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1942150901007New York: The Viking Press 1942. Advance Reading Copy. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Advance reading copy in self-wraps. First state text with a dot between "talk" and "this" on page 112 line 11. Good. Lean to spine. Joints fragile with rubbing and splits started. A bit of excess binder's glue visible at front fold. Pages toned. Very rare in this format. The Viking Press hardcover books
19563796Paris: Rene Julliard 1956. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Smal Octavo. Regular trade issue. Translated from the English edition by Jean Francois Rozen. 1546p. Bound in yellow pictorial wraps lettered and decorated in black and red. A very good copy. Text in French. G&P A35 b. <br/><br/> Rene Julliard paperback books
194112773JCarmel California: Volume 15 Number 10 1941. First Edition. A local newspaper printed on fine quality white paper for the community in which Steinbeck was then living. Contains a written statement by Steinbeck on the censorship attempts to suppress his film The Forgotten Village. Fine fresh copy. The front page has a large photograph of Steinbeck. Volume 15, Number 10 unknown books
19361312571New York: Covici Fride 1936. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 349 pages; VG-/none; with facsimile dust jacket; bound in orange cloth with black lettering and red lines; small closed tear to head of spine; binding slightly loose; small closed tear to gutter of title page; discoloration to title page presumably from newspaper; top edge of text block red; shelved case 2. 1312571. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Covici Fride hardcover books
003248Viking Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First edition 1950. Book near fine except for slight wear at spine ends slight discoloration on end-papers. DJ near fine except for slight rubbing slight chipping at top of spine and corners slight discoloration on top edge of back flap w/ slight creasing on top edge of back flap spine and inside DJ. Viking Press hardcover books
19621312049The Viking Press 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in very good dust jacket. First Edition with no mention of later printings on the copyright page. Price clipped. Jacket has some minor chipping and minor soiling; spine is slightly sun faded. Book is nice and clean and square. The Viking Press hardcover books
1975011408Viking Press 1975. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Presentation By Author. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In like Jacket. Review Copy. Presentation Copy."For Judy with my warm affection and in appreciation for the ties that bind us all in friendship Elaine Christmas 1976." Excellent copy. Viking Press Hardcover books
000448Humanitas Verlag Zurich 1940 Book. Very Good. F. Very Good. Advance copy of the first german edition of The Grapes Of Wrath. Humanitas Verlag Zurich, 1940 unknown books
1941009018Viking 1941. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Excellent copy.First Edition in Teal Boards.Scarce Book.Without Jacket.Light wear to heel. Journal of Ricketts & Steinbeck in Sea of Cortez. Viking Hardcover books
1964Embry 196199Privately Printed 1964. First edition one of 200 copies. Small chip to head of spine some rubbing to joints neatly colored to match lower front corner just showing overall very good in custom mylar cover. Black leather backed patterned boards. Service date and place tipped onto title page. Privately Printed, 1964. First edition, one of 200 copies. hardcover books
193617901New York: Covici-Friede 1936. Second Edition. Octavo; navy blue cloth with titles and decoration stamped in gilt on spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; 269pp. Offsetting to pastedowns rough erasure to former owners name on front endpaper with the topstain a bit dulled; Near Fine. In the correct dustjacket without mention of the publisher's name and with the addition of Of Mice and Men to front panel; price-clipped evenly browned overall with wear along edges and corners and a few short tears to same and a small tape mend on verso; Very Good. The author's first book. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A1c. Covici-Friede unknown books
19364415New York: Covici Friede 1936. First edition of the 1936 re-issue of the author's first book. Octavo original blue cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the lightest of rubbing. A nice example. From the mid-1650s through the 1660s Henry Morgan a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America striking terror wherever he went. Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions: to possess the beautiful woman called La Santa Roja and to conquer Panama the "cup of gold." Steinbecks first novel and sole work of historical fiction. Covici Friede hardcover books
003257Viking Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First edition first issue 1942. Top edge of pages blue somewhat faded though; pg 112 line 11 - period dropped between ' talk' & 'this.' Book near fine with ex libris bookplate on front paste-down traces of removed bookplate on front paste-down slight discoloration on end-papers. DJ price-clipped slight rubbing and chipping at spine ends and corners slight discoloration on spine top edges of flaps back and inside DJ else near fine. Viking Press hardcover books
1947160403New York: The Viking Press 1947. Octavo drawings by José Clemente Orozco original pictorial brown cloth stamped in black top edge stained green. First edition first printing A parable based on an old Mexican folk tale. Goldstone and Payne A25a. Top edge stain faded else a fine copy in very good dust jacket priced $2.00 on the front flap with wear along top and bottom edges mainly at spine ends and faded spine panel. The jacket is the variant with Steinbeck looking to his left. A nice copy overall. #160403 The Viking Press unknown books
19622007006New York: Viking 1962. First. hardcover. Very good./Very good. A very good first edition in a very good dust jacket with the original price still on the front flap. Tape residue on front and rear cloth boards. Viking 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
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
1970WRCLIT63206Aptos CA: Grace Hoper Press 1970. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Facsimiles. Minor use at overlap edges two tiny spots inherent in paper stock of final blank but about fine. First edition. One of 150 copies printed at the Grace Hoper Press for a joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. Includes a facsimile of an a.l.s. by Steinbeck and of an annotated typescript of his translation of a Ukrainian poem into a completely imaginary language. The present copy is the variant in white wrappers with the last leaf of the Introduction uncancelled. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A45a. [ Grace Hoper Press] unknown books
1950022320New York: The Viking Press 1950. First Edition. Octavo. 159pp. Steinbeck devised a new form the "play-novelette".a play that is easy to read or short novel that cam be played simply by lifting out the dialogue. Using this new method he presents a modern story with elements of a morality play concerned with basic human drives: love jealousy friendship the desire to have a child. This work provides some startling surprises as the scenes shift. A near fine copy bound in gray-beige cloth lettered in red spine lettering red in near fine unclipped dust jacket with some fading to spine as usual small closed tear near bottom edge of rear panel two minute nicks to dust jacket at front fold. A very nice clean copy without names or bookplates. The Viking Press unknown books
195817825New York: Viking Press 1958. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brown marbled paper over boards quarterbound in mustard yellow cloth with titles stamped in red on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; 233pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped but with the price scratched out subtle fading to spine and a touch of soil along rear flap fold. A later Steinbeck title though much nicer than usually encountered. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A37.a. Viking Press unknown books
1961TB30864New York: The Viking Press 1961. First Edition. Limited Edition Fine in dark blue cloth over beveled boards with gilt text on the spine as well as a black title label with gilt text and with the author's facsimile signature on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with light wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and with several closed tears to the top edge of the front panel. The jacket is also covered with the original clear acetate wrap-around onlay on which is printed "Limited Edition". One of only 500 limited edition "copies specially printed and bound for friends of the author and the publisher." 311 pages of text. Goldstone & Payne A38b The Viking Press hardcover books
1935144New York: Covici Fride 1935. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Good . Ruth Garnett . First edition first printing. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. 8vo. 317pp. Grey cloth titling in blue with coordinating horizontal line. Blue top edge stain.Clean and unmarked light soiling and lean to spine. No dust jacket. Covici Fride hardcover 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
1975014276The Viking Press 1975. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Autographed Note. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine Copy In Like Price Clipped Jacket First Edition ALS from Elaine Steinbeck About The Book to Friend Who Let her Know About The Death of John's Friend Nelson Valjean.Amazing Copy. The Viking Press Hardcover books
1937014628Covici Friede 1937. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Price Clipped Jacket 2nd Issue Without Period on Page 88 Rare In this Condition.Gorgeous Fresh Copy of His Short Masterpiece. Covici Friede Hardcover books
