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1958réf. 58682NY: The Viking Press 1958. First Edition first printing. Goldstone-Payne A37a. 8vo. boards & cloth in dust jacket; 233 pages. Near fine covers nice; contents clean & tight; minor wear & few short tears $3.95 price is present on the front flap d/j. There is a very shallow chip at the top of the spine and a former owner hand-painted the background colors to match those on the dust jacket and this is tipped to the inside of the head of the spine. Not a big deal but it does make the d/j look nicer. The Viking Press unknown books
réf. 06576New York: The Viking Press 1958. Steinbeck as War Correspondent Dispatches from the Front - Human Immediate and Unvarnished STEINBECK John. Once There Was a War. New York: The Viking Press 1958. First edition first issue. Octavo 8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 213 x 143 mm. xxii 1-2 3-233 1 blank pp. Publisher's quarter yellow linen over brown boards spine lettered in red. Original color pictorial dust jacket with just the slightest rubbing at the foot of the spine. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. A compelling collection of Steinbeck's World War II dispatches originally written for the New York Herald Tribune during his time as a war correspondent in 1943. Eschewing conventional battlefield reportage Steinbeck focuses instead on the daily lives of soldiers - capturing moments of boredom humor fear and quiet endurance with remarkable immediacy and empathy. These pieces drawn from Steinbeck's experiences in England North Africa and Italy reveal a deeply human perspective on war emphasizing the individuality of the common soldier rather than the abstractions of strategy or politics. The result is a work of enduring power - part journalism part literature - standing alongside the finest war writing of the twentieth century. Goldstone & Payne A39a. New York: The Viking Press, 1958 unknown books
réf. 431064New York: Viking Press 1958. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in price-clipped near fine dustwrapper with slight scrapes at the foot of the spine. Dispatches from Steinbeck's war journalism. Viking Press hardcover books
1958réf. 428367New York: The Viking Press 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Boards slightly bowed modest rubbing along edges near fine in a very good edgeworn and torn dustwrapper with minimal internal tape repair spine sunned. Dispatches from Steinbeck's war journalism. The Viking Press hardcover books
1958réf. 08642New York: The Viking Press 1958. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. 233 pages top edges stained red; price of $3.95 on front flap. Minor wear at jacket extremities short closed tear top of front panel a trace of fading at jacket spine. Goldstone & Payne A37. The Viking Press unknown books
1958réf. 12540ONCE THERE WAS A WAR Viking Press 1958 first edition just about fine in like dust-wrapper. Viking Press unknown books
réf. 9780141394688Penguin Books UK
1943réf. 249514Firenze: Valentino Bompiani 1943. Paperback. 239p. wartime printing the Milano issue a year earlier softbound in 8x4.5 decorated wraps and a color-decorated dust jacket. Not a bad copy but quite acidic and toned with outermost leaves fragile find tiny marginal tears to early and terminal pages. Cover of book itself is also very toned and a tad fragile. The dj was printed on better paperstock there's a little foxing along joint-folds serious top-edge wear with small chips to the head recto dust-soil but colors are fast and no damage to flap-texts. All things considered like WW Two a good copy. One wonders did Vittorini do the translation while in prison he'd published an anti-fascist novel in 1941 that put him behind bars. Valentino Bompiani paperback books
1956réf. 58686NY: Viking Press 1956. First Edition first printing. Full text & lyrics of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical play based on Steinbeck's novel "Sweet Thursday. 8vo. silver cloth stamped in black in original dust jacket; 158 pages plus photos of the actors. Near fine covers nice contents clean & tight; very minor edgewear with a shallow chips & two small creases to top of the rear panel d/j. Viking Press unknown books
1961réf. 590116Taiwan: no publisher 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Pirated edition. Small octavo. Olive cloth with spine stamped in silver ribbon marker and printed on very thin paper book is about 5/8" thick. Near fine in a very good or better dust jacket also printed on thinner stock printed in red only that has a couple of nicks and tiny tears and a slightly longer tear on the front panel. Prints a copyright date but neither spurious publicaiton information nor the Chinese-language text that is usually found. no publisher] hardcover books
réf. 014778First Edition. Document. About Fine. Two illustrated single-sheet 6" x 9" playbills. OF MICE AND MEN is for the Sam Harris production at Philadelphia's Chestnut St. Opera House starring Claire Luce and Guy Robertson. PIPE DREAM is the Shubert Theatre production starring Helen Traubel and William Johnson. unknown books
1954réf. 377801Salerno Italy: Ente Provinciale per il Turismo 1954. First edition first issue. 30 pp. Yellow printed paper wrappers some wear to wrappers. Interior clean in unrecorded dust jacket with woodcut of "Posetano" on front panel and "Auguri / Dorothy and Truman" printed on the inner flap some light wear along top edge of jacket otherwise its in near fine condition. First edition first issue. 30 pp. This copy specifically states "1954" on the inside front cover and would therefore precede the Italian edition published in 1955 as well as Goldstone & Payne's first English language edition. Variants have been noted see Bradford Morrow's Steinbeck catalogue which bear the date 1954 - whether this represents a different edition or later issue is unclear. Steinbeck's article had appeared in Harper's Bazaar for May 1953 and the Italian translation preceded the English version. This dust jacket is unrecorded. Goldstone & Payne A34b; Morrow 236 Ente Provinciale per il Turismo unknown books
1954réf. 1264641954. Salerno: Ente Provinciale. 1954 Slim 8vo 30 pp. Original cream stiff wrappers small color illustration on upper cover in the glassine. Small ownership signature dated 1958 on front blank. Near fine glassine secured with tape at flaps. § First French language edition of the first separate printing of Steinbeck's Italian travel memoir which was originally published as an essay in Harper's Bazaar May 1953. The translation is credited to L. and G. Faure. unknown books
1954réf. 1300Salerno: Ente Provinciale per Il Turismo 1954. 8vo. 225 x 140 mm. 8 ¾ x 5 ½ inches. 30pp. Stiff printed yellow pictorial wrappers. Four-color stylized image of Positano on front cover. Printed in two colors throughout. Fine. First Edition Thus First Printing. Not in Goldstone and Payne which describes an edition in Italian dated 1955 A34a and what appears to be a later printing of this present edition dated 1959 A34b. Not in the Harry Valentine Steinbeck Collection Catalogue. In May 1953 a travel piece by Steinbeck on the Italian coastal village of Positano appeared in Harper’s Bazaar. A southern Italian tourism agency issued the present first separate edition of it in 1954. In 1955 using the same wrapper design and format they issued an Italian language edition Goldstone & Payne A34a and in 1959 they reprinted that edition in English—occasionally though erroneously referred to as the first edition in English Goldstone & Payne A34b. From the inventory of Burton Weiss Bookseller. . Ente Provinciale per Il Turismo unknown books
réf. 2207219very good. Postcard of Paris Opera house to Steinbeck's son. Steinbeck's typical bird drawing at bottom. Card in very good condition piece missing. unknown books
1965réf. 000854Moscow: Progress 1965. Hardcover. First edition; 5 x 8; pp. 4 5-255; beige cloth over boards illustrated in brown and black; minor fading and age-toning to spine; very light forward slant to spine; very good to near fine. A beautiful edition of John Steinbeck's classic on his road trip across the United States. Moscow: Progress hardcover books
1937réf. 69031New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. Full Description: STEINBECK John. The Red Pony. New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. First edition one of 699 copies signed by John Steinbeck this being number 629. Large octavo 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 251 x 175 mm. 81 1 limitation page pp. Printed on handmade paper by the Pynson Printers New York under the supervision of Elmer Adler. Vignette of a pony in orange and gray on title-page. Original full beige cloth stamped in gray and orange. Vignette of a pony in ornage repeated from the title-page on front cover with date in orange roman numerals below. Spine lettered in yellow. Bottom and fore-edge uncut. With previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Cloth lightly foxed as usual. Still a near fine copy. Housed in publisher's original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label. Label with matching limitation number 629 om spine. Some minor splitting to bottom of case. Still about fine. This story containing three episodes I. The Gift II. The Great Mountains III. The Promise in the life of farm boy Jody Tiflin of the Salinas valley. The story centers on how Jody matures after the loss of his beloved red pony. Goldstone & Payne A9a. HBS 69031. $3000. Covici Friede Publishers unknown books
1937réf. 39023New York: Covici Friede 1937. Near fine. Signed limited first edition this the scarce "lettered" issue meant for private distribution to friends. In addition to being lettered instead of numbered this issue is printed on Marais handmade paper watermarked while the numbered copies are on La Garde paper. The limited edition originally sold for $10.00 - a large sum for the time but sold out. The story features young Jody Tiflin and his life on his father's northern California ranch. The first edition has no illustrations; an illustrated expanded edition came out in 1945. This lettered limited edition is quite scarce. 10'' x 7''. Original tan pictorial limp cloth. No glassine spine and rear edge faded mark at finger slot level corresponding with the finger hole cut out on slipcase for book removal owner bookplate tipped onto free endpaper purportedly belonging to a Covici Friede associate. Housed in the publisher's slip case with the limitation letter on the spine of the case. Slight marginal sunning to cloth. Edge of case faintly stained in two areas else tight. Covici Friede unknown books
réf. 9782070367870Gallimard
réf. 9782253001317LGF
1936réf. 541005New York: Covici Friede 1936. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. Quarter cloth titled in red and with decorative paper-covered boards as issued. Slight wear at the extremities of the fragile papercovered boards although considerably less than usually encountered a near fine copy. Copy number 72 of 199 numbered copies Signed by the author. Covici Friede hardcover books
1936réf. 140942999New York: Covici Friede 1936. First Edition. First edition. Copy #78 of 199 hand-numbered copies signed by John Steinbeck on the rear colophon. Bound in original decorated boards with brown cloth spine lettered in red. About Very Good with rubbing to the fragile boards light foxing to endpapers but spine lettering strong. In a Fair example of the unprinted wrapper chipped and shrunken. Lacking ad slip. One of the most uncommon Steinbeck items offered by his publishers as a Christmas gift. Covici Friede unknown books
1962réf. 555840Istanbul: Elif Yayinlari 1962. Softcover. Fine. First Turkish edition. Translated by Aksit Gokturk. 12mo. 40pp. Printed wrappers. A trifle toned very near fine. Essays written during the Second World War with an excerpt Bombs Away. Elif Yayinlari unknown books
réf. 06589New York: The Viking Press 1941. Steinbeck and Ricketts - Science Friendship and the Gulf of California First Edition of Sea of Cortez STEINBECK John. Ricketts Edward F. Sea of Cortez. A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research. New York: The Viking Press 1941. First edition first printing. Octavo 9 1/4 x 6 inches; 235 x 152 mm. x 598 pp. Forty pages of inserted plates many in color. Publisher's green linen over boards front cover and spine lettered in silver map endpapers printed in blue top edge stained orange. Neat ink names on front paste-down. In the original color printed dust jacket extremities a little rubbed with a 3/4-inch closed tear to lower front panel. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. An important and unusual work in the Steinbeck canon Sea of Cortez documents the 1940 marine expedition undertaken by Steinbeck and his close friend and collaborator Edward F. Ricketts. Blending scientific observation with philosophical reflection and travel narrative the book is as much a meditation on ecology and human interconnectedness as it is a record of biological collecting along the Gulf of California. The work is notable for its hybrid structure combining a detailed scientific catalogue with Steinbeck's narrative journal - later distilled by Steinbeck into The Log from the Sea of Cortez 1951. Copies of the original 1941 edition particularly in unrestored dust jacket are increasingly difficult to locate in collectible condition. A highly desirable Steinbeck first representing one of the most intellectually ambitious collaborations of his career. Goldstone & Payne A14a. New York: The Viking Press, 1941 unknown books
1941réf. 18886New York: The Viking Press 1941. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. First edition first printing of Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts an attractive copy. Octavo 6 vii-x 598pp. Green cloth title stamped in silver on spine and front panel. The first printing with "First Published in December 1941." Top edge dyed pink. Illustrated endpapers with maps of Baja California. Complete with 40 photographic plates 8 in color. In the publisher's first state dust jacket $5.00 on front flap short closed tear along bottom edge of front panel bright illustrations a near fine example. Goldstone & Payne A15b. The Viking Press unknown books
