Steinbeck, JohnBiblio.com
John SteinbeckABAA
The Pastures of Heaven
1933rif. 49955London: Philip Allan 1933. Very Good. London: Philip Allan 1933. First UK Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth boards stamped in black; dark topstain; 302pp. No dust jacket. Light edgewear with some very minor fraying and a couple brief splits; a couple minor stains; fading to spine and along edges; binding sound; ownership inscription to preliminaries else unmarked. A Very Good and sound copy of Steinbeck's second book originally published the year prior in the U.S. An important early work praised upon release in the Los Angeles Times as a "strangely haunting book" in which the valley-villagers "are made to live and breathe and have their being in the little farms shrouded by lovely trees of abundant foliage; oft shut in their homes by depressing brick walls or rudely painted frames that were once stately trees of the valley" and concludes "his particularly fine ability to find beauty and hope in the oft bare lives of these rural Californians is most gratifying." Goldstone & Payne A2d; Gerry Fitzgerald "Carmel Valley Inspires Story." Los Angeles Times: Sunday October 23 1932 page 42. Philip Allan unknown books
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