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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

1969Best.-Nr. 1264681969. New York: The Viking Press 1969. Narrow 4to 148 pp. Yellow card wrappers lettered in black with folding box. Upper wrappers numbered "11" in top left corner. very light wear to spine of wrappers box spotted else very good. § Unrevised proofs. Steinbeck's day-by-day account of the writing of East of Eden in the form of letters to his friend and publisher Pat Covici. The book was published posthumously in an edition of 600 copies. "John Steinbeck in writing East of Eden warmed up for the daily stint ahead in a "letter" to his editor the late Pascal Covici. It was written in pencil usually on the left-hand pages of a large notebook which Covici had supplied. Then when Steinbeck felt ready he proceeded to the text of the novel on the right-hand pages. The writing covered the period from January 29 to November 1 1951. There was a "letter" for every working day. The letter was primarily a method of flexing the author's mental and physical muscles. Steinbeck sometimes used it to adumbrate the problems and purposes of the passage on which he was about to embark-"a kind of arguing ground for the story" as he said once. At other times it consisted of random thoughts trial flights in wordsmanship nuggets of information and comment about the events of the moment both personal and public. But the letters were also full of serious thinking about this novel his longest and most ambitious as well as about novel-writing in general. Never intended for publication they cast a flood of light on the author's mind and on the nature of the creative process. And in the private glimpses of the Nobel-Prize-winning writer-his concern about his sons his hobbies such as wood- carving and carpentry his passion for invention-they are autobiographical material of the first order. In a sense this is Steinbeck's testament. unknown books

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Letters to Elizabeth. A Selection of Letters from John Steinbeck to Elizabeth Otis. Edited by Florian J. Shasky and Susan Riggs

1978Best.-Nr. 13949San Francisco: Book Club of California 1978. First edition. One of 500 copies printed at the Plantin Press. xix 119 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth and boards. Mint copy in dust jacket which is very slightly faded at spine. First edition. One of 500 copies printed at the Plantin Press. xix 119 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Book Club of California unknown books

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Log from the Sea of Cortez The

Best.-Nr. 06579London: Heinemann 1958. Steinbeck & Ricketts in the Gulf of California A Scientific Journey Recast as Literature STEINBECK John. The Log from the the Sea of Cortez. The narrative portion of the book Sea of Cortez with a profile "About Ed Ricketts". London: Heinemann 1958. First U.K. edition. Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm. lxvii 1 blank 1 1 blank 282 pp. Publisher's blue cloth over boards spine lettered in gilt. Corners a little bumped slight fading approx. 1/8 inch at foot of spine and some very light foxing. Original color printed dust jacket with minimal rubbing at extremities. Blue pencil inscription dated "19.9.58" on verso of front free endpaper. A very good copy in an excellent dust jacket. A reworking of Steinbeck's earlier collaborative expedition narrative with marine biologist Ed Ricketts originally published as Sea of Cortez 1941. In this later version Steinbeck presents the narrative portion alone accompanied by his moving biographical essay on Ricketts written after his friend's death. The result is a more personal and reflective work - part travel narrative part scientific observation and part elegy - capturing both the ecological richness of the Gulf of California and the intellectual companionship that shaped Steinbeck's thinking. Goldstone & Payne: see A40 U.S. edition; U.K. issue not separately enumerated. London: Heinemann, 1958 unknown books

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Long Valley The

Best.-Nr. 06573New York: The Viking Press 1938. Steinbeck's Salinas Stories - A Cornerstone Collection First Edition in Exceptional Condition STEINBECK John. The Long Valley. New York: The Viking Press 1938. First edition. Octavo 8 x 5 inches; 203 x 127 mm. 1-8 9-303 1 blank pp. Publisher's quarter light tan buckram over orange cloth boards spine lettered in red top edge stained red. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A superb copy of The Long Valley an important early collection by John Steinbeck that brings together some of his finest short fiction much of it set in the Salinas Valley of California. The volume includes such notable stories as The Chrysanthemums The White Quail and The Red Pony in episodic form each reflecting Steinbeck's deep engagement with landscape isolation and the emotional lives of ordinary people. Published just one year before The Grapes of Wrath this collection marks a crucial moment in Steinbeck's development demonstrating his growing command of narrative form and thematic depth. The stories reveal in concentrated form many of the concerns that would define his major novels - loneliness the fragility of dreams and the tension between human aspiration and environmental constraint. The first edition is increasingly difficult to obtain in such fresh condition particularly with the dust jacket intact and unrestored. A cornerstone Steinbeck title here preserved in an unusually fine state-an essential addition to any serious collection of twentieth-century American literature. Goldstone & Payne A11a. New York: The Viking Press, 1938 unknown books

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MAANEN ER SKJULT THE MOON IS DOWN

1942Best.-Nr. 14792MAANEN ER SKJULT THE MOON IS DOWN De Danske Studenters April 12 1942 one month after the American publication first Danish edition some light tanning to the margins of the covers else vg in unprinted light green wraps with just about fine contents. This very scarce mimeograph issue of this novel was an underground production by the Danish Resistance as the Nazi's would not allow this title to be published in occupied Denmark during the war. Text in Danish of course. De Danske Studenters paperback books

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Maanen er Skjult The Moon is Down

1942Best.-Nr. 555911Copenhagen: De Danske Studenters Forlag 1942. Softcover. Near Fine. First Danish edition of The Moon is Down. Quarto. 58 1pp. Mimeographed pages in stapled unprinted beige wrappers. Small tears at the edges of teh slightly oversized yapped wrappers. very good or better. Apparently printed for students. De Danske Studenters Forlag unknown books

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Manuscript draft for essay entitled "My Short Novels

1953Best.-Nr. 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 books

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Massive archive of nearly 400 letters and postcards written by John Steinbeck to his family over the course of 29 years

1966Best.-Nr. 140946326Various places: No Publisher 1966. A vast archive of correspondence featuring approximately 395 letters postcards and correspondences from the iconic American author John Steinbeck sent to family members over the course of twenty-nine years. The scope is incredible spanning from the publication of his masterpiece Of Mice and Men to two years before his death. Provenance: from the estate of John's sister Mary Dekker Steinbeck. The bulk of John's correspondence over 300 letters is written to his younger and much-adored sister Mary. These letters span a sweeping twenty-eight year period beginning in 1937 and continue until right before Mary's death in 1965. The remainder of John's letters are written to other family members primarily his sisters Beth and Esther Mary's daughter Joan and her husband David Heyler. These letters continue up until 1966. The majority of the letters and postcards are autograph though roughly 93 are typed or typed and signed; including roughly 14 typed and sent in triplicate by John to his three sisters. The vast majority of John's letters are accompanied by their original transmittal envelopes-over the years postmarks come from various locations such as New York City Sag Harbor California Mexico the Virgin Islands Europe and more detailing John's life by location. The condition varies but most range from Near Fine to Very Good. A spreadsheet of the contents can be provided upon request. A partial transcription is available as well serious inquiries only. The archive additionally includes 165 pieces of communication from other family members mostly sent within the family and a small assortment of ephemera. The majority of these peripheral letters were sent by John's second wife Gwyn Conger Steinbeck m. 1943-1948 and third Elaine Steinbeck m. 1950-1968 to Mary. These correspondences begin in 1940 when William Bill Dekker a World War I pilot sends his wife Mary a letter home. Bill would disappear in action over Italy in July 1943 and John would detail attempts he made overseas with his military correspondent connections to locate Bill in letters he sent Mary. The family letters stretch onward until 1997 nearly 30 years after John died with letters from Elaine written to Joan and David. Included in the assorted ephemera is a note from Mary to John's editor and friend Pat Covici on the necessity of the title East of Eden notes two typescripts seven snapshot photographs depicting John and several others on a boat and one depicting John in a yard being greeted by a dog. Several telegrams are present; including the one John sent to Mary relaying the news of the birth of his second son John IV June 12 1946: "A BOY BOTH FINE 5 POUNDS 4 OUNCES. LOVE= JOHN". These letters portray a sweeping and intimate look at Steinbeck's life as told in his own words and the words of those closest to him through deeply personal letters covering his private and professional life during his most artistically productive years. He ranges over countless topics from the mundane minutia of daily life such as stockpiling meat in his new deep freeze to save a few pennies per pound should meat prices raise to the profound-childhood memories the births of his sons the collapse of his marriage to Gwyn his grappling with depression mortality and much more. Despite John's worldwide acclaim and success winning both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes his nostalgic thoughts often drift back to a green cliff overlooking the Carmel River of his youth. He writes at length of his professional life his work and milestones from being a war correspondent to novelist and playwright. He expounds on the ups and downs of his writing process-from research to starting new work becoming frustrated and throwing work out finishing work and starting again. Collections of this magnitude and breadth regarding such a major American author are virtually unobtainable in the marketplace with most material already held by institutions. Because this correspondence comes from family members it offers a much more intimate and private look into the life of John Steinbeck than otherwise available. Despite his prolificacy he never wrote an autobiography and these intimate letters offer insights available no other way. [No Publisher] unknown books

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MOON IS DOWN

1942Best.-Nr. 6705LONDON HEINEMANN 1942 1942. First English edition resent and printed in the U.K. Dust jacket back faded a gew nicks. Very good. Terracotta cloth variant binding. 1st Edition. Hardcover. LONDON, HEINEMANN, 1942 hardcover books

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MOON IS DOWN

1943Best.-Nr. 6702WASHINGTON PENGUIN BOOKS 1943 1943. STIFF PICTORIAL WRAPPERS "FIRST PENGUIN EDITION" VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. Soft cover. WASHINGTON, PENGUIN BOOKS, 1943 paperback books

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Moon is Down The

Best.-Nr. 06586New York: The Viking Press 1942. Steinbeck in Wartime - A Novel of Resistance and Moral Courage First Edition First Issue of The Moon Is Down STEINBECK John. The Moon Is Down. A Novel. New York: The Viking Press 1942. First edition first issue with the large dot between "talk" and "this" on p. 112 line 11. Octavo 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 188 x 121 mm. 2 blank 1-10 11-188 2 blank pp. Publisher's blue linen over boards front cover lettered in blind spine stamped in silver top edge stained pale blue. A fine copy in a near fine pictorial dust jacket with only minimal rubbing to extremities. A powerful wartime allegory written at the height of World War II The Moon Is Down was conceived as a work of morale-building fiction portraying the quiet but unyielding resistance of an occupied town against an unnamed invading force. Though deliberately universal in setting its message was unmistakable and the book was widely circulated in clandestine editions throughout occupied Europe becoming an important cultural weapon of resistance. This is the true first issue with the well-known priority point on p. 112-"talk·this" - a detail of particular importance to Steinbeck collectors. Copies in such fine condition especially with a bright well-preserved dust jacket are increasingly difficult to locate. Bibliography: Goldstone & Payne A16a. New York: The Viking Press, 1942 unknown books

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Mus og Maend Tortilla Flat

Best.-Nr. 554943Kobenhaven: Gyldendalske Boghandel 1939. Softcover. Very Good. First Danish edition of Tortilla Flat. Illustrated self-wrappers. Spine toned a couple of tiny spots on front panel front hinge neatly restored very good or a bit better. Gyldendalske Boghandel unknown books

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MY SHORT NOVELS

1953Best.-Nr. 12538MY SHORT NOVELS in Wings for October 1953 first edition fine in full color pictorial wraps. Besides the Steinbeck contribution editor John Beecroft yields a 4 page article entitled THE SHORT NOVELS OF JOHN STEINBECK introducing this Literary Guild selection. Illustrated in full color throughout by Harvey Kidder. Along with a review of EAST OF EDEN as issued by The Reader's Digest News magazine. Both items are fine. Garden City paperback books

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NO RIDERS / excerpt from THE GRAPES OF WRATH

1939Best.-Nr. 11373NO RIDERS in The Saturday Review of Literature for April 1 1939 first edition near fine in pictorial wraps. NO RIDERS is an excerpt from the soon to be published THE GRAPES OF WRATH. The Saturday Review of Literature paperback books

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Nothing So Monstrous

1936Best.-Nr. 4799New York: Pynson Printers 1936. First edition. First separate edition printed at the request of Elmer Adler for presentation to Gabriel Lambert. Publisher's quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. A Near Fine copy with faint sunning to spine and small split to cloth to the front joint near the crown; gentle bumps to corners. Internally fresh and unread. A pleasing copy. The first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story that formed a portion of Steinbeck's novel The Pastures of Heaven. Here in a lovely fine paper copy made for presentation by the Pynson Printers. Pynson Printers unknown books

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Steinbeck, JohnABAA

Nothing So Monstrous

1936Best.-Nr. 4800New York: Pynson Printers 1936. First edition. First separate edition printed for presentation but without an information inked in at the limitation page. Publisher's quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. A Near Fine copy with faint sunning to spine and small split to cloth to the front joint near the crown; gentle bumps to corners. Internally fresh and unread. A pleasing copy. The first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story that formed a portion of Steinbeck's novel The Pastures of Heaven. Here in a lovely fine paper copy made for presentation by the Pynson Printers. Pynson Printers unknown books

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NOTHING SO MONSTROUS

1980Best.-Nr. 08780NOTHING SO MONSTROUS Richard West 1980 fine without dust-wrapper as issued. 1/150 copies of this the facsimile edition. Illustrated. Richard West unknown books

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Nothing So Monstrous

1936Best.-Nr. 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

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Novels 1942-1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden.

2002Best.-Nr. 98252NY:: Library of America. As New. 2002. Hardcover. As new in like slipcase. Tan cloth. No dust jacket as issued. Sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Still in original shrinkwrap. . Library of America, hardcover books

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Of Mice and Men

1937Best.-Nr. 140949571New York: Covici Friede 1937. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. First issue of the text with "pendula" on page 9 and a bullet between the two 8's of the page number on page 88. 186 pp. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in orange and black blue topstain. Near Fine with very light sunning to cloth. In a Near Fine dust jacket corners lightly clipped but price of $2.00 intact with sunned spine panel and modest edgewear. A fantastic copy of Steinbeck's Western novella about the struggles of two itinerant farm workers George and Lennie in California during the Great Depression. One of only 2500 copies printed in the first issue. Covici Friede unknown books

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Of Mice And Men

1937Best.-Nr. 19644New York: Covici Friede 1937. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. The Book Club Edition of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Octavo 186pp 1. Publisher's original tan cloth title printed on spine and cover. The first Book Club edition with "Printed and bound by the Haddon Craftsmen" on the copyright page. With the corrected text on page 9 ending "hung loosely" and no bullet between the eights on page 88. In the publisher's pictorial dust jacket without price on the front flap loss along the heel of the spine several short closed tears. Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club before publication. ref. Goldstone & Payne Aa. Covici Friede unknown books

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Of Mice and Men

Best.-Nr. 06583New York: Covici Friede 1937. Steinbeck on Stage - The Dramatic Form of Of Mice and Men First Edition of the 1937 Play STEINBECK John. Of Mice and Men. A Play in Three Acts. New York: Covici Friede 1937. First edition. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm. 2 1-10 11-172 pp. Title-page printed in blue and black. Publisher's original gray linen over boards front cover and spine decorated in red and lettered in black. Some light glue staining to paste-downs as usual. In the original dust jacket printed in blue and gray spine somewhat darkened with wear to extremities. A very good copy in a fair dust jacket. With a striking Art Deco pictorial bookplate of William Rankin on the front free endpaper signed "Artemis" in the plate - a finely executed early twentieth-century design featuring stylized allegorical female figures. Issued in the same year as the novel this dramatic adaptation of Of Mice and Men represents Steinbeck's own reworking of his most enduring early work for the stage. The play opened on Broadway in November 1937 and was an immediate success winning the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. As such this edition occupies a unique place in the Steinbeck canon - bridging fiction and theater at the moment of the author's ascent to major literary prominence. Goldstone & Payne A8a. New York: Covici Friede, 1937 unknown books

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Of Mice and Men

1937Best.-Nr. 332643New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First. hardcover. Small 8vo tan cloth stamped in terra cotta & black; dust wrapper. New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First Edition. Excellent copy except for 2 chips on the top edge of the dust wrapper with the two first issue points on pages 9 & 88 and the $2.00 price on the wrapper. Housed in a 1/4 sienna morocco slipcase. Covici-Friede unknown books

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Of Mice and Men

1937Best.-Nr. 140948912New York: Covici Friede 1937. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A family presentation copy inscribed by John Steinbeck on the front free endpaper to his sister Beth and her husband Eugene Ainsworth; Beth's bookplate to front pastedown. First edition first printing first issue with "pendula" on page 9 and a bullet between the two 8's of the page number on page 88. 186 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in orange and black blue topstain. Near Fine with foxing to cloth textblock edges endpapers and intermittently throughout. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with soft creasing to front and rear panels with a short closed tear at the bottom edge of the front light wear foxing and toning. Goldstone & Payne A7.a. One of just 2500 copies printed in the first issue given by the author to his beloved older sister whom he held up as a model of integrity in the dedication to Winter of Our Discontent: "To Beth my sister whose light burns clear." Steinbeck was satisfied with his novella about the struggles of two itinerant farm workers but he didn't expect the book to make any money. It ended up selling 117000 copies in less than a month. The story was originally intended for children and The Times called it a "fairy tale" in its review. The novella is now assigned to grade school students across the country as their first introduction to Steinbeck. Covici Friede unknown books

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