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1938rif. 55960New York: The Viking Press 1938. First printing. Very good plus in a very good jacket. First edition of this collection of short stories in and about California's Salinas Valley where Steinbeck was born. Published on the heels of the success of OF MICE AND MEN this selection of short fiction by John Steinbeck is a bittersweet tour through his beloved Salinas Valley. Vignettes of farm life in the western US at times tragic at times beautiful are woven with themes such as loss of innocence racism and keeping up appearances. Stories in this collection include "The Chrysanthemums" originally published in HARPERS MAGAZINE and "The Red Pony" novella first serialized in THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. Also included is "Flight" published for the first time in this title making Steinbeck "one of the first American writers to portray sympathetic Hispanic characters" Laws. 8'' x 5''. Original beige buckram-backed cloth boards with red lettering to spine. Original unclipped $2.50 color pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Elmer Hader. Brown topstain. Title page printed in red and black. 304 pages. Two small chips to lower edge of front jacket panel. Minor sunning to spine. Touches of edgewear. Previous owner name penned to front endpaper. Some darkening to front gutter and joint. Faint shelf soil to fore-edge. Overall sound. The Viking Press unknown
rif. 15379804-20Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
1938rif. 1407165New York: The Viking Press 1938. First Edition First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 303 pages. In Good plus condition missing publisher's dust jacket. Spine brown with beige lettering. Mild shelf wear and rubbing. Minor age toning on spine. Front hinge of board cracked along text block. Mild glue staining on inside of both boards. Light age toning on all edges of text block. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #4. 1407165. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover
rif. JD38455NY Armed Services Editions n.d. 1945 first edition thus wrappers. Softcover. No. 794 in this important series it includes such classic Steinbeck short stories as The Chrysanthemums The Snake Johnny Bear Flight The Raid The Harness The Vigilante The Murder and all portions of The Red Pony with a note about the author at the end Goldstone & Payne A11c Morrow 93 issued by the Council on Books in Wartime designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. paperback
1938rif. 150087New York: The Viking Press 1938. First edition of Steinbeck's collection of 13 stories which includes "The Red Pony" and "St. Katy the Virgin." Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Elmer Hader. Goldstone-Payne A11.a. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example. "The value of The Long Valley… Steinbeck's second and arguably best collection of short stories… cannot be overestimated" Railsback & Meyer 214-15. Upon publication the 13 stories in The Long Valley earned Steinbeck high praise as "one of the most richly promising novelists" of his generation New York Herald Tribune. The Long Valley contains "some of the best writing Steinbeck has done" San Francisco Chronicle with "subtleties of feeling that are the stock in trade of writers like Chekhov D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield… The best thing in the book is the three-part story The Red Pony… a masterpiece" New Yorker. The Viking Press hardcover
1938rif. 34157New York: Viking 1938. First Edition. Fine - New. First Edition. Not a Book. Elegantly HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team the First Edition LEATHER box is gilt-lettered on the spine and features an embossed sculpted cover graphically designed after the famous dustwrapper The case is finished inside & out in overall Rich navy blue leather with brown cloth sides. The box is perfectly sized to accommodate the true first edition A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. Custom Craft available upon request as well. "Book definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. Viking unknown
rif. 53371262-75Used - Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
1938rif. 5250Viking 1938. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. A First Edition of this Steinbeck classic in the original dustjacket. With "first published in September 1938" on the copyright page. The book is square and solid with an attractive red topstain on the top edges bound in cream buckram with burn orange cloth covers. With 303 pages the book shows overall darkening on the covers edges and endpapers but the interior is quite clean. The endpapers show the aging of the glue used during publication and a previous owner's name. The dustjacket is complete with the original price $2.50 and a small sales sticker with the same price from the D.W. Robinson Co. in Los Angeles. Overall the dustjacket shows wear and darkening with a split between the spine and back panel held together with what a previous owner claims is acid-free tape. We have added an archival plastic dustjacket which protects the integrity of the fragile but original dustjacket. Overall an important book in the original cloth that shows its age and poor quality of publishing materials but still a special copy. Only 8000 copies of this book were printed. Even from the start of his writing career Steinbeck viewed the Salinas Valley not just as a setting but as a central character in his works. In a 1933 letter to George Albee Steinbeck wrote:“I think that I would like to write the story of this whole valley of all the little towns and all the farms and the ranches in the wilder hills. I can see how I would like to do it so that it would be the valley of the world” Letters p. 73. Steinbeck’s deep attachment to the Monterey County landscape informed the symbolic setting in all the short stories collected in “The Long Valley” 1938. Published between “Of Mice and Men” 1937 and “The Grapes of Wrath” 1939 the collected stories in “The Long Valley” help trace Steinbeck’s developing themes that later became the backdrop for “The Grapes of Wrath” the novel which ultimately won him universal acclaim and transformed Salinas Valley into “Steinbeck Country.” Given their thematic kinship we’ve found that it’s not uncommon for collectors to pair first editions of “The Grapes of Wrath” and “The Long Valley” considering them companion pieces in their libraries. Steinbeck’s letters about his spiritual connection to this region are worth reading. In another 1933 letter this time to his publisher Steinbeck underscores his almost spiritual connection to the region: “My country is different from the rest of the world. It seems to be one of those pregnant places from which come wonders… I was born into it and my father was. Our bodies came from this soil… our bones came from the limestone of our own mountains and our blood is distilled from the juices of this earth. I tell you now that my country a hundred miles long and about fifty wide is unique in the world.” Steinbeck’s reverence for this landscape continues today through the work of the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas which holds regular community events and exhibitions exploring the terrain that shaped his literary imagination. Steinbeck’s letters about the landscape of his childhood are accessible through the Center for Steinbeck Studies which also supports literary scholarship and hosts the International Steinbeck Conference. The Center’s 2026 call for literary and scholarly papers titled Steinbeck in Times of Crisis continues to explore the relevance of his environmental and social vision. Steinbeck’s attention to character depth can be traced back to his formative studies at Stanford where he studied short fiction under Edith Mirrielees. Viking unknown
1945rif. 001074New York: Armed Services Editions 1945. First Thus. . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. Armed Services Edition so first edition thus. Number 794 in the series. Published in August 1945. 48 mo 3 3/4" by 5 1/2". 316 pp. Blue and red wrappers - small softcover. Minor wear and fading to the spine. Very good plus. Armed Services Editions paperback
1942rif. 003322New York: P.F. Collier & Son 1942. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Early Edition. No date but circa 1942. A very fine copy. Unusual in this condition. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. P.F. Collier & Son Hardcover
1938rif. 058679New York: Viking Press 1938. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hader Elmer dj. 303pp.; HB quarter-bound; brick w/white & brick; some rub w/wear on edges & corners; spine w/soil; clean tight pgs. DJ color pic. cover w/black rubbed w/wear on edges & corners; some sun on spine; chips & tears. 16 short stories almost all set in the Salinas Valley Viking Press hardcover
1938rif. 174087New York: Viking Press 1938. First edition of the author's collection of 12 stories set in Salinas Valley California his birthplace. It features the first appearance of "Flight" as well as others which had previously appeared in magazines including "The Red Pony" "Chrysanthemum" and "The Murder". Octavo. Title page printed in red and black. Original quarter buckram spine lettered in brown orange cloth sides top edge orange. With dust jacket. Bookplate of Altess and Sanford Berenson to front pastedown. Small mark to fore edge; jacket bright and unclipped spine slightly toned extremities lightly rubbed with a couple of short closed tears: a near-fine copy in near-fine dust jacket. Goldstone and Payne A11a. hardcover
1938rif. 33788New York: Viking 1938. First Edition. First Edition. Not a Book. Elegantly HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team the First Edition box is gilt-lettered on the spine & features an embossed sculpted cover graphically designed after the famous dustwrapper The case is finished inside & out in overall Rich black Nuba a fine supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather with brown cloth sides. The box is perfectly sized to accommodate the true first edition A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. Custom Craft available upon request as well. "Book definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. Viking unknown
rif. 993Light toning and wear jacket with professional restoration at spine ends. Very good. KWH-993. Steinbeck John. The Long Valley. New York: The Viking Press 1938. First edition. Publisher's binding dust jacket. . unknown
rif. 7605William Heinemann. 1939. First UK edition. 6 314 pp. Original blue/green cloth with white lettering on spine. Binding a bit warped lettering still good. Pages slightly browned. Name on titlepage. Still a very good copy of this scarce first UK edition. Pictures o. 1939. First UK edition. 6 314 pp. Original blue/green cloth with white lettering on spine. Binding a bit warped lettering still good. Pages slightly browned. Name on titlepage. Still a very good copy of this scarce first UK edition. Pictures on request. William Heinemann hardcover
rif. 0553128248.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1938rif. 28277New York:: Viking Press 1938. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with the usual age darkening to the cloth binding in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with gentle wear to the extremities a tiny chip missing near the head of the spine and a glue bleed through running along the fold of the rear panel. Otherwise a respectable copy of this collection of classic Steinbeck short stories. Steinbeck signature laid in. The stories include The Chrysanthemums The White Quail Flight The Snake Breakfast The Raid The Harness The Vigilante Johnny Bear The Murder St. Katy The Virgin the Complete Red Pony The Leader of the People. There were only 8000 copies of this title published in the First Edition. Viking Press, hardcover
1939rif. 018832New York New York: Viking Press 1939. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Collection of 16 short stories by the Pulitzer prize-winning author including three parts of "The Red Pony."' From a single collector's estate this is a FIRST EDITION Fourth Printing from Sept. 1939 in 303 pages. Hardcover book has terra cotta cloth over quarter oatmeal colored cloth-covered boards embossed rust lettering to spine. Condition is Near Fine: extremely clean pages modestly tanned heavier around edges. Front & rear endpapers/hinges are heavily tanned. Old gift inscription dated 1940 on ffep. Corners crisp; binding secure & straight. The DJ clipped at both corners of front flap but not bce is VG: bright & clean with a small pen scribble & chip at center/top edge of back cover & very minor edgewear otherwise. A lovely copy! Beautifully protected in new clear mylar cover. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Viking Press hardcover
1986rif. Q-0140080384Penguin Books 1986-05-06. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Books paperback
1995rif. Q-0140187456Penguin Classics 1995-08-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
1938rif. 1331410New York: Viking Press 1938. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Hardcover; Spine cream with brown print; Boards in protective plastic cover boards quarter bound with cream cloth to spine and brown cloth to boards mild wear to corners and spine caps slight soiling to spine cloth else clean and strong; Text block has brown-tinted top edge penciled price on bottom edge name labels and pencil notation on front flyleaf tanning to endpapers pencil notation on title page verso and contents page clean text; 303 pages. 1331410. FP New Rockville Stock. Viking Press hardcover
rif. 16458218-6Used - 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
1938rif. 71806New York:: The Viking Press 1938. First edition. original cloth in dust jacket. Usual faint browning to inner hinges caused by binder's adhesive used by Viking. The unclipped and unchipped dust jacket has the slightest of rubbing to the top of the backstrip and one tiny closed tear to the bottom of the front panel. The jacket is otherwise brilliant. . 8vo. The Viking Press, hardcover
1939rif. 10665The Viking Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1939. Hardcover. Fourth printing 1939. Tan cloth boards quarterbound in wheat cloth brown titling on spine. Solid binding with a small 1 inch split to covering at lower gutter of front cover. Foxing to endpapers spine sunned/darkened. Unmarked text. Color illustrated DJ has been heavily taped for reinforcement of tears and chips triangular piece torn from top left of spine and one at top left of back cover. Photos on request. ; 8.25 X 5.25 X 1.25 inches; 303 pages . The Viking Press hardcover
1939rif. 043977London: William Heinemann 1939 1939. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 314 Pp. Green Cloth With White Spine Lettering. Undated But First Uk Edition 1939. Near Fine No Wear Browning To Endpapers Half Title And Last Page Of Text. Previous Owner's Inscription"-Because She Would Love The Red Pony- To Ann- With Love- Tony 2/18/39" On Front Free Endpaper. William Heinemann (1939) hardcover
