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1936rif. 431536New York: Covici Friede 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second edition. Blue cloth gilt. Fine in fine dustwrapper with slightest toning on rear panel. An exceptional copy reissued to capitalize on the success of the author's later title Of Mice and Men. Covici Friede hardcover books
1936rif. 17901New York: Covici-Friede 1936. Second Edition. Octavo; navy blue cloth with titles and decoration stamped in gilt on spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; 269pp. Offsetting to pastedowns rough erasure to former owners name on front endpaper with the topstain a bit dulled; Near Fine. In the correct dustjacket without mention of the publisher's name and with the addition of Of Mice and Men to front panel; price-clipped evenly browned overall with wear along edges and corners and a few short tears to same and a small tape mend on verso; Very Good. The author's first book. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A1c. Covici-Friede unknown books
rif. 9782742783588Babel
1946rif. 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
rif. 9782070306473Gallimard
rif. 9780141394893Penguin Books UK
1952rif. 18348New York: The Viking Press 1952. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 8vo. Apple green cloth blocked in black and deep red. "First published" statement on the copyright page and date on the title page. Cloth sunned along the edges and spine but a very good copy. The first state dustwrapper has the price of $4.50 on the flap and Steinbeck's portrait on the rear panel. The top inch of the spine and the bottom edge have been professionally restored giving a near fine appearance with only light age toning especially to the spine. The rear free endpaper and pastedown have penciled notes made by a former owner apparently references to important passages in the book. . . The Viking Press hardcover books
1992rif. 57563New York: Penguin Books 1992. Reprint. Paperback. new. 601 pp. Octavo. 19.75 cm. Printed wraps. Penguin Books paperback books
1952rif. 12537EAST OF EDEN Viking 1952 first edition as new in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper and custom slipcase. Rare thus. The source book for the film of the same name of course. Viking unknown books
1953rif. 12624EAST OF EDEN" IN News of the Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club Pleasantville Reader's Digest Spring 1953 first edition fine in full color pictorial wraps. Mentions five new publications with text about each. Of the five books so noted one is Steinbeck's EAST OF EDEN. Contains many interior full color illustrations. Pleasantville, Reader's Digest paperback books
1954rif. 555835Copenhagen: Gyldendal 1954. Softcover. Near Fine. First Danish edition of Sweet Thursday. Octavo. 235 1pp. About fine in printed wrappers in lightly rubbed very good or better dust jacket. Gyldendal unknown books
rif. 9782070362288Gallimard
1979rif. 569212Logan Iowa: The Perfection Form Company 1979. Softcover. Fine. First separate edition originally published in The Portable Steinbeck. 12mo. 46pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine. Published for educational purposes very uncommon. The Perfection Form Company unknown books
1984rif. 48292Covelo CA: Yolla Bolly Press 1984. Edition limited to 250 copies this no. 69; square 4to pp. 8 52 4; six color woodblocks by Karin Wikström woodblock text illustrations; signed by Wikström and Stegner on colophon; full patterend buckram paper label on spine; fine in a lightly rubbed red slipcase. Yolla Bolly Press unknown books
1941rif. 6695NY VIKING 1941 1941. DUST JACKET; 1/2 FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. NY, VIKING, 1941 hardcover books
1941rif. 95211NY:: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1941. Hardcover. With 136 black and white photographs from the film by Herbert Kline throughout. Book club edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear and age toning foxing to rear flap dust jacket. . Viking, hardcover books
rif. 06569New York: The Viking Press 1947. A Powerful Documentary Collaboration Steinbeck's Stark Vision of Rural Mexico - First Edition STEINBECK John. The Forgotten Village. With 136 photographs from the film of the same name by Rosa Harvan Kline and Alexander Hackenschmied. New York: The Viking Press 1941. First edition first issue. Quarto 10 x 6 7/8 inches; 254 x 175 mm. 1-8 9-143 1 blank pp. Illustrated throughout with 136 photographic reproductions. Publisher's tan buckram front cover pictorially decorated in green spine lettered in green top edge stained green. A near fine copy in the original color pictorial dust jacket. A striking and unusual work by John Steinbeck conceived in conjunction with the documentary film of the same name. The Forgotten Village departs from Steinbeck's more familiar fictional narratives presenting instead a quasi-anthropological account of life in a remote Mexican village where traditional beliefs and modern medicine collide with tragic consequences. The text - part narrative part social document - follows the story of a young boy Juan Diego whose village is ravaged by disease. Steinbeck's restrained almost reportorial prose heightens the emotional impact underscoring themes of cultural conflict superstition and the limits of intervention. The work reflects Steinbeck's deep and abiding interest in marginalized communities a concern that runs throughout his major novels. The volume is richly illustrated with 136 photographs by Rosa Harvan Kline and Alexander Hackensmid later known as Alexander Hammid whose cinematic eye lends the book a powerful visual immediacy. The photographs are not merely illustrative but integral to the narrative reinforcing the documentary character of the work and bridging the gap between literature and film. An important and often underappreciated Steinbeck title here preserved in its original form with the dust jacket-an increasingly elusive survival in collectible condition. Goldstone & Payne A15. New York: The Viking Press, 1947 unknown books
1943rif. 559993Darmstadt Berlin: Vorwork-Verlag 1943. Hardcover. Very Good. Early reprint of the German edition of The Grapes of Wrath. Thick octavo. Illustrated paper over boards. Cheap paper a little toned small split at the top of the front joint and a bit of rubbing very good. Interesting German wartime publication of Steinbeck's classic novel. Vorwork-Verlag hardcover books
1939rif. 53753New York: The Viking Press 1939. First printing. Near fine. First edition of the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning novel that made Steinbeck a household name. GRAPES OF WRATH has been generations of students' introduction to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Steinbeck's extensive use of symbolism and Biblical motifs also makes it an excellent exercise in literary criticism for both high schoolers and hardcore academics all pulled together with exceptionally lyrical prose. GRAPES OF WRATH was an immediate hit and stayed atop bestseller lists for the majority of 1939. But it was not always beloved: the novel was a lighting rod for Steinbeck both professionally and personally. His portrayal of the difficult lives of migrant workers and the corruption of the agriculture business earned him "constant vilification" from powerful farmers' groups and the book was banned and even occasionally burned in a variety of communities Demott. In his diaries Steinbeck lamented how the novel's popularity "got really out of hand became a public hysteria" leading to the idea that he was himself "public domain" Demott. This first edition with its hyperbolic but prescient dust jacket editorial copy "Perhaps GRAPES OF WRATH is the greatest modern American novel. the greatest single creative work this country has ever produced" captures the tipping point of Steinbeck's career. 8'' x 5.25''. Original tan buckram binding with brown titles and line art. Original unclipped $2.75 color pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Elmer Hader. Yellow topstain. Endpapers with illustration of the Battle Hymn of the Republic in yellow and orange. 620 pages. Jacket with minor edgewear one tiny chip to spine foot. Book with just a touch of spotting to fore-edge. Overall sharp. The Viking Press unknown books
1939rif. 367906New York: The Viking Press 1939. First edition. 619 pp. 8vo. Tan cloth decoratively stamped in brown on cover and spine; unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear to upper rear; spine lightly sunned. First edition. 619 pp. 8vo. The Classic Novel of the Great Depression. The tale of the Joad family as they travel across the country from Oklahoma to California in the midst of the Great Depression is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. It is Steinbeck's masterpiece. The Grapes of Wrath won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer and was central in the awarding of Steinbeck the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. The Viking Press unknown books
2006rif. WELLER9780143039433Pengiun Books 2006. New. New book. Pengiun Books unknown books
1939rif. 3545New York: Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good DJ. First Edition. Hardcover. "First Edition" at lower tab of front flap. Noted flaws in the DJ notwithstanding a very presentable copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning classic. Minor shelf/edge wear hint of toning at spine light toning at hinges minor dust staining at top of text block else tight bright and unmarred. DJ shows moderate shelf/edge wear focused at head tips and flap folds minor chipping at head and tips bottom half of spine missing facsimile laid under light toning overall slightly heavier at spine else clean and bright. Beige cloth boards brown ink lettering and pictorial elements pictorial end pages music sheet. 8vo. 619pp. Viking Press hardcover books
1970rif. 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
1946rif. 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
1941rif. 557825Praha Prague: Evropský Literární Klub 1941. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First Czech edition Translated and with an afterword by Vladimir Procházka. Jacket by Jaroslav Šváb. Octavo. 457 2 pp. Text in Czech. A couple of tiny spots on the foredge still fine in a spine-toned very good dust jacket with a bit of nicking mostly along the topedge. Winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. A very presentable copy; OCLC shows two 1941 editions published in Prague with less than 10 copies between them. Evropský Literární Klub hardcover books
