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1941403859New York: The Viking Press 1941. 8vo. 185 pp. 60 black-and-white photographs by John Swope. Original decorated cloth. A very good copy without the jacket. FIRST EDITION. A wonderful association copy warmly inscribed by 8 of the 10 members of the first crew of the B-24 Liberator Bomber "Billie B" to the woman for whom the plane was named by its first pilot 1st Lt. Joseph Robins Littlepage. Nearly full-page inscriptions by the pilot navigator and co-pilot in blue ink on the front pastedown and the front free endpaper as well as by the crew engineer assistant crew engineer radioman assistant radioman and one of the gunners in blue ink on the rear free endpapers. The pilot's inscription reads "To Billie - / From the skipper to her namesake. There isn't much I could tell you other than we are just another combat crew tryin to bring our standards up to the finest ship ever built 42-40076 the Billie "B" / JR Littlepage / First Pilot" The navigator's inscription reads "May 16 1943 / Hi Billie - / Tho I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you I feel that I already know you. However I still have hopes of meeting you in the near future. In the meantime I'll keep doing my darndest to navigate your name sake safely to her targets and back again. / Best wishes from the navigator / James H. Scholl / Gonzales Texas" The co-pilot's inscription reads "Hello Billie - / We are all waiting for the day that we can introduce you to the "Billie B." However from the way Joe talks it won't be a fair comparison. We will all be seeing you. / Until then - George L. Goddard / co-pilot". The inscription by S/Sgt. Harold A. Denison Asst Crew Engineer is a charming 4-line attempt at poetry. The other inscriptions are by S/Sgt. Thomas R. Brady Jr. Gunner T/Sgt. Cyril B. Cluff Jr. Radioman/Gunner and S/Sgt. Clifford H. Muhlhausen Asst. Radioman. Below that of S/Sgt. Harold Hutton Justus Crew Engineer is this moving addition by the pilot "Note - / I'd rather fly without one of the engines than leave him on the ground loyal to the crew faithful at his work and loves the ship as I do -- the Air Corps has none as good - the country none better - / J.R.L." In addition the pilot has annotated 49 of the 60 B&W photos the accompany Steinbeck's journalistic account of the training of a typical flight crew. The notes are often amusing: the captions of pictures of a B-17 and a B-24 on facing pages were modified to read "Boeing B-17E commonly known as the Flying Fortress Junk Heaps" and "Consolidated B-24 commonly known as the Liberator Billie 'B'"; in many cases they are merely informative aimed at telling her name sake about crew activities and features of the plane; and sometimes touching beneath the chapter opening photograph of a pilot 1st Lt. Littlepage has added "And don't think he's not scared". The only members not represented are 1st Lt. Leonard Barton Conway Bombadier and S/Sgt. William Posledni Gunner. The newly commissioned B-24 Liberator Bomber "Billie B" 42-40076 was assigned to the 13th Air Force 307th Bombardment Group "The Long Rangers" 370th Bomber Squadron and was first stationed at Carney Field Guadalcanal on May 29 1943 with this crew flying missions until July 3 when the plane was grounded for repairs. On July 6 the 10-man crew was assigned to another plane for a bombing mission to Bougainville Island and the plane and crew was lost at sea on its way back from the Philippines. The "Billie B" was assigned to a replacement crew and went on to serve valiantly in the South Pacific until the end of August 1944. . <br/><br/> The Viking Press hardcover books
022616New York; 1976: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 3631pp. From the Winchester Manuscripts of Thomas Malory and other sources. Steinbeck wrote this story in present day speech for his young sons and for other sons not so young. He did not rewrite the original story. He wanted to write about Caxton which was his first love but decided to write Malory's King Arthur a more exciting tale. Bound in maroon cloth stamped in blind spine lettering gilt a handsome copy in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with tiny crease to corner of front flap and a crease to rear flap some fading to spine and a closed tear to upper edge of front panel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
1941123887New York: The Viking Press 1941. First edition of this classic work. Octavo original cloth cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy inscribed by John Steinbeck on the title page. Some offsetting to the half-title page near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by W.V. Eckhardt. The collaboration of two friends--one a novelist one a marine biologist--produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man's dreams his ideals and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely Gulf of California it will be science to the scientist philosophy to the philosopher and to the average man an adventure in living and thinking. The teeming and wildly competitive world of the sand flats is seen in terms of history politics ethics and sociology; a starfish is important not only because it is a new variety but because it is essential to the delicate balance of the whole region in which it is found. Steinbeck and Ricketts are the opposite of "pure" scientists: it is not only their work that fascinates them but the complicated and enormously exciting implications of that work. The Viking Press hardcover books
197823729New York: Caedmon 1978. First edition thus. LP. Near fine. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album no. TC 1570. Vinyl and album cover both near fine. Toning to paper record sleeve. Side 1: 32:07. Side 2: 25:38 <br/><br/>Excerpted reading of Steinbeck's novel by Henry Fonda star of the 1940 film adaptation shown on the album cover as Tom Joad. Liner notes by journalist Jacques Levy biographer of Cesar Chavez. Caedmon unknown books
19511941n. p.: American Institute of Graphic Arts 1951. Fine. Comments by Van Wyck Brooks Pearl S. Buck Erskine Caldwell Dorothy Canfield John Dos Passos John Hersey John Steinbeck Lionel Trilling Thornton Wilder and William Carlos Williams. N. p. Bound in publisher's original printed wraps. Goldstone and Payne B66. <br/><br/> American Institute of Graphic Arts paperback books
1960318193New York 1960. 1 page single sheet 10 East 63rd St. stationery. With note at bottom in Elaine Steinbeck's hand "At Oscar's Hammerstein's death". 8vo. Fine. 1 page single sheet 10 East 63rd St. stationery. With note at bottom in Elaine Steinbeck's hand "At Oscar's Hammerstein's death". 8vo. "Thank you for your note. Knowing you and Elaine so well my sympathy goes to you too. We are sharing our sorrow. It is even harder to write this to you than to many others. My love to you both."<br/><br/>Hammerstein and Rodgers worked with Steinbeck on the Tony-nominated musical Pipe Dream which premiered on Broadway on November 30 1955 based on Steinbeck's short novel Sweet Thursday. unknown books
196322443Paris: Gallimard NRF. 1963. Hardcover. #8565 of 10250. Fine in very good slipcase. Includes French translations of OF MICE AND MEN THE GRAPES OF WRATH IN DUBIOUS BATTLE and CANNERY ROW.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Gallimard NRF hardcover books
194013957New York: Limited Editions Club Booklets for Bookmen I. 1940. First Edition. 32pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Very fine in the original wrappers and with the original mailing envelope. First Edition. 32pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Jackson's essay is on pp. 3-15; the booklet also contains A.A. Milne's now famous essay on The Wind in the Willows later used as the introduction to the LEC edition. Goldstone & Payne G23 Limited Editions Club, Booklets for Bookmen, I. unknown books
196655056New York: The Viking Press 1966. First edition of Steinbeck's final book. Quarto original half cloth illustrated cartographic endpapers. With 136 pages of photographs 24 in full color by 55 of the most prominent American photographers of the era including Ansel Adams Sam Siegel and Todd Webb. Association copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "For John Updike with admiration John Steinbeck." American author John Steinbeck published his most notable works between 1937 Of Mice and Men and 1952 East of Eden and was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940 and Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. One of the most prolific American authors from the early 1960s until his death in 2009 fellow recipient of the Pulitzer Prize John Updike identified Steinbeck as one of his literary heroes at a young age. Both writers' works explored themes of crises related to faith injustice and family dynamics applied to small town 'everyman' protagonists. Both Steinbeck and Updike wrote in a realist tradition featuring their own distinctively rich and imaginative vocabulary and style of prose. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Jacket design by Christopher Harris. Photograph of Steinbeck to the rear panel by Paul Farber. From the library of John Updike. An exceptional association linking two of the greatest writers of twentieth century America. Steinbeck's final book America and Americans combines the talents of the Nobel Prize-winning author and 55 of the most prominent American photographers of the era. The result is a spectacular portrait of America with its vital array of scenic beauty and human variousness with rich feature articles exploring the American government American people Americans as they relate to their land and the paradox and dream of the pursuit of happiness. The Viking Press hardcover books
1976110783Thin 8vo. South San Francisco: Manroot 1976. Thin 8vo 32 unnumbered pp. printed in blue and black inks. With a five page response by Robert Peters. Original blue wrappers upper cover with a drawing by Jose Laffitte bound with a blue cord uncut. Plain dust jacket. As new publisher’s prospectus for future titles loosely inserted. § Number 30 of 250 numbered copies printed by Clive Matson and Peter Lewis at the Neon Sun. Morrow 698 -- the poems are now attributed to Carol Henning Steinbeck's first wife. Manroot unknown books
1976110784Thin 8vo. South San Francisco: Manroot 1976. Thin 8vo 32 unnumbered pp. printed in blue and black inks. With a five page response by Robert Peters. Original blue wrappers upper cover with a drawing by Jose Laffitte bound with a blue cord uncut. Plain dust jacket. As new publisher’s prospectus for future titles loosely inserted. § Number 108 of 250 numbered copies printed by Clive Matson and Peter Lewis at the Neon Sun. Morrow 698 -- the poems are now attributed to Carol Henning Steinbeck's first wife. Manroot unknown books
19482059New York: Viking Press 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Photographs by Robert Capa. A nice copy of the book but in a worn and ravaged DJ. <br/><br/> Viking Press hardcover books
196413330New York: Privately Printed 1964. First Edition one of 200 copies for private distribution. Half-tone portrait. 1 vols. 8vo. Decorated paper boards black morocco spine. Fine copy of a very rare Steinbeck piece. First Edition one of 200 copies for private distribution. Half-tone portrait. 1 vols. 8vo. One of 200 Copies. With a 2pp. essay by Steinbeck about John Emery. Not in Goldstone & Payne Privately Printed unknown books
1949WRCLIT67406North Hollywood: Republic Pictures 1949. Vintage 11 x 14" pictorial lobby card. About fine. Card #7 of the sequence issued to promote the 1949 film adaptation of Steinbeck's story directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Myrna Loy Robert Mitchum Peter Miles and Louis Calhern. Steinbeck is credited with having a major hand in the script. Republic Pictures unknown books
1980WRCLIT47706Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co. 1980. 1136 leaves plus lettered inserts. Quarto. Photoduplicated typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Upper wrapper faintly smudged mild use at edges very good. A "final" draft of this adaptation though incorporating a multitude of additional subsequent revises on colored papers spanning the dates above. As well as scripting the adaptation Ward directed the well-received 1982 film starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co. unknown books
1982WRCLIT76359Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1982. Eight 8x10" color mini lobby cards. About fine. A complete set of the mini lobby cards issued to promote the film adaptation by screenwriter and director David S. Ward derived from two novels by John Steinbeck taking the bulk of its story and its title from Steinbeck's CANNERY ROW and some elements from SWEET THURSDAY. The film starred Nick Nolte Debra Winger et al. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer unknown books
1940WRCLIT77070Los Angeles: 2oth Century-Fox 1940. Original 8 x 10" glossy b&w still. Mild smudge on blank verso otherwise fine. A highly atmospheric character portrait of Jane Darwell as Ma Joad in John Ford's 1940 film version of Steinbeck's novel a role for which she won an Academy Award. This is one of a sequence of such portraits that were made of the main characters featuring a stark single light from the characters lower right. Emmett Schoenbaum is generally credited as the still photographer for the production. 2oth Century-Fox unknown books
1950WRCLIT79698Vienna & Leipzig 1950. Two 4pp. folded leaflets quarto and octavo. Heavily illustrated. One is two-hole punched for binder otherwise fine. Two examples of the promotional programs for the German language release of the 1947 film adaptation of Steinbeck's novella for which he also cowrote the screenplay. The larger more heavily illustrated is the PROGRESS FILM PROGRAMM 62/64 and the other the ILLUSTRIERTES FILM PROGRAMM number 182. unknown books
1940WRCLIT77071Los Angeles: 2oth Century-Fox 1940. Five original 8 x 10" glossy b&w stills. Pencil numbers on two versos otherwise near fine. Thomas Hart Benton prepared several works as publicity pieces for John Ford's 1940 film version of Steinbeck's novel most famously a version of THE DEPARTURE OF THE JOADS that was incorporated in several of the differing styles of posters. He also prepared a series of portraits of the characters but these were not incorporated in the posters but rather utilized in the theatre program that was offered at the opening exhibitions of the film. They were also reproduced in the form of six stills according to the negative numbers - only five are present here evidently in very limited quantities as they are quite scarce. Apart from an appearance by this same group at auction in 2008 we've not encountered another. 2oth Century-Fox unknown books
1957WRCLIT76320Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox 1957. Eight 11 x 14 color pictorial studio lobby cards. Spot of browning in lower left corner of card #4 same faintly in corner of title card small chip from blank corner of card #5 a few small pin holes from display use as intended distributor's stamp and annotations on a few versos; a very good set. A complete set of the color pictorial lobby cards issued to promote Ivan Moffat's adaptation of Steinbeck's novel directed by Victor Vicas starring Joan Collins Jayne Mansfield Dan Dailey et al. Although the film was released in b&w the scenes here are in tinted colors. Accompanied by duplicates of cards 3 soiled and 8 2 copies with edge tears. 20th Century Fox unknown books
1980WRCLIT75461Beverley Hills: BNB Productions Inc. 1980. 1119 leaves with revises affecting sequence on occasion. Quarto. Photomechanically duplicated typescript printed on rectos only of white salmon and blue stock. Bradbound with lower wrapper only. Light use at corners a couple of revisions in ink and pencil; very good. A revised draft of the teleplay for the first episode of three of this mini-series adaptation of Steinbeck's novel. It was broadcast in 1981 with a running time of 480 minutes. Harvey Hart directed a cast that included Timothy Bottoms Jane Seymour Bruce Boxleitner Karen Allen Warren Oates et al. The production earned nominations and a few wins from both the Golden Globes and the Emmys. BNB Productions, Inc. unknown books
1942Embry 122182The Viking Press 1942. First edition first printing. Spine with some lean and darkened a shade. Spine tips rubbed and with a ding to upper front panel still a good copy with hinges firm in a very good dust jacket with a few shallow chips and tiny creases to upper edges and with some toning and a short closed tear to rear panel in mylar cover. Written for the U.S. Army Air Forces. Inscribed by the author "For six lessons from Madame John." The Viking Press, 1942. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1936Embry 141472Covici Friede New York: 1936. Second edition with out Covici Friede imprint on spine and with both 1929 and 1936 copyright dates on verso of title page. Neatly inked name to front pastedown else fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with minor toning to spine panel and faint rub spot to tip of spine. In mylar cover. Covici Friede, New York: [1936]. Second edition, with out Covici Friede imprint on spine and with both 1929 and 1936 copyrig unknown books
1936Embry 134865Covici Friede New York: 1936. Second edition with out Covici Friede imprint on spine and with both 1929 and 1936 copyright dates on verso of title page. Some mild spotting to edges spine slightly dull overall near fine in near fine dust jacket with a few tiny chips toning to spine and light rubbing to folds and all four flap corners clipped in mylar cover. Covici Friede, New York: [1936]. Second edition, with out Covici Friede imprint on spine and with both 1929 and 1936 copyrig unknown books
195251602bdNew York: The Viking Press 1952. First Edition First State. Octavo green cloth hardcover red spine label 602 pp. Very Good with light foxing to covers and page edges; in a Good mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. Photographs gladly provided upon request. From dust jacket: .East of Eden is an American saga running in time from the Civil War to the First World War in place from a Connecticut farm to a California valley. Essentially it is the story of one family the Trasks -- a father and his twin sons and their errant mother. What happens to the Trasks against the background of what is happening to others gives the book its storytelling drive and also its human significance. Here is the infinite variety of life itself: scenes of viciousness and of deep tenderness passages of violent brutality side by side with stretches of cheerful contentment. There is heartbreak as well as comedy; meanness and corruption on one hand common kindness on the other. Its concern for individuals is intimate its humanity broad. The mood is by turns historic and personal reminiscent and inventive. Within the novel’s flexible frame the author finds room for lyrical flights and leisurely digressions that most writers would not dare permit themselves while at other points he writes with a staccato tenseness equaled only by the best of the “hard-boiled†school. The scope of East of Eden can hardly be suggested by an outline of the story. Adam Trask brings his strange wife in 1900 to settle in the Salinas Valley. John Steinbeck’s own forebears the Hamiltons -- a wonderfully gusty and varied crew -- had been in the valley for years before and through them we already know its history its colors and its moods and are at home in it when the Trasks arrive. We also know the story of the calculating girl whom Adam had found on his Connecticut doorstep and married. After twin sons are born Cathy leaves to return to a career more familiar to her and eventually to become the fabulous Kate owner of Salinas’s fanciest brothel. Cathy is possibly one of the most fascinating hateful characters in modern fiction. Her story might have been a novel in itself. The rich and respected Adam blighted within rears his sons with the help of a worldly-wise Chinese and with friendly advice from the Hamiltons. As the boys grow older the inevitable disclosure threatens and the reader watches with mounting tension to see how Aron the ‘good’ son and Caleb who carries the strains of both good and evil will stand up under the blow. Along with these there are a dozen other characters we come to know well. Chief of them are Steinbeck’s Hamilton grandfather a mellow and inventive Irishman and his tiny and determined wife; the big-hearted but self-tortured uncle Tom who stays on at the ranch; and Aunt Dessie who lives cheerfully for others. Finally there is the attractive young girl Abra who plays a determining role in the lives of the twins. Each is an individual rounded with life and the book is an assertion of the individual human soul with its God-given power to choose between good and evil. In recognizing this burden the characters take on a stature that makes them spokesmen for the struggling human race. The Viking Press, 1952. First Edition, First State. hardcover books
