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1945Best.-Nr. 338561New York: Viking 1945. hardcover. very good/very good-. Small 8vo yellow cloth with blue lettering blue top-stain d.w. New York: Viking Press 1945. First Edition. Second issue canary yellow binding. The dust wrapper is somewhat darkened & edge-rubbed with a closed tear at a fold but has the $2.00 price. Viking unknown books
1945Best.-Nr. 1416536New York: The Viking Press 1945. Hardcover. Octavo 208 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine grayish brown with deep beige lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including slight sunning and few small chips to the head/tail edges with slight age toning to the jacket interior. Boards have slight plus wear including mild soiling. Text block has moderate wear including modest age toning to the fore/tail edges and head edge colored bluish green. Partial cracking to the hinges. First edition second state. NOTE: Shelved in Column L. 1416536. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1988Best.-Nr. 1418568Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1988. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 196 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's decorated navy blue leather with red and gilt stamping to spine. Rubbing and scuffing along edges of boards. Edges of textblock gilt. With silk endpapers and a silk ribbon bookmark. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Easton Press. 1418568. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 06574New York: The Viking Press 1945. Advance Issue in Original Wrappers A Pre-Publication Steinbeck of Uncommon Survival STEINBECK John. Cannery Row. New York: The Viking Press 1945. Advance copy preceding the first edition. Octavo 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 187 x 121 mm. vi 208 1 advertisements 1 blank pp. Publisher's original blue printed wrappers front cover lettered in black. Housed in the original acetate jacket. Spine very slightly darkened minor wear at top of spine otherwise an exceptionally well-preserved near fine copy. A scarce and desirable advance issue of one of Steinbeck's most beloved Monterey novels issued in fragile paper wrappers for pre-publication distribution. Copies retaining the original acetate jacket are particularly uncommon as these ephemeral coverings were seldom preserved. Cannery Row stands among Steinbeck's most warmly regarded works - a loosely structured episodic portrait of life along the Monterey waterfront populated by a cast of unforgettable characters including Doc Mack and the boys. Blending humor pathos and philosophical reflection the novel captures both the camaraderie and quiet desperation of its Depression-era milieu. Advance copies of this title are rare in commerce especially in such superior condition and are keenly sought by collectors for their immediacy to publication and inherent fragility. Goldstone & Payne A16 advance issue in wrappers. New York: The Viking Press, 1945 unknown books
2002Best.-Nr. WELLER9780142000687Penguin 2002. New. New book. Penguin unknown books
1954Best.-Nr. 542733New York: Bantam Books 1954. Softcover. Near Fine. Later printing. Mass market paperback. Margins lightly toned else near fine. Bantam Books Number 1266. Bantam Books unknown books
1994Best.-Nr. WELLER9780140187373Penguin Books 1994. New. New book. Penguin Books unknown books
1945Best.-Nr. 4091New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 7 3/8" x 4 3/4" First Issue January 1945 ADVANCE REVIEW COPY 208pp. 1pp. list of Steinbeck's other works. Bound in blue paper wraps lettered in black; A very good to fine copy and scarce in nice condition. The Viking Press paperback books
1945Best.-Nr. 10894CANNERY ROW Zephyr / Continental Book Co. 1945 first continental edition just about fine in wraps. Not in the Harry Valentine collection. Most uncommon. Zephyr / Continental Book Co. paperback books
1945Best.-Nr. 172832New York: Viking Press 1945. First Edition. First Edition. Second issue with canary yellow cloth. One of the author's best-loved works a nostalgic view of the residents of Monterey CA set during the Great Depression. About Fine with a bright navy topstain in a Near Fine lightly toned dust jacket. Viking Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. JD29396n.p. NY n.p. The Viking Press n.d. 1944 first edition wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy an uncorrected galley proof bound in plain unprinted tannish wrappers printed on rectos only a very scarce advanced state of this minor or not so minor Steinbeck masterpiece whose themes of death and loneliness are masked by its surface layer of humor all the more rare in that this is an Author Presentation Copy Inscribed by Steinbeck to the best man at his second marriage Howard O. Hunter who was the Works Progress Administration WPA commissioner in the early 1940s under the FDR administration Steinbeck and his second wife Gwen Conger were married March 29 1943 just 11 days after receiving his final divorce decree from his first wife Carol Steinbeck has Inscribed the first preliminary as follows "For Howard/who really/belongs in/Cannery Row/John Steinbeck/last night in New York 1944" this galley lacks all the preliminaries found in the 1945 published version such as half titles title page copyright page dedication page etc. although not specifically cited in Goldstone & Payne there is a notation under G&P A22a that "a copy of the unrevised galley proofs is in the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas" see Morrow 172 that copy with a yellow label on front giving publication date and price that is not on this copy--the Morrow copy was not signed or inscribed now housed in a beautiful custom clamshell case with leather spine laid in loosely is a letter of provenance from Ellen Leonard who was given this proof by Hunter's wife Edna. This was bound for in-house use by Viking and not for sale thus it was never meant to be in great condition even when new spine ends are chipped there is offsetting from printed pages onto the previous verso some pages are becoming dis-bound. n.p. (NY), n.p. (The Viking Press), n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. paperback books
1990Best.-Nr. 70606Covelo CA: The Yolla Bolly Press 1990. Paperback. Near fine. Very thin quarto 29.5 cm in fibrous handmade paper wraps with sewn binding. Prospectus for the limited edition of Zapata issued in November 1991. With one full-page illustration reproducing the artwork of San Francisco artist Karin Wikström. The Yolla Bolly Press paperback books
1953Best.-Nr. 114936London: Cassell & Company Limited 1953. Early printing of Cassell's French-English English-French Dictionary from the library of American literary master John Steinbeck and his wife Elaine Steinbeck. Octavo original cloth. Signed and dated by Steinbeck’s wife Elaine Steinbeck on the front free endpaper "Elaine Steinbeck Paris 1954." In very good condition. One of the first female stage managers on Broadway American actress Mary Elaine Steinbeck studied drama at the University of Texas Austin where she met her first husband Zachary Scott. The couple divorced in 1950 and within a week of their divorce Elaine married John Steinbeck on December 28 1950. A powerful force in John's life Elaine accompanied him on his many international trips and the couple remained married until John's death in December 1968. Cassell & Company, Limited hardcover
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2021Best.-Nr. KIBO68033Iletisim Yayinlari 2021. n/a Iletisim Yayinlari unknown
2017Best.-Nr. PREF36804Sel Yayincilik 2017. n/a Sel Yayincilik unknown
Best.-Nr. JD29453Bronxville privately printed 1952 first edition wrappers. Softcover. First separate printing of this chapter from Steinbeck's big rambling flawed masterpiece Steinbeck writes beautifully how there is only one story -- the struggle between good and evil one of 125 copies printed on the hand-press by Valenti Angelo bound in limp buff wrappers this is variant 2 with the title page containing a red and black rectangular design of leafy and bare branches between the title and "PRIVATELY PRINTED 1952" with the limitation notice on page 10 although the pages are unnumbered the variants are believed to be trial copies no priority has been determined Goldstone & Payne A32d not recorded by Morrow this was John DePol's copy with his spare bookplate DePol 1913-2004 was an artist and one of America's foremost printmakers and wood engravers his prints can be found in the permanent collections of many libraries and museums he contributed to publications by the Allen Press Red Ozier Press Stone House Press and others The Book Club of California recently produced a major work on him John DePol A Catalogue Raisonne of His Graphic Work 1935-1998. The usual age-toning else fine. Bronxville, privately printed, 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. paperback
1971Best.-Nr. 213071971. Simmen Edward editor. The Chicano: From Caricature to Self-Portrait 1971 traces changing literary portrayals of Mexican Americans from externally imposed stereotypes to fiction grounded in Chicano experience and authorship. Published during the Chicano Movement's assertion of political cultural and linguistic identity the anthology brings Anglo and Mexican American writers into deliberate comparison allowing readers to examine how narrative authority affects portrayals of ethnicity labor family discrimination assimilation and community. Its organizing movement from "caricature" to "self-portrait" makes the volume particularly useful for studying representation in American literature and the growing visibility of Chicano voices within the national publishing market. Simmen Edward ed. The Chicano: From Caricature to Self-Portrait. New York: New American Library 1971. First edition. English language. The collection presents short fiction spanning different periods and authorial perspectives including work by John Steinbeck Jack London Ray Bradbury Nick C. Vaca Philip D. Ortega and Genaro González. Simmen's introduction frames the selections around what the publisher described as the "pain and promise of the Mexican-American experience" while the anthology's structure permits comparison between depictions created by writers outside the community and narratives in which Chicano authors define their own characters environments and cultural values. The volume also includes a selected bibliography of short fiction extending its usefulness as an early guide to Mexican American literary study. One volume. 318 pages. Paperback in orange-toned printed wrappers. Octavo. The anthology appeared amid a broader renaissance of Chicano cultural pride and political organization associated with figures and movements addressing farm labor educational inequality land rights and community self-determination. Simmen's editorial arrangement places literary representation within that contemporary struggle over who possessed the authority to describe Mexican American life. Rather than treating all selections as equally authentic the book exposes the historical progression from sentimentalized or derogatory types toward narratives shaped by Chicano memory language and social experience. Light wear to wrapper edges and corners visible spine creasing without loss of structural integrity light page toning and a small crease at the upper-right corner of the front wrapper; contents otherwise unmarked. Very good. An important Chicano Movement-era anthology documenting the transition from outsider representation to Mexican American literary self-definition. unknown
1971Best.-Nr. 213071971. Simmen Edward editor. The Chicano: From Caricature to Self-Portrait 1971 traces changing literary portrayals of Mexican Americans from externally imposed stereotypes to fiction grounded in Chicano experience and authorship. Published during the Chicano Movement's assertion of political cultural and linguistic identity the anthology brings Anglo and Mexican American writers into deliberate comparison allowing readers to examine how narrative authority affects portrayals of ethnicity labor family discrimination assimilation and community. Its organizing movement from "caricature" to "self-portrait" makes the volume particularly useful for studying representation in American literature and the growing visibility of Chicano voices within the national publishing market. Simmen Edward ed. The Chicano: From Caricature to Self-Portrait. New York: New American Library 1971. First edition. English language. The collection presents short fiction spanning different periods and authorial perspectives including work by John Steinbeck Jack London Ray Bradbury Nick C. Vaca Philip D. Ortega and Genaro González. Simmen's introduction frames the selections around what the publisher described as the "pain and promise of the Mexican-American experience" while the anthology's structure permits comparison between depictions created by writers outside the community and narratives in which Chicano authors define their own characters environments and cultural values. The volume also includes a selected bibliography of short fiction extending its usefulness as an early guide to Mexican American literary study. One volume. 318 pages. Paperback in orange-toned printed wrappers. Octavo. The anthology appeared amid a broader renaissance of Chicano cultural pride and political organization associated with figures and movements addressing farm labor educational inequality land rights and community self-determination. Simmen's editorial arrangement places literary representation within that contemporary struggle over who possessed the authority to describe Mexican American life. Rather than treating all selections as equally authentic the book exposes the historical progression from sentimentalized or derogatory types toward narratives shaped by Chicano memory language and social experience. Light wear to wrapper edges and corners visible spine creasing without loss of structural integrity light page toning and a small crease at the upper-right corner of the front wrapper; contents otherwise unmarked. Very good. An important Chicano Movement-era anthology documenting the transition from outsider representation to Mexican American literary self-definition. unknown books
1945Best.-Nr. 13049Paris Editions De Minuit 1945 In-8 136 pp, partiellement insolé, coupures sur mors et manques en tête et queue. textes de Vercors, paul Eluard, Charles Vildrac, J. Rivière, Henri Heine, John Steinbeck.
1945Best.-Nr. 29590Paris Editions de Minuit 1945 3 vol. broché Série complète de ces Cahiers destinés à promouvoir une nouvelle littérature engagée, sur le modèle des "Chroniques interdites" parues sous l'Occupation. Textes, entre autres, de Eluard, Paulhan, Steinbeck, Thimerais, Vercors, Vildrac, etc. - Epuisés chez l'éditeur. Vignes, p. 351. Bon état général, le premier cahier non coupé.
1945Best.-Nr. 29590Paris Editions de Minuit 1945 3 vol. broché Série complète de ces Cahiers destinés à promouvoir une nouvelle littérature engagée, sur le modèle des "Chroniques interdites" parues sous l'Occupation. Textes, entre autres, de Eluard, Paulhan, Steinbeck, Thimerais, Vercors, Vildrac, etc. - Epuisés chez l'éditeur. Vignes, p. 351. Bon état général, le premier cahier non coupé.
Best.-Nr. 40569Jena, in der Göpferdtschen Verlagsbuchhandlung 1813, 350x220mm, 2 Bl. 110Seiten, demi-veau à coins, dos muet, quelques rousseurs.
1795Best.-Nr. 56383BBGera, bey Gottlieb Heinrich Jllgen. 1795. Folio. Gestochener Titel mit Titelvignette, 109 (recte 111) S. Schlichter Pappband der Zeit.
2019Best.-Nr. BN5681302019. 2019. Christian Education' in Tansania Christian Education' in Tansania Lukas Steinbeck unknown
