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Modest edgewear a bit musty very good or better. 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
1960ref. 527996New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Nathaniel Benchley. Errata slip affixed on the title page correcting Mel Brooks as the author of "Death to a Salesman." Octavo. xv 304pp. A near fine copy with lightly bumped corners in very good dust jacket with moderately rubbed front panel spine is faded as usual due to color of printing on spine. Contains the first book appearance of "On the Sidewalk after Reading at Long Last 'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac" by John Updike Roberts B4; this piece was also printed in 1960 in Parodies. An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm-And After. Compiled. by Dwight MacDonald. Additional contributions by John Steinbeck E.B. White Edmund Wilson James Thurber and more. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1956ref. 501732Paris: Rene Julliard 1956. Softcover. Near Fine. First trade edition with no equivalent American edition. Translated by Jean-Francois Rozan. Octavo. 160pp. Yellow pictorial wrappers. Slightly spine cocked else near fine. Rene Julliard unknown books
1956ref. 501731Paris: Rene Julliard 1956. Softcover. Very Good. First trade edition with no equivalent American edition. Translated by Jean-Francois Rozan. Octavo. 160pp. Yellow pictorial wrappers. Small light smudge on front wrap else a very good or better copy. Rene Julliard unknown books
1960ref. 342785Chicago: Esquire Inc 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. 12mo. 224pp. Perfect bound wrappers. Slightly rubbed else fine. Features a four-page correspondence between John Steinbeck and Adlai Stevenson titled "Our 'Rigged' Morality. Esquire Inc unknown books
1970ref. 315162Aptos California: Roxburghe & Zamorano Club 1970. Softcover. Fine. First edition. An Introduction by James D. Hart. Quarto. Facsimile frontispiece. Original buff wrappers. Paper flaw on front wrap looks a little wrinkled else fine. One of 150 copies printed at the Grace Hoper Press. Goldstone & Payne A45a. (Roxburghe & Zamorano Club) unknown books
1990ref. 70606Covelo CA: The Yolla Bolly Press 1990. Paperback. Near fine. Very thin quarto 29.5 cm in fibrous handmade paper wraps with sewn binding. Prospectus for the limited edition of Zapata issued in November 1991. With one full-page illustration reproducing the artwork of San Francisco artist Karin Wikström. The Yolla Bolly Press paperback books
1982ref. 546057United States: MGM / United Artists 1982. Unbound. Fine. Poster. Measuring approximately 14" x 36". Gently rolled a couple faint creases at the edge else about fine. Advertising poster for the 1982 American film directed by David S. Ward in his directorial debut starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger. Adapted from John Steinbeck's novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday. MGM / United Artists unknown books
1957ref. 546013United States: Twentieth Century Fox 1957. Unbound. Very Good. Poster. Measuring approximately 30" x 41". Gently rolled with an old fold crease faint creases with short tears at the edges small dampstains on top half writing and tape remnants on verso very good. Advertising poster for the 1957 American film directed by Victor Vicas and starring Joan Collins Jayne Mansfield Dan Dailey and Rick Jason. Based on Steinbeck's novel of the same name. Twentieth Century Fox unknown books
1941ref. 431601New York: The Viking Press 1941. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Original natural linen with green pictorial stamping on front board and letters on spine. Illustrated with 136 black and white photographs from the film. A trifle cocked else fine in very slightly age-toned and rubbed dustwrapper with the lettering a little out of register. A nicer than usual copy. The Viking Press hardcover books
1954ref. 30293New York: Viking 1954. First edition. Yellow cloth fine copy in lightly used price-clipped dust jacket. Viking unknown books
1940ref. 20299New York: The Limited Editions Club 1940. First edition. Wrappers nice. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1942ref. 20282New York: Viking 1942. First edition. Blue cloth. Slight lean a very good copy in lightly worn dust jacket. First printing with the large period on p. 112 and with no indication of printer on the copyright page. Viking unknown books
ref. JD29403London Heinemann 1939 first British edition first printing dust jacket. Hardcover. With the very scarce wrap-around band noting this was a Book Society Fiction Choice this copy with a small slip affixed to the title page that is Inscribed by John Steinbeck "For L. Downing/John Steinbeck" Goldstone & Payne A12b Morrow 108. Near fine. London, Heinemann, 1939, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover books
ref. JD29431NY Viking 1962 first edition wrappers. Softcover. Frontispiece photo portrait of Steinbeck one of 3200 copies printed Goldstone & Payne A40a Morrow 269 this copy Inscribed by Steinbeck on the title page "For Lou Robinson/with pleasure/John Steinbeck" very scarce thus. Fine. NY, Viking, 1962, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. paperback books
ref. JD26993NY Robert O. Ballou 1933 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. First issue of his third book one of only 598 copies actually bound and sold Goldstone & Payne A3a Morrow 22 endpapers title page vignette and dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine this book is Steinbeck at his most powerful and his most mystical. Black top edge stain still very black book cloth somewhat mottled jacket with one short tear this is a very pleasing and attractive copy of a very scarce book. NY, Robert O. Ballou, 1933, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover books
1939ref. 19471New York: Viking Press 1939. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. Original brown publisher’s pictorial cloth with illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped with “First Edition” on lower corner of front flap. Copyright page states “First Published in April 1939.” Includes like new folded advertisement booklet entitled “What America thinks of The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck” by Newbegin’s Book Shop San Francisco. Dust jacket a bit ragged on top edges with minor rubbing on joints but otherwise very good; book in fine condition. First edition first issue; a fine copy of Steinbeck’s most iconic novel. One of the most important pieces of twentieth-century American literature Steinbeck’s colorful dialogue and haunting prose brought global attention to the plight of the farmers and migrant workers of the Dust Bowl. Almost one hundred years later the novel’s central themes of economic disparity labor rights climate change and religious conflict will still resonate with modern readers. This is an extremely crisp near pristine first edition copy. As a young man Steinbeck 1902-1968 worked with migrant laborers on the farms of his native central California coast an experience which became a rich source of inspiration for several of his novels and short stories. Goldstone A12. Viking Press unknown books
1975ref. 107282Franklin Center:: Franklin Library. Near Fine. 1975. Hardcover. 1940 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction. Limited edition. Octavo fully bound in red leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Near fine.; 589 pages . Franklin Library, hardcover books
1940ref. 5824San Francisco Calif: Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte 1940. Large octavo 62 pages. Index. Illustrated; printed throughout in black and pale brown. Second Edition originally published under the slightly different title Famous Recipes of Famous People and issued by the Hotel del Monte without Sunset Magazine in 1936. A compilation of celebrity recipes with the recipes attributed to the famous including: Gertrude Stein John Steinbeck Walt Disney J. Edgar Hoover Rube Goldberg and many others. Also includes a section of recipes of well-known chefs of the day with a bias toward California Hotels and the west in general as well as a short section of recipes from the Hotel Del Monte. The playful illustrations by Sinclair Ross alternately reference Hollywood and the frontier West. Endpapers reproduce the autographs of many of the celebrities featured in the book. Publisher's gilt-decorated cream-colored boards near fine. In clean and bright yellow dust jacket printed in blue and orange but with several good-sized chips to the front and rear panels. Dust jacket is good only. Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte hardcover books
1996ref. 597838New York: The Library of America 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Notes by Robert DeMott. Special consultant for this volume Elaine A. Steinbeck. Octavo. 1067pp. Tan cloth. Corners lightly bumped else fine in fine dust jacket. The Library of America hardcover books
