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1952rif. 166012New York: Random House 1952. First edition. Softcover. First printing. 128 pages. A collection of the speeches from the two time U.S. democratic Presidential candidate. Foreword by John Steinbeck. Brief biography of Stevenson by Debs Myers and Ralph Martin. A very good copy in wrappers with some minor wear to the top of the spine and elsewhere and a former owner's rubberstamp name and address to the title page. Still a solid copy. Random House unknown books
1952rif. 139301New York Random House 1952 1952. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 128 pages; Description: 128 p. 29 cm. Subjects; Presidents --United States --Election --1952. United States --Politics and government --1945-1953. Typed LETTER from Stevenson on headed-paper of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies not signed. Other Chicago committee members listed on the letter's margin. New York, Random House [1952] hardcover
1943rif. 6221First book appearance of Irwin Shaw in Russian. War-time edition. Very rare. This unusual illustrated edition was published specifically for young readers. It includes: 'Strawberry Ice Cream Soda' by Shaw from his first story collection 'Sailor Off the Bremen'; a part of the novella 'The Red Pony' by John Steinbeck; 'Big Two-Hearted River' and 'A Day's Wait' by Ernest Hemingway; excerpts from 'Paul Bunyan' by James Stevens; and two stories by Erskine Caldwell. The illustrations are by Tatiana Mavrina Lebedeva; 1900/1902–1996 a graduate of VKHUTEMAS. She was a member of 'Group 13' an association of graphic artists founded in 1929. Like many Russian avant-garde artists of her generation she turned to children's book illustration in the 1930s as a means of artistic expression that allowed her to avoid political repression during the Stalin era. Despite enduring hunger and hardship during WWII in Moscow her illustrations remained tender vibrant and full of life. Mavrina is the first Russian artist to have received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration. Libman #890. We couldn't trace any copy of this edition via OCLC. Detgiz paperback
2002rif. 709877NY: Ballantine Books. 2002. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Ballantine Books paperback books
2010rif. 9008287New York: Gallery Press 2010. Uncorrected Proof. paperback. Fine Condition. Bound in publisher's original wrappers. Gallery Press paperback books
1945rif. 140947526New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Illustrated Edition. Very Good. First illustrated edition. Association copy signed by John Steinbeck on the half-title page and inscribed "with many thanks" to Peter Kriendler owner of the 21 Club in New York. Bookplate of Jeanette and Peter Kriendler to front pastedown. 131 1 pp. Bound in publisher's gray-brown cloth boards stamped in slate blue gilt lettering to spine color pictorial onlay to front board. All edges stained blue color pictorial endpapers ivory laid paper. Very Good with light rubbing and toning to covers split to upper front hinge light toning and soft ripple throughout. In the original slipcase plain gray paper with color pictorial onlay lightly soiled and toned and split at upper edge. Goldstone-Payne A9.c unlisted third variant printed by Kipe Offset Process Company and bound by H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company. The 21 Club opened in Manhattan in 1930 as a speakeasy. Patrick Kriendler the brother of one of the two founders became a partner in 1938 after working at the club for most of the previous decade. Steinbeck had a favorite table there and enjoyed Kriendler's legendary customer service. One recent record of the club states that it 'featured sliding doors chutes collapsing shelves and hidden storage areas designed to hide alcohol from law-enforcement officials. Over the years the 21 Club began to attract an elite clientele from the worlds of business entertainment the arts sports and politics. The restaurant was known for its strict code of discipline no staff member was allowed to call a customer by his first name as well as its extravagant expensive menu grouse was served for lunch the day after the shooting season opened in Scotland. The Viking Press unknown books
1940rif. 140948733New York: The Limited Editions Club 1940. Limited Edition. Fine. Limited edition in two volumes #517 of 1146 copies. Signed by the illustrator on the colophon. xxii 2 284; 285-559 1 pp. Bound in publisher's "grass cloth" stamped in brown over quarter rawhide lettered in silver all edges stained yellow pictorial endpapers. Very light soiling to textblock edges else Fine. Binding very square and tight; spines never opened. Housed in the original brown paper-covered slipcase moderately chipped and worn. A beautiful unread set made with great care. Two publisher's slips laid in explain that the book's binding was designed to inspire "emotional sympathy" in the reader before he had even cracked it open: "The 'grass cloth' should if the intention of the designer is realized put the prospective reader in mind of of the parched sun-baked grass of the Dust Bowl. Silver is used for the stamping rather than gold because this is a novel about people in 'the silver country.' And rawhide was planned for the backs of the volumes because it is a leather which might very well have come from an Oklahoman steer." The book's contents are enhanced with duotone lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton a painter and muralist in the vanguard of the Regionalist art movement. Benton was also commissioned to create lithographs to help promote the critically acclaimed film adaption that appeared the same year; his style of populist realism was acknowledged to be a perfect match for Steinbeck's. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1942rif. 1278626New York: The Viking Press 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 184pp.; VG/G; spine blue and yellow with yellow lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut '$4.50'; dust jacket has numerous chips including to the top of the front cover top of the rear cover head and tail of spine corners; age-toning to spine rear cover; first printing dust jacket with no printing information on lower rear cover; publishing profits fund is perpetual go to the Air Forces Aid Society; KT Consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #4 . 1278626. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1984rif. 33331142Covelo California: Carolyn and James Robertson The Yolla Bolly Press 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Wikstrom Karin. One of 260 copies folio size 60 pp. signed by Wallace Stegner and Karin Wikstrom. John Steinbeck 1902-1968 considered "a giant of American letters" was best known for his portrayals of families in California often exploring themes of alienation and injustice through "everyman" characters n. b. info from Wikipedia. "Flight" is a short story originally published in the collection "The Long Valley" on the subject of manhood as the protagonist Pepe strives to fill his father's place. While in town he kills a man and must fllee and his subsequent trials reveal that Pepe is not only "trying to live up to the foolish and romantic ideal of manhood common to his kind but is one of the incarnations of Everyman pursuing the ideals that foolish or not. . .in the end give him stature and dignity" per the afterword. Wallace Stegner 1909-1993 provides an afterword for this edition. Stegner was often called "The Dean of Western Writers"; he was a member of the faculty at Stanford University and founded its creative writing program. The Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford was named in his honour and he is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977. In the afterword Stegner analyses the themes and characters in the story in the context of Steinbeck's other work as well as the literary movement at the time. Included in this publication by The Yolla Bolly Press are woodcuts by Swedish artist Karin Wikstrom b. 1959 who has contributed illustrations for several other Press editions including "The Inland Whale" by Theodora Kroeber and "Zapata" by John Steinbeck. Here her prints evoke a pathos for the tragic fate of the characters in their pursuit of dreams and dignity. ___DESCRIPTION: Full natural linen with wrap-around tan illustration of desert landscape white paper spine label with brown lettering fore-edge uncut tan endpapers title page with orange woodcut by Karin Wikstrom six colour woodcuts by Wikstrom tipped in throughout orange woodcuts by Wikstrom throughout; Goudy Modern type folio size 12 1/4" by 10 1.4" pagination: i-vi 1-39 40-42 43-52 53 1 colophon this no. 161 of 250 numbered copies total edition of 260 signed by Wallace Stegner and Karin Wikstrom on the colophon. Loosely laid into the book is a small note from the publisher regarding variation in handmade books. In a slipcase covered with brown paper. ___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean the corners straight and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; as new; the laid-in note also fine. The slipcase is fine overall strong and sturdy free of splits or tears clean without wear other than a few very light stray marks on one side. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an unusually heavy volume and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. Internationa customers please also note that any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Carolyn and James Robertson, The Yolla Bolly Press hardcover books
1941rif. 55619New York: The Viking Press 1941. First printing. Very good plus in very good minus jacket. First edition of this collaborative travelogue about an expedition along the Gulf of California a lyrical ode to marine biology. 9.25'' x 6''. Original teal cloth silver-lettered spine and front board. In original unclipped $5.00 blue and orange dust jacket designed by W.V. Eckhardt. Cartographic endpapers. 8 pages of color photographic illustrations of collected marine life and 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations of marine life after drawings and photographs. x 598 pages. Jacket a bit edgeworm with a few closed tears at folds. Book has minor shelfwear and a touch of two of soil. Overall sound. The Viking Press unknown books
1941rif. 2054FIRST PRINTING OF NOBELIST STEINBECK'S "LEISURELY JOURNAL OF TRAVEL AND RESEARCH" WITH HIS MARINE BIOLOGIST FRIEND EDWARD RICKETTS. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover green cloth binding gilt title to cover and spine endpaperes with map of Gulf of California inscriptions verso of front free endpaper handstamp of Grace Short Reed to half title page stated verso of title page "First published in December 1941." i-x 598 pp 8 color photographic plates 32 black & white plates 2 charts. Wear to corners and spine ends light browning to page edges very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. JOHN STEINBECK 1902 – 1968 was one of the most widely read authors of the 20th century. Much of Steinbeck's work employs settings in his native central California. In 1930 Steinbeck met the marine biologist EDWARD RICKETTS 1897-1948 who became a close friend and mentor to Steinbeck during the following decade teaching him a great deal about philosophy and biology. Ricketts operated a biological lab on the coast of Monterey selling biological samples of small animals fish rays starfish turtles and other marine forms to schools and colleges. Between 1930 and 1936 Steinbeck and Ricketts became close friends and Steinbeck's wife Carol began working at the lab as secretary-bookkeeper. Steinbeck had already published The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men when he co-authored Sea of Cortez with Ricketts. A narrative of a biological expedition in the Gulf of California the work combines scientific observations with personal reflections drawing parallels between human and marine life. Over 550 species are described that in retrospect reveal that ecological disruptions had already affected the Gulf by 1940. Ricketts who died in 1948 was inspiration for the character of "Doc" in Steinbeck's Cannery Row published in 1945. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Viking Press hardcover books
1941rif. 7849New York: The Viking Press 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket unclipped $5.00 generally rubbed stains throughout chipped at the top edge long tear at the front spine fold. Green buckram a few stains front board splayed slightly rubbed at the bottom edge with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound toned at the endpapers bumped at some of the corners clean otherwise. The account of Steinbeck and Ricketts's six week boating and fishing "expedition" in the Gulf of California. The Viking Press hardcover books
1935rif. 41022New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1935. First printing. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. First edition of this oft-comical tale of post-World War I Monterey following the exploits of a wine-loving and vaguely Arthurian group of paisanos a beautiful copy in the scarce original dust jacket. The lighthearted tone of TORTILLA FLAT lifted the spirits of Americans during the Great Depression for whom "reading and the movies were escape. escape from grinding poverty escape from worrying about how to pay the rent escape from worrying about how to find a job" San Jose. Danny and his round table of friends are rarely concerned with any of those issues as they meander through life in Monterey undeniably poor but not experiencing the tragedy of poverty in the same way as many of Steinbeck's later characters. Steinbeck even drew joy from writing the work: "it is light and I think amusing. I don't care whether it amounts to anything. I am enjoying it and I need something to help me over this last ditch" Steinbeck and Wallsten. TORTILLA FLAT did of course amount to something earning the California Commonwealth Club's Gold Medal and a mention in the justification for Steinbeck's 1962 Nobel Prize. It was also made into a 1942 film starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr and was one of the top box office grossers of the year. This first edition is a crystallization of the beginning of Steinbeck's career before his works were required reading in classrooms across America. With Ruth Gannett's illustrations nestled throughout the text TORTILLA FLAT is a refreshingly light title in a broad oeuvre. 7.5'' x 5''. Original tan cloth binding with blue spine lettering. Original unclipped $2.50 pictorial dust jacket in blue and black. Blue topstain. Fore-edge machine deckle. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 318 pages. Housed in custom blue leather-backed clamshell box. Jacket with some edgewear mild chipping to spine ends; spine sunned. Binding corners and spine ends lightly bumped topstain a bit faded; tiny creases to lower margins of pages 316-318. A clean sound copy. Covici Friede Publishers unknown books
1970rif. 50335New York: Limited Editions Club 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. 1363/1500. Signed Fletcher Martin on limitation page. Original light brown half-leather over textured blue cloth in matching slipcase with reverse lettering in red label of spine. Light brown endpapers. Two color half-title. Title page with double-page illustration in color. Illustrated in color by Fletcher Martin. Minor wear with donation stamps on endpapers and half-titles. Library stamp on endpapers and half-title. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1941rif. 140947201New York: The Viking Press 1941. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof of Steinbeck's account of a collecting expedition in the Gulf of California with his friend Edward Ricketts a marine biologist. This is what Goldstone & Payne term the "first edition issue in wrappers" though this is in fact an advance copy of the first edition. Bound in brown paper wrappers with French flaps typewritten label to front cover. Near Fine with light staining to wrappers and text block edges slant to spine offsetting to endpapers from flaps and light even toning throughout. Scarce. The label notes that the proof contains the introduction and narrative but not the illustrations or scientific appendix of the final publication. The Viking Press unknown books
1941rif. 140945632New York: The Viking Press 1941. First edition. First edition first printing. x 598 pp. Bound in publisher's teal cloth stamped in silver. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight sunning and dimple to spine panel; two tiny closed tears to bottom of front panel one of which is repaired with tape on verso. An attractive copy. The Viking Press unknown books
1980rif. 58417Richard West 1980. Limited Edition. One of 150 copies printed. Octavo 26cm. Red buckram titled in gilt; plain endpapers; ii302pp; in-text illus. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Straight and sound minor external dustsoil internally fresh: Very Good. Facsimile of the 1936 first edition. Richard West unknown books
1989Penguin Books 1990. B&W Photographs lvii, 180 p. ill., facsims. 19 cm. Very good condition.
rif. 06591New York: The Viking Press 1969. Steinbeck at Work The Private Notebook Behind a Masterpiece STEINBECK John. Journal of a Novel. The East of Eden Letters. New York: The Viking Press 1969. First edition. Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 209 x 143 mm. x 1-2 3-182 pp. Publisher's quarter dark blue linen over blue cloth boards spine lettered in silver decorative endpapers top edge stained light blue. Original color pictorial dust jacket minimal fading to spine. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. A fascinating and deeply revealing companion to East of Eden comprising Steinbeck's working journal written in the form of letters to his editor and friend Pascal Covici. Composed during the creation of his most ambitious novel these entries provide a rare day-by-day account of the creative process - charting Steinbeck's struggles ambitions and evolving ideas as East of Eden took shape. More than mere ancillary material this volume stands as an intimate self-portrait of the author at work offering insight into his discipline doubts and artistic philosophy. Goldstone & Payne A45a. New York: The Viking Press, 1969 unknown books
rif. 06590New York: The Viking Press 1948. Steinbeck in the Soviet Union - Words and Images by Two Masters A Russian Journal - With Photographs by Robert Capa STEINBECK John. A Russian Journal. With photographs by Robert Capa. New York: The Viking Press 1948. First edition first printing. Quarto 9 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches; 239 x 165 mm. iv 1-2 3-220 pp. Numerous photogravure illustrations throughout. Publisher's quarter yellow linen over light green buckram boards front cover and spine lettered in blue top edge stained blue. In the original color pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A remarkable collaboration between John Steinbeck and the legendary war photographer Robert Capa A Russian Journal records their 1947 journey through the Soviet Union at the dawn of the Cold War. Determined to present an unfiltered view of everyday life the two set out to observe rather than interpret offering a rare and humanizing portrait of postwar Russia at a moment of deep geopolitical tension. Capa's photographs - direct unsentimental and often quietly powerful - perfectly complement Steinbeck's restrained and observant prose. Together they create one of the most compelling documentary works of the period notable for its refusal to conform to prevailing ideological narratives on either side. An unusually fine copy of a book seldom found in such pristine condition particularly in its original dust jacket. A cornerstone collaboration appealing equally to collectors of Steinbeck and of twentieth-century photography. Goldstone & Payne A29a. New York: The Viking Press, 1948 unknown books
1942188p. 12mo. Original full embossed blue cloth binding, spine lettered in silver. Original dust jacket, price clipped, extremities chipped. Hardbound. Not the true first. LIT BOX 4 x2
1945131p. Numerous water color drawings by Wesley Dennis. Decorated title page. Color paste downs and end papers. 8vo. Original full cloth binding with color pictorial paper label. Slip case, worn. First illustrated edition. HORSE 1
2007rif. 72675New York: Tess Press 2007. Square 4to pp. vii 1 288; illustrated throughout. some gruesome and heart-wrenching in black & white; very good sound and clean copy in original black paper-covered boards spine lettered in white and preserving a very good dust jacket. Tess Press unknown books
1952rif. 313963New York: Random House 1952. Paperback. 128p. no illustrations save the cover portrait oversize softbound in 11.5x8 inch decorated wraps covers a bit edgeworn terminal leaf with printed text and inside face of rear cover are quite toned as if newsprint had been stored there item is sound otherwise clean and free of markings. The Steinbeck intro runs 3 and 1/2 pages; he was an Ike fan until he began to hear Adlai's talks. Random House paperback books
1971rif. 326551New York: Belwin-Mills Pub 1971. iv 35p. 7x10.5 inches cast of characters instrumentation libretto covers toned good libretto in stapled tan wraps. SB 891. Based upon Steinbeck's novel and play. First performed by the Seattle Opera Association January 22 1970. Belwin-Mills Pub unknown books
