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JD30866first edition. <br/><br/> This is a group of three carbon typescripts all with holographic corrections by Steinbeck and one carbon manuscript that comprise three chapters of what Farrar Straus & Giroux published as The Acts of King Arthur and His Nobel Knights in 1976 eight years after the death of Steinbeck and 17 years after the 1959 date these chapters were written the chapters are The Knight With The Two SwordsGawain Ewain and Marhalt and The Noble Tale of Sir Lancelot of the Lake this typescript and manuscript material totals 348 leafs on typing paper and sheets of lined legal-sized yellow notepaper housed within a green marbled custom folding box with leather spine with author's name and title in gilt are the carbon manuscript of The Noble Tale of Sir Lancelot of the Lake 81 leafs numbered 19-100 followed by 168 leafs of carbon typescript for this chapter with notes in Steinbeck's hand together with a blue marbled custom folding box with leather spine with author and title in gilt that houses the carbon typescript for The Knight With The Two Swords dated May 16 1959 being 22 leafs with many penciled corrections deletions and revisions by Steinbeck followed by Gawain Ewain and Marhalt noted in pencil as Section 5 and dated July 1959 being 72 leafs also with many ink corrections deletions and revisions in Steinbeck's hand Steinbeck's fascination with King Arthur began when his Aunt Mollie gave him a copy of The Boy's King Arthur when he was eight years old that book began a life-long affair with the written word and to his continued study of King Arthur he eventually tried to "translate" Arthur into modern English which Farrar Straus & Giroux eventually published after his death in his own introduction for that book Steinbeck wrote "I remember that words -- written or printed -- were devils and books because they gave me pain were my enemies.And then one day an aunt gave me a book and fatuously ignored my resentment. I stared at the black print with hatred and then gradually the pages opened and let me in. The magic happened.I think my sense of right and wrong my feelings of noblesse oblige and any thought I may have against the oppressor and for the oppressed came from this secret book". Expected wear. hardcover books
1939119562New York: The Viking Press 1939. First edition with "First Published in April 1939" on copyright page and first edition notice on the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo original beige cloth. Association copy playfully inscribed by the author on the title page "Continuing the tradition. To John H. Lyon go to hell! John Steinbeck." The recipient was John Henry Hobart Lyon an English professor at Columbia University and a friend of Steinbeck's. "Great names usually come in clusters for one creative scholar attracts others to work with him. The unforgettable Professor John Henry Hobart Lyon stirs his students by his lectures on Shakespeare romantic literature and the world's masterpieces" Coon p. 33. Lyon also taught a popular course called "Literature of Today" for which he invited well-known contemporary authors to lecture. Among those who appeared were Thomas Mann Kenneth Roberts Orson Welles Stephen Benet Erskine Caldwell Somerset Maugham Moss Hart and Eleanor Roosevelt. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Elmer Hader. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example with noted provenance. "The Grapes of Wrath is the kind of art thats poured out of a crucible in which are mingled pity and indignation Its power and importance do not lie in its political insight but in its intense humanity It is the American novel of the season probably the year possibly the decade" Clifton Fadiman. It is the basis for the 1940 John Ford directed film bearing the same name starring Henry Fonda. It is widely considered as one of the greatest American films of all time. In 1989 this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally historically or aesthetically significant." Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century. The Viking Press hardcover books
19321114023Brewer Warren and Putnam 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. NY Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932 1932. NY Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. His second book Goldstone & Payne A2a Morrow 14 this first edition is one of only 1650 copies actually bound from a print-run of 2500 sets of sheets only 650 copies were actually sold. According to Harry Thornton Moore in his first critical study of Steinbeck's works The Pastures of Heaven "is the most popular of Steinbeck's three early books. It points the way to most of his subsequent writing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket 2 mm shorter than the book. Housed in a custom-made collectors slipcase. Brewer, Warren and Putnam hardcover books
JD29396first edition. n.p. NY n.p. The Viking Press n.d. 1944 first edition wrappers. Softcover. <br/><br/> 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. hardcover books
