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1994réf. __3428079205Duncker & Humblot 1994. Paperback. New. 118 pages. German language. 9.13x6.14x0.32 inches. Duncker & Humblot paperback
1945réf. 150085New York: The Viking Press 1945. Signed limited first edition of Steinbeck's classic novel one of 699 copies. Octavo original cloth pictorial endpapers with illustrations by Wesley Dennis. Fine in the rare original slipcase. An exceptional example. The three interconnected stories in this volume a fourth was added in the 1945 edition won praise on publication as "pure gold… all three of these stories have more depth intensity and variety than one could possibly anticipate" New York Times Book Review. To biographer Jackson Benson they "act as a moral fulcrum… These stories with their child observer examine the nature of life and of death and the relationship of the individual to the whole" True Adventures 288. The Viking Press hardcover
1947réf. 966P37New York: The Viking Press 1947. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None. A smart first edition copy of this intriguing novel on humanity by John Steinbeck. The first edition first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.This novel tells the story of married couple Juan and Alice who work and live in California's Salinas Valley a popular setting of Steinbeck novels. Both characters as well as the other characters they encounter in the novel are deeply flawed and Steinbeck spends the majority of the book exploring these flaws as well as the transitory nature of humanity. This novel was adapted into a black-and-white film in 1957 starring Jayne Mansfield Joan Collins Dan Dailey and Rick Jason. In the original publisher's cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Minor edge wear and rubbing to the dust wrapper a little heavier to the head of the spine. Spine is a little age-toned. Light handling marks to the wraps. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine The Viking Press hardcover
1962réf. 179537New York: The Viking Press 1962. A writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature First edition presentation copy inscribed by the author to the editor-in-chief of the Viking Press on the title page "For Marshal Best with all the things we are both remembering John Steinbeck". Best was a "giant of publishing" and "led Viking to a position of great prestige in the industry" Patrakis. Steinbeck's long association with the Viking Press began in 1938 when Pascal Covici who had published Steinbeck's novels over the previous three years joined Viking as a senior editor bringing the author with him. Save for a handful of private press productions Steinbeck published all his books with Viking from The Long Valley 1938 until his death in 1968. Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 for "his realistic and imaginative writings combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception". The selection was criticized by both Swedish and American literary critics and by the author himself. When asked on the day of its announcement if he deserved the award he coolly replied "Frankly no". Octavo pp. 12. Photographic portrait frontispiece by Paul Farber. Text printed in black and red. Original light brown wrappers lettered in red. Housed in a custom white cloth slipcase and chemise. Book label of William A. Strutz 1934-2024 to inside of chemise. A fine copy. Goldstone & Payne A40. Harry Mark Petrakis Song of My Life: A Memoir 2014. hardcover
2007réf. 1-2729835431Ellipses Marketing 2007. Paperback. New. 144 pages. French language. 9.29x6.22x0.55 inches. Ellipses Marketing paperback
réf. 0330257846-7-1Pan Books. New Ed. Acceptable. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting as well as stains bent corners or any other major defect but the text is not obscured in any way. Pan Books unknown
1935réf. 059676New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1935. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 317 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Blue With Blue Topstain. First Edition First Printing 1935 Van Rees Press No Additional Printings Noted Beige Cloth With Blue Topstain As Published. 1/4000 Copies Of The First Printing. Front Cover Immaculate Spine And Rear Cover Also Bright And Clean Except Some Very Faint Age Toning To Spine -Much Less Than Usual- And A Small Area Of Light Discoloration Near Center Of Rear Cover. Lacking The Scarce Dust Jacket. Beginning To Fray Along Lower Edge Of Spine At Two Lower Tips And Top Two Corners Of Spine; 1" Frayed Along Center Of Rear Spine Edge Only. Contents Immaculate No Foxing Or Marks. Small Previous Owner's Name John L. Garner On Front Endpaper. Front Hinge Slightly Loose But Hinge Sound No Cracks Or Damage Book Is Otherwise Square And Tight. Covici Friede Publishers hardcover
1942réf. 167656Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1942. Two vintage reference photograph from the 1942 film. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the versos. Based on John Steinbeck's 1935 novel about a poor Mexican American who unexpectedly inherits two homes in California leading to tension and resentment among his impoverished friends. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1942réf. 140562NY.: Viking Press 1942. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7 in- 9 in Tall. First Edition. Hard Cover Dust Jacket Chipped On Edges. Price Clipped. ." First Published March 1942 " Blue Cloth Covered Boards With Silver Lettering On Spine. Pg 112 Line 11 - Period Dropped Between ' Talk' & 'This.' Viking Press hardcover
1971réf. 213071971. Simmen Edward editor. The Chicano: From Caricature to Self-Portrait 1971 traces changing literary portrayals of Mexican Americans from externally imposed stereotypes to fiction grounded in Chicano experience and authorship. Published during the Chicano Movement's assertion of political cultural and linguistic identity the anthology brings Anglo and Mexican American writers into deliberate comparison allowing readers to examine how narrative authority affects portrayals of ethnicity labor family discrimination assimilation and community. Its organizing movement from "caricature" to "self-portrait" makes the volume particularly useful for studying representation in American literature and the growing visibility of Chicano voices within the national publishing market. Simmen Edward ed. The Chicano: From Caricature to Self-Portrait. New York: New American Library 1971. First edition. English language. The collection presents short fiction spanning different periods and authorial perspectives including work by John Steinbeck Jack London Ray Bradbury Nick C. Vaca Philip D. Ortega and Genaro González. Simmen's introduction frames the selections around what the publisher described as the "pain and promise of the Mexican-American experience" while the anthology's structure permits comparison between depictions created by writers outside the community and narratives in which Chicano authors define their own characters environments and cultural values. The volume also includes a selected bibliography of short fiction extending its usefulness as an early guide to Mexican American literary study. One volume. 318 pages. Paperback in orange-toned printed wrappers. Octavo. The anthology appeared amid a broader renaissance of Chicano cultural pride and political organization associated with figures and movements addressing farm labor educational inequality land rights and community self-determination. Simmen's editorial arrangement places literary representation within that contemporary struggle over who possessed the authority to describe Mexican American life. Rather than treating all selections as equally authentic the book exposes the historical progression from sentimentalized or derogatory types toward narratives shaped by Chicano memory language and social experience. Light wear to wrapper edges and corners visible spine creasing without loss of structural integrity light page toning and a small crease at the upper-right corner of the front wrapper; contents otherwise unmarked. Very good. An important Chicano Movement-era anthology documenting the transition from outsider representation to Mexican American literary self-definition. unknown
1983réf. 234592Franklin Center.: The Franklin Library. 1983. First edition thus. . Gilt decorated hard cover. Brown leather. All edges gilt. . Fine copy. As new. . 4to. Very scarce in this condition. The Franklin Library. hardcover
2012réf. 031525-TBerkeley CA.: Heyday Books 2012. Book. Illus. by Ken Light. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Illustrators. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1st. Edition 1st. Printing 2012 Black cloth hardcover with the dust jacket 153 page book. A rare copy that is signed and inscribed by both Melanie & Ken Light on the first title page.Illustrated with Ken Lights extraordinary full page black & white photography. Condition : FINE with light shelf rubs ex-owners name embossed & penned at the first blank page top corner. . Heyday Books Hardcover
1956réf. 84684New York: The Viking Press 1956. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; silver cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in purple yellow and black on spine and front cover; lavender and teal pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 158pp; black and white photographic halftone illustrations with colorful illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to board edges with trace residue to title page; Very Good. Dustwrapper designed by Bill English unclipped with light rubbing and residue to front flap chips to spine ends with creases and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. Based on John Steinbeck's Street Thursday. The play Pipe Dream was first presented by Rodgers and Hamerstein at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre in New York in November 1955. 84684. The Viking Press unknown
1954réf. 148288New York: The Viking Press 1954. First edition of this sequel to Steinbeck's famous novel Cannery Row. Octavo original pictorial cloth top stain red. Presentation copy inscribed by Lillian Hellman on the front free endpaper "May every year be as nice as this - and all your Christmases be better - love Lillian 12/25/54." Lillian Hellman was an influential American playwright and screenwriter known for her sharp political insight and strong female characters. Her best-known works include The Children’s Hour 1934 and The Little Foxes 1939 which reflect her commitment to social justice and her talent for dramatic tension. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Sweet Thursday 1954 is a lesser-known yet significant novel by John Steinbeck serving as a sequel to his earlier work Cannery Row. Set in post–World War II Monterey the novel revisits familiar characters while introducing new ones exploring themes of personal renewal community and the search for love and belonging. Although it departs from the more somber tone of Steinbeck’s major works Sweet Thursday reflects his continued interest in marginalized individuals and the complexities of human relationships. The Viking Press hardcover
1984réf. 250420017Amaranth Press / Octopus 1984-01-01. hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x2. ~ Cover has some minor shelf wear. ~ LIKE NEW inside! Clean & Crisp Pages w/No markings. Email for more info./pics Amaranth Press / Octopus hardcover
1939réf. 149708New York: The Viking Press 1939. First edition with "First Published in April 1939" on copyright page and first edition notice on the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panel gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Boldly signed by John Steinbeck on a page bound-in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. "The Grapes of Wrath is the kind of art thats poured out of a crucible in which are mingled pity and indignation. Its power and importance do not lie in its political insight but in its intense humanity. It is the American novel of the season probably the year possibly the decade" Clifton Fadiman. It is the basis for the 1940 John Ford directed film bearing the same name starring Henry Fonda. It is widely considered as one of the greatest American films of all time. In 1989 this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally historically or aesthetically significant." Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century. The Viking Press unknown
réf. 47033944-75Used - Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
1941réf. 181868New York: The Viking Press 1941. Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans First edition. Steinbeck and Ricketts's account of their six-week marine collecting expedition of 1940 contains "more of the whole man John Steinbeck than any of his novels" Lewis Gannett. Steinbeck was greatly influenced by the marine biologist Ricketts 1897-1948 whose "acceptance of people as they were and of life as he found it was remarkable articulated by what he called nonteleological or 'is' thinking. Steinbeck adapted the term and the stance. His fiction examines 'what is'" ANB. The narrative section by Steinbeck includes their "philosophical musings as well as keen observations on Mexican peasantry hermit crabs and 'dryball' scientists" ANB. It is appended by Ricketts's scientific catalogue which was dropped when Steinbeck's narrative was republished as The Log From the Sea of Cortez 1951. Octavo. With 40 photographic plates of specimens of which 8 in colour. Original green cloth spine and front cover lettered in silver map endpapers top edge orange. With dust jacket. Negligible rubbing to cloth; jacket bright soiling to upper left section of rear panel rubbing to edges unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. Goldstone & Payne A15b. hardcover
1953réf. 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
2001réf. G8917160921I4N00Sisa English Corp 2001. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Sisa English Corp paperback
1947réf. 933F30New York: The Viking Press 1947 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 6". Jose Clemente Orozco. The first edition of Steinbeck's popular novella about a pearl diver and his family in the original second issue dust wrapper. The first edition of this work first printing in the second issue unclipped dust wrapper with Steinbeck facing left to the rear wrap.Steinbeck's novella follows a pearl diver named Kino and explores themes of greed defiance of societal norms and evil.Viewed as a parable the tale was inspired by a Mexican folk tale.With vignette illustrations from Jose Clemente Orozco. In the publisher's original cloth binding with unclipped dust wrapper. Bumps to back strip head and tail otherwise externally fine. Light sunning to dust wrapper back strip with losses of paper to back strip head and tail. Small loss of paper to rear wrap tail. Two minor closed tears to front wrap head. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed The Viking Press hardcover
1939réf. 21205711939. New York: Viking. 1939. 8vo. Original tan pictorial cloth with dust wrapper displaying ""$2.75"" and ""First edition"" endpapers with reproduction of the Battle Hymn of the Republic; pp. 619; dust jacket with minimal wear to the corners a little toning to edges a couple of spots of browning generally very good indeed.First edition. Steinbeck's masterpiece and literature's lasting testament to the Great Depression it won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize and was singled-out as a ""great work.an epic chronicle"" in his citation for the Nobel Prize in 1962. This book is one of the great American novels the travails of Tom Joad and his family struggling through the Depression in the Dust Bowl having become legendary. The book has inspired films plays operas and popular music but nothing compares to the stripped back beauty of Steinbeck's prose; ""To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma the last rains came gently and they did not cut the scarred earth"". Copies in this condition are extremely hard to find.The iconic jacket design is by the children's illustrator Elmer Hader. His collaboration was specifically requested by Steinbeck who loved his work in the 1936 book Billy Butter and Hader went on to design later books such as East of Eden. Goldstone & Payne A12a. hardcover
1942réf. 934T50New York: The Viking Press 1942. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A smart first edition of this novel fashioned for theatre adaptation from American writer John Steinbeck. First edition. Second state with correction to page 112. With the original price-clipped dust wrapper. The story of the military occupation of a small town in Northern Europe by the army of an unnamed nation at war with Great Britain and Russia similar to the occupation of Norway by German forces during the Second World War. Written by John Ernst Steinbeck an American writer who was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the original full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Light sunning to the spine with a 1" closed tear to the front panel. Small ink marks to the rear panel. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Near Fine The Viking Press hardcover
1957réf. 145697New York: The Viking Press 1957. First edition of Steinbeck's only political satire. unrevised proof copy signed presentation inscription from the author "Dear Elsie Clough: This book was ghost written in the truest sense of the world. An imp crept down my arm and played in the ink. Don't turn me in please Yours John Steinbeck." on front inner wrapper 2 autograph corrections to the labels including the publication date corrected from March to April and the price corrected from $2.95 to $3.00 original spiral-bound wrappers some snapped edges toned and creased a little marked tall 8vo 1957. A true unrevised copy the title character's name is spelled "Peppen" on p.1. Elsie Clough ran The Book Shop in Providence Rhode Island from 1922 to 1963 her last day of business was November 22. Steinbeck may have been rewarding Clough and other booksellers for years of supporting his work: another copy of the unrevised proof of Pippen is inscribed to Cleveland booksellers Bob and Anne Levine with a similar message mentioning imps. Included with the lot is an essay by Elsie Clough looking back on her career published in the 1964 issue of Yankee Magazine. Provenance: The Mary Steinbeck Dekker Family Collection. Pippin IV explores the life of Pippin Héristal an amateur astronomer in 1950s France who is suddenly proclaimed the King of France. Unknowingly appointed to give the Communists a monarchy to revolt against Pippin is chosen because he was descended from the famous king Charlemagne. Unhappy with his lack of privacy alteration of family life uncomfortable housings at the Palace of Versailles and his lack of power as a constitutional monarch the protagonist spends a portion of the novel dressing up as a commoner often riding a motorscooter to avoid the constrained life of a king. Pippin eventually receives his wish of dethronement after the people of France enact the rebellion Pippin's kingship was destined to receive. He returns to his home in Paris to find that nothing has really changed. The Viking Press unknown
2013réf. x-9814374032World Scientific Pub Co Inc 2013. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 747 pages. 9.50x6.75x1.50 inches. World Scientific Pub Co Inc hardcover
