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1939015245The Viking Press 1939. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy in a Near Fine Plus Jacket. First Edition First Issue with First Edition on Lower Flap. $2.75 on Front Flap.Excellent Copy Of This Classic Masterpiece. Small Personal Bookshop Label on Front Paste Down. Rare In this Condition. The Viking Press Hardcover books
1936WRCLIT55686New York: Pynson Printers 1936. Cloth and marbled boards. Illustrations by Donald McKay. Very minor wear to fore-tips otherwise fine in chipped and worn glassine. First separate edition with a new epilogue. One of a total edition of 370 copies. This is one of the copies without an imprint for one of the subscribers but has been signed in place of the subscriber's name by Elmer Alder and denoted by him as for presentation to Walter Pforzheimer. As principal of the Pynson Printers Adler is recorded as having subscribed for fifty copies for distribution; it is also possible that he distributed some out-of-series copies as well. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A2f. Pynson Printers] hardcover books
19392005303New York: Viking Press 1939. First. hardcover. Very good/Very good. Correct first edition with correct statement on copyright page in a later edition dust jacket and with the front flap from the first edition dust jacket with the First Edition statement in the corner of the flap laid in. Viking Press unknown books
1939180622007New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 619 pp. First edition first printing. Publisher's original oatmeal cloth with brown lettering "Battle Hymn of the Republic" end sheets. Very Good with light staining to edge of page block foxing to endsheets. In a Good dust jacket with publisher's price of $2.75 and "First Edition" statement present on front flap; small interior chip to spine panel and moderate chip to top of rear panel reattached with mending tissue from the verso; edge wear toning to spine with splits started at the tail joints. A good starter copy. The Viking Press hardcover books
1945003112New York: Viking 1945. Steinbeck John. THE RED PONY. New York: Viking Press 1945. Illustrations by Wesley Dennis. First Illustrated Edition in original publisher's gray woven cloth lettered in gilt on a blue decorative spine with a full color illustration of the red pony on the front cover. First published in 1937 as a signed limited edition but much enhanced here by Wesley Dennis's watercolors. A Near Fine copy bit of rub to the spine gilt. Adapted into the 1949 Republic film starring Robert Mitchum and Myrna Loy and directed by Lewis Milestone from a screenplay by John Steinbeck himself. This is a PRESENTATION COPY<i> "Given to Fay/ by Myrna Loy/ August 1947."</i> It is further signed by 29 other members of the cast and crew including Director Lewis Milestone Actors Robert Mitchum Peter Miles and Myrna Loy signing yet again. In adapting THE RED PONY into a screenplay Steinbeck chose a much happier ending and toned down some of the violence but it is still an unsentimental and important coming-of-age tale which continues to be admired today. The film's orchestral suite by Aaron Copeland was nominated by the American Film Institute as one of the 250 best film scores of all time. Not a rare book unless you acquire this exceedingly special copy. First Illustrated Edition. Decorative Boards. Near Fine. Illus. by Wesley Dennis. Viking hardcover books
196028275N.p. n.d. but circa 1960 1960. Hinged on the verso of a board and matted which should probably be replaced. Original wooden frame preserved but chipped and worn. 27 x 20 cm signed on the verso in pencil by the photographer William Ward Beecher. A photographic portrait of John Steinbeck taken by artist William Ward Beecher 1921-2006 a descendant of the famous New England Beechers. How many portraits were produced from this one sitting is not recorded but there were at least two: this one and a similar one that was used in 1961 on the rear panel of the dust jacket of Winter of Our Discontent. This one which apparently was not published was the personal property of John and Elaine Steinbeck and was sold as part of the remains of their estate in February 2020. Betty and William Ward Beecher and the Steinbecks were apparently friends. The Beechers had books inscribed to them by John Steinbeck and the Steinbecks owned a few of Beecher's lithographs and paintings. <br/><br/> N.p., n.d. [but circa 1960] unknown books
000300Privately Printed 1964 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Cloth. As New/As New. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ruth Ford's copy signed by her. She was married to Zachary Scott. Privately Printed, 1964 Hardcover books
19381244190New York: The Viking Press 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; G/VG-; SIGNED by Steinbeck on half-title; Spine somewhat cocked; boards very rubbed at extremities; front hinge starting and spine cracked in several places. Damp stains to boards and mild water damage to text; sporadic soiling throughout. dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut '$2.50'; mild rubbing to dust jacket slight chipping to head of spine; Scarce signed. KT Consignment. Shelved in Case 2. The print run of this edition was very small limited to only 8000 copies. 1244190. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Viking Press hardcover books
1935180102014New York: Covici Friede 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition second issue. Very Good with foxing to cloth tiny pin-holes to cloth at front gutter previous owner name to front paste down. In a Very Good dust jacket with price intact small closed tear to bottom of front panel near flap fold with light associated creasing has been neatly mended from the verso toning to spine panel light soiling. One of 900 copies of the second issue. Goldstone & Payne A3b. Covici Friede hardcover books
19391341994New York: Viking Press 1939. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 619 pages; VG/G; dust jacket spine tan and pictorial with blue and black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut '$2.75'; dust jacket has mild wear to corners chipping to head and tail of spine open tear causing half of the 'A' in 'Grapes' on the front cover to be missing crease along middle of front cover; small 'T3-1' in red ink to front flap; 1939 date and name in ink to ffep; front flap states first edition; copyright page states "First published in April 1939"; endpapers with "Battle Hymn of the Republic; shelved case 2. 1341994. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Viking Press hardcover books
1969125017Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1969. First edition of Galbraith's personal account of his tenure as the 7th United States Ambassador to India. Octavo original cloth illustrated. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication "For Elaine Steinbeck with much love from John Galbraith - 1969." The recipient Elaine Steinbeck and her husband great American writer John Steinbeck first met Galbraith in the early 1950s while on a holiday on St. John in the Virgin Islands and he and John would exchange letters for years following this initial meeting. Although known for being an economist Galbraith had a background in agriculture majoring in animal husbandry and received his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in agricultural economics from the University of California Berkeley so he was well acquainted with the issues that were brought to light in Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath. He and Steinbeck were both passionate about politics and worked together on Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign. The Steinbecks attended JFK's inauguration with the Galbraiths and their discussions regarding JFK's inauguration speech were recorded on video as part of Robert Drew's documentary for ABC Close-up show called "Adventures on the New Frontier." Galbraith's works influenced many of Steinbeck's later books including Travels with Charley America and Americans and The Winter of our Discontent. From the library of John and Elaine Steinbeck. Very good in a very good dust jacket. A few days after the election in 1960 President Kennedy called Mr. Galbraith to tell him he was to be his Ambassador to India. As he tells here Mr. Galbraith decided that it would be an interesting time and resolved to keep a journal. So he did and this is it. Never before has there been such an expert account of exactly what an American ambassador does. The work remains one of the most readable and by all odds relaxed books on the Kennedy years. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1937005861Covici Friede 1937. Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket $2.00 on flap.The Play Version.Gutters lightly foxed.Common for this book.Rare in this condition.Beautiful Copy.Ink name on pastedown. Covici Friede Hardcover books
1938014144The Viking Press 1938. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Beautiful Copy Fine Copy without Gutter Offset $2.50 on Flap.Unfaded Spine Both Book & Dust jacket Rare In this Condition Excellent Fresh Copy of Author's Book. The Viking Press Hardcover books
1945JS042New York: The Viking Press 1945 First edition advance issue in the publisher's blue wrappers. An excellent copy with only some minor fading to spine else fine. Cannery Row is a Depression-era novel set in Monterey California. The plot takes place on a grungy street with "the gathered and scattered tin and iron and rust and splintered wood chipped pavement and weedy lots junk heaps sardine canneries of corrugated iron honky tonks restaurants and whore houses and little crowded groceries and laboratories and flophouses." The actual street in Monterey has since been renamed "Cannery Row" in honor of this iconic novel. The plot features an unlikely cast of characters including a marine biologist a grocer a restaurateur and a group of local vagabonds. Cannery Row is exemplar of Steinbeck's talent for making even the most unsavory characters relatable and endearing; Mack and his group of homeless squatters are described as "gentlemen and philosophers united by a common dislike of a steady job and a mutual feeling for the pleasures of living according to their lights." Much of the inspiration for this novel and its 1954 sequel Sweet Thursday were drawn from the author's own life; Steinbeck was born in Monterey County grew up knowing fishermen and other laborers and was close friends with a marine biologist Ed Ricketts who worked on the real Cannery Row. First Edition. Fine. New York: The Viking Press unknown books
1929JS052New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1929 First edition first printing of Steinbeck's first book. A very good or better copy with a lightly faded spine minor rubbing to the extremities some offsetting and a very minor abrasion on the front endpaper with a former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Overall in very good condition. Cup of Gold is Steinbeck's first novel and only piece of historical fiction. The book is loosely based on the pirate Henry Morgan whose two main goals are to conquer Panama City the "cup of gold" and to win the heart of La Santa Roja a woman rumored to be as beautiful as the sun. Although this was his first work and is somewhat unique in plot Cup of Gold shows the author's early interest in themes he continued to use throughout his career as a writer: piracy and myth. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company hardcover books
19393545New York: Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear hint of toning at spine light toning at hinges minor dust staining at top of text block else tight bright and unmarred. DJ shows moderate shelf/edge wear focused at head tips and flap folds minor chipping at head and tips bottom half of spine missing facsimile laid under light toning overall slightly heavier at spine else clean and bright. Beige cloth boards brown ink lettering and pictorial elements pictorial end pages music sheet. 8vo. 619pp. <br/><br/>"First Edition" at lower tab of front flap. Noted flaws in the DJ notwithstanding a very presentable copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning classic. Viking Press hardcover books
1939WRCLIT66975New York: Viking Press 1939. Cloth pictorial endsheets. First edition first printing. Ugly generic bookplate on front pastedown under jacket flap and repeated on verso of free endsheet endsheets a bit darkened at gutters otherwise about very good in bit shelfworn dust jacket with shallow losses around the crown and toe of the spine panel and a small chip in the upper spine fold but with the original price and "First Edition" statement intact on the front flap. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE 12a. HANNA 3341. BAIRD & GREENWOOD 2333. COAN & LILLARD p.76. POWELL HEART 103. Viking Press hardcover books
1938160399New York: The Viking Press 1938. Octavo title page printed in red and black original terra cotta cloth with beige buckram shelf back spine and rear panels stamped in terra cotta top edge stained terra cotta. First edition. Steinbeck's first collection of short fiction. Goldstone and Payne A11a. Spine panel a bit tanned age-darkening along gutter margins a common occurrence with this book and here about average a nearly fine copy in nearly fine pictorial dust jacket priced $2.50 on the front flap with rubbing at upper spine end and upper corner tips and light tanning to spine panel and lower edge of the front flap. A very nice copy. #160399 The Viking Press unknown books
1937140940708New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. First Edition. Very Good. First edition; limited issue copy number 112 of a 699 signed by John Steinbeck. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in pale red and blue. Very Good with some areas of browning to cloth corresponding to chips in the glassine textblock edge toned and foxed. Tattered glassine wrapper is toned and spine panel perished. In publisher's original slipcase with correct limitation number penned on spine worn at the extremities and toned. Signed by the author. Covici Friede Publishers unknown books
193721167New York: Covici Friede 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pictorial cream cloth. Near fine in original publisher's slipcase. 81 pages. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition copy 343 of 699 signed by John Steinbeck set in monotype Italian Oldstyle printed on hand-made La Garde paper and printed by the Pynson Printers under the supervision of Elmer Adler. Steinbeck's novella in which the first three chapters were published in magazines 1933-1936 -- stories of a boy's life on a California ranch. Small bump front cover lower corner. Covici Friede hardcover books
010555Book. Fine. Soft cover. Presentation By Author. 8 1/2 X 11 on Yellow Legal Pad in Pencil ALS unsigned Fulbright Recommendation for Neighbor.Approx 50 Words. Excellent Content."I have know Mr.Talkington quite well and have seen his work over the years and found it impressive. I believe him capable of fulfilling the requirements for this grant. If I were a member of the acceptance committee I should certainly approve his application." Awesome Letter. Paperback books
19521903022Viking Press 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A near fine first edition first printing in a near fine dust jacket with the original price of $4.50 still on the front flap. Small piece of clear tape on the inside of the jacket not visible from the outside. Could be removed. Viking Press hardcover books
19630082961963. Book. Fine. 8 X10 Matted to 11x20. Fine laminated 8x10 TLS from John Steinbeck to Leon Uris on NYC Letterhead Dated February 11 1963. "Dear Mr. Uris: What a great thrill it was for me to receive your letter! When an author such as yourself takes time and trouble to write such a charming and gracious letterit is high praise indeed! May I be permitted to say in return that I consider you too to be one our country's leading novelists and sincerely wish you every continued sucess. Thank you again for writing You have made me proud. John Steinbeck." Incredible Letter. unknown books
1936274072New York: Pynson Printers 1936. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Illustrations by Donald McKay. Thin 8vo marbled boards with orange cloth spine; very minor edge-wear. New York: Pynson Printers 1936. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> Of 370 copies this is one of 50 made at the request of Edwin J. Beinecke who has presented it to Robert Borthwick Adam of the famous book collecting family. Borthwick's name is inscribed in the colophon and there is an additional Christmas greeting on the front fly-leaf to Adam signed by Beinecke whose leather bookplate is affixed to the end-paper and has offset onto the fly-leaf.<br/><br/> Pynson Printers unknown books
1943005404The Rowfant Club 1943. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. Limited/Numbered. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Near fine copy.Front lower point stained 2 inches across going into text of the book.Extremely rare 1/152 number copies.Facsimile letter at the end by John Steinbeck Dated 1942.Incredibly Scarce. The Rowfant Club Hardcover books
