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ref. JD30875NY Robert M. McBride 1929 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book first issue with top edge stained and with the final black leaf present with the rare colorful pirate dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine one of only 1537 copies published when Steinbeck was 27 years old and just two weeks before the 1929 stock market crash a historical novel about the pirate Henry Morgan rendered in a purple prose manner quite unlike his realistic descriptive storytelling that followed Goldstone & Payne A1a Morrow 1. Very good book in a jacket with the usual spine color fade with chipping to top and bottom of spine jacket with internal tape reinforcement. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1929, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover books
ref. JD30882NY Covici Friede 1936 first edition. With publisher's black paper-covered slipcase with orange spine label this is No. 23 of just 99 copies Signed by Steinbeck this is also the best strike novel of the 20th Century Steinbeck's best friend and philosophical mentor Ed Ricketts makes his first of many appearances in a Steinbeck novel he appears as Doc Burton Steinbeck would use Ricketts and their shared philosophy in many other novels this was also Steinbeck's first foray into agricultural politics through his literature which ultimately led to his writing The Grapes of Wrath the use of another character in In Dubious Battle a communist would lead to the untrue allegation that Steinbeck was a communist that allegation would have negative effects on Steinbeck's life from then to the end of his life in 1968 Goldstone & Payne A5a Morrow 43. Bookplate else as fine as the day this book was made in a as usual very good original slipcase. NY, Covici Friede, 1936, first edition. unknown books
ref. JD30040NY Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn 1947 first edition wrappers. Softcover. First and only edition No. 7 of only 60 copies printed by Ward Ritchie with its original white paper envelope which is also No. 7 the first 10 copies went to Steinbeck with the remainder going to the Cohns House of Books for Christmas gift presentation this elusive "A" item is a letter from Steinbeck to Arnold Gingrich editor of "Esquire" thanking him for sending a watch as a gift the letter is full of Steinbeck's typical humor noting that he had expected a watch when he graduated from high school but none was forthcoming and since he didn't actually graduate from Stanford University he likewise hadn't received a watch as a gift Goldstone & Payne A26a Morrow 199 and 200. Fine. NY, Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn, 1947, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. paperback books
1933ref. 1278555New York: Covici Friede 1933. First Edition Second Issue. Hardcover. 8vo. 325pp.; VG/VG; spine green and tan with green lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut '$2.50'; dust jacket has slight sunning to spine small chipping to head and tail of spine corners; small rip to middle of upper front edge lower front fore corner; pages slightly age-toned; top edge of text block stained green faded; Steinbeck's third novel; KT consignment. Shelved in Case 13. 1278555. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Covici Friede hardcover books
1957ref. 1401841New York: The Viking Press 1957. Hardcover. Octavo 188 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is white with blue and red print. Dust jacket in mylar; light edge wear toning to spine peripheral toning remainder of label on front panel of mylar. Price unclipped: “$3.00”. Boards quarter bound with yellow cloth to spine and pink cloth to boards; light wear to spine caps soiling to cloth. Text block has tan tinted top edge; name in ink on front flyleaf tanning to endpapers. Illustrated: b&w drawings. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401841. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1976ref. 1401842New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1976. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo xiii 363 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is yellow with black ad red print. Dust jacket in mylar; light edge wear and peripheral toning. Price unclipped: “$10.00”. Boards in purple cloth; light wear to spine caps. Text block has yellow tinted top edge; light spotting to edges. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401842. FP New Rockville Stock. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1942ref. 1401844New York: The Viking Press 1942. Hardcover. Octavo 188 pages. In Fair plus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is blue with white print. Dust jacket in mylar; light edge wear. Price unclipped: “$2.00. Boards in blue cloth; light wear to bottom edge. Text block has tanning to endpapers cracked front hinge. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401844. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1961ref. 1401845London: Heinemann 1961. Hardcover. Octavo 365 pages. In Good condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine is brown with orange and white print. Dust jacket in mylar b&w portrait of author on rear panel; light edge wear. Price unclipped: “18s net”. Boards in purple cloth; slight wear to spine caps. Text block has spotting to top edge. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401845. FP New Rockville Stock. Heinemann hardcover books
1954ref. 1401846New York: The Viking Press 1954. Hardcover. Octavo x 273 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is blue with black and white print. Dust jacket in mylar b&w portrait of author on rear panel; light edge wear. Price unclipped: “$3.50”. Boards in tan cloth red print; slight wear to spine caps toning to spine cocked spine. Text block has pink tinted top edge; name in ink on front flyleaf tanning to endpapers. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401846. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1945ref. 1401154New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Thus Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo 131 pages. In Very Good condition. Tan slipcase has moderate wear including slight age toning and chipping to the edges. Bound in the publisher's beige cloth bearing gilt lettering to the green spine. Boards have very slight wear including minor edge wear. Text block has slight wear including slight age toning to the interior. Edges colored green. Pictorial end papers. Illustrated. First illustrated edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column L ND-L. 1401154. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1984ref. 595412Salinas California: The Valley Guild 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 223pp. Illustrated from color photographs. Just a touch of edgewear else fine in a toned and lightly soiled very good dust jacket with moderate rubbing a few bumps and tiny tears. The Valley Guild hardcover books
1990ref. 593051New York: Mallard Press 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Pages lightly toned else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a faint crease on the front panel. A collection of 24 crime stories by: Margery Allingham Agatha Christie Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dashiell Hammett P.D. James John D. MacDonald John Steinbeck Aldous Huxley W. Somerset Maugham Dorothy L. Sayers Avram Davidson Edgar Allan Poe G. K. Chesterton and more. Mallard Press hardcover books
1955ref. 582622New York: Avon Publications 1955. Softcover. Very Good. First edition paperback original. Moderate edgewear creased spine very good. Contributions by John Steinbeck Norman Mailer Budd Schulberg Truman Capote William Sansom Herman Wouk Robert Penn Warren and others. Avon #T-109. Avon Publications unknown books
1954ref. 33412London: William Heinemann Ltd 1954. Very Good/Good. London: William Heinemann Ltd 1954. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; viii264pp. Jacket margins quite chipped and worn with losses at spine ends additional small loss at bottom edge of rear panel not approaching text or image spine cloth sunned where jacket has suffered losses spine a bit cocked; a Very Good copy in a Good only example of the jacket. Goldstone A33c. William Heinemann Ltd unknown books
1961ref. 67648New York: Viking 1961. Hardcover. Fine. First edition limited issue one of 500 copies. Fine lacking the dust jacket and printed acetate overjacket. Although not called for this copy is Inscribed by the author: "For Oliver H. Clark from John Steinbeck." Scarce thus. Viking hardcover books
1936ref. 56139New York: Pynson Printers 1936. Hardcover. Fine. First Separate Edition originally published in The Pastures of Heaven 1932. An unusually fine fresh copy with the corners square and virtually unrubbed. Goldstone notes that the paper supply allowed only 370 copies to be printed. Published for subscribers to use as Christmas gifts the colophon was customized with the subscriber's name following "made by the Pynson Printers of New York at the request of blank for presentation to blank." Fifty copies were so designated for Elmer Adler 100 for Frederick B. Adams Jr. 150 for Ben Abramson 50 for Edwin J. Beinecke and 20 for antiquarian bookseller Howard Mott although evidently fewer were issued with his name; only one is known. Unknown to Goldstone there were six copies for Steinbeck as well. This copy has the subscriber's name The Colophon handwritten in for presentation to the noted printer Carl P. Rollins. Additionally this copy is Signed by the subscribers Adams and Adler as well as by bookman John T. Winterich. All three were editors of The Colophon a magazine for book collectors. Rollins was the first "University Printer" at Yale. Goldstone A2f. Pynson Printers hardcover books
ref. 2505016Viking Press. later. hardcover. very good. Later printing. SIGNED by Steinbeck on front free end paper very light penciled signature. Book very good some rubbing couple of small stains to top edge. Comes in custom-made slipcase. Viking Press unknown books
ref. JD29396n.p. NY n.p. The Viking Press n.d. 1944 first edition wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy an uncorrected galley proof bound in plain unprinted tannish wrappers printed on rectos only a very scarce advanced state of this minor or not so minor Steinbeck masterpiece whose themes of death and loneliness are masked by its surface layer of humor all the more rare in that this is an Author Presentation Copy Inscribed by Steinbeck to the best man at his second marriage Howard O. Hunter who was the Works Progress Administration WPA commissioner in the early 1940s under the FDR administration Steinbeck and his second wife Gwen Conger were married March 29 1943 just 11 days after receiving his final divorce decree from his first wife Carol Steinbeck has Inscribed the first preliminary as follows "For Howard/who really/belongs in/Cannery Row/John Steinbeck/last night in New York 1944" this galley lacks all the preliminaries found in the 1945 published version such as half titles title page copyright page dedication page etc. although not specifically cited in Goldstone & Payne there is a notation under G&P A22a that "a copy of the unrevised galley proofs is in the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas" see Morrow 172 that copy with a yellow label on front giving publication date and price that is not on this copy--the Morrow copy was not signed or inscribed now housed in a beautiful custom clamshell case with leather spine laid in loosely is a letter of provenance from Ellen Leonard who was given this proof by Hunter's wife Edna. This was bound for in-house use by Viking and not for sale thus it was never meant to be in great condition even when new spine ends are chipped there is offsetting from printed pages onto the previous verso some pages are becoming dis-bound. n.p. (NY), n.p. (The Viking Press), n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. paperback books
1937ref. 24508New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First edition second printing. Hardcover. Orig. tan cloth backstrip and front cover decorated and lettered. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 186. 19 x 12.5 cm. A riveting tale of friendship dreams and the struggles faced by people during the Great Depression. Their journey underscores the challenges of the era and explores themes of loyalty ambition and the human yearning for a place to call home. This work was one of the most commonly censored and prohibited books because of the references to racism and offensive language. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A7b. Covici-Friede hardcover books
1984ref. 66616Covelo CA: Yolla Bolly Press 1984. Paperback. Near Fine. Karin Wikström. 14pp. Slim quarto 31.5cm. Beige printed wraps. Mild soiling particularly to rear wrap. In 1984 the Yolla Bolly Press published a limited edition of John Steinbeck's powerful short story "Flight" and Wallace Stegner's afterword complete with six color woodcuts by Karin Wilkström. This abridged presentation edition has isolated the afterword and features one color woodcut. Yolla Bolly Press paperback books
1929ref. 1244328New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1929. First edition. Octavo. Hardcover in original yellow cloth; no dust jacket. Author's first book one of only 1537 printed. Boards soiled; rubbed at extremities; spine sunned; foxing to endpapers; foxing and water damage to first few pages of text; piece missing from page one not affecting text. Scattered foxing throughout. Good copy only. KT Consignment. Shelved in Case 13. 1244328. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Robert M. McBride & Company unknown books
1947ref. 002560Praha Prague: Jaroslav Podrouzek 1947. First Edition. Very good. First edition 1 of 5000 copies; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 2; 5-225 5; plain brown wraps; pictorial DJ; light wear to tips of spine and corners; signatures loose as issued tucked into each other; hinges a bit weak; very good condition. Jacket design and typography by B. Forman; small nicks to edges; in good to very good condition. First Czech edition of Steinbeck's arguably first commercial and critical success it was released 2 years after the original edition was published in the United States. OCLC lists 3 copies at institutions; none other in the American trade as of December 2019. Jaroslav Podrouzek paperback books
1951ref. 602948New York: A.I.G.A. 1951. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 16mo. 58pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Rubbing at the edges very good. 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
1966ref. 198409New York: Bantam Books Inc / Bantam Pathfinder Editions 1966. Softcover. Good. Later printing. Mass market paperback. Pages and wrappers age-toned chip on bottom corner on page 61 not affecting text small sticker on rear wrapper good only. Bantam Books Inc / Bantam Pathfinder Editions unknown books
1947ref. 249591New York: Viking 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Book club. Very good Hardcover in Good Dustwrapper Book Club cloth shows rubbing with light soiling former owners name on end paper light browning of page edges dust jacket browned with closed tears in bottom of front cover taped from inside a few tears and chips on edges. Viking hardcover books
