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1939266172New York: Viking 1939. hardcover. fine. 619pp. Thick 8vorebound in full green morocco; gilt lettered spine with raised bands marbled end papers all edges gilt. New York: Viking Press 1939. First edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Viking unknown books
1939227288New York: Viking 1939. First. hardcover. near fine. 619pp. Thick 8vo handsomely rebound in full camel morocco; gilt-ruled and lettered spine with raised bands; marbled endpapers t.e.g. New York: Viking Press 1939. First edition.<br/><br/> Paper at bottom margin of page 329 is damaged otherwise a fine copy.<br/><br/> Viking unknown books
1939121326New York: The Viking Press 1939. First edition with "First Published in April 1939" on copyright page of the author's classic work. Octavo bound in full morocco gilt titles to the spine raised bands gilt ruled to the front and rear panels marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. "The Grapes of Wrath is the kind of art that's 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
1935180611006New York: Covici Friede 1935. First Edition Fourth Issue. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition fourth issue. Publisher's tan cloth binding stamped in maroon with title page tipped in. Very Good with toning to pages and to cloth at spine and edges. In a Very Good dust jacket with price intact toning to spine and edges several small stains to spine light edge wear with minor chipping at corners and spine ends. Bound from the remaining portion of the approximate 1850 sheets sold by the original publisher Brewer Warren & Putnam to Robert O. Ballou which were again sold here to Covici-Friede and likely issued in 1935. Goldstone and Payne A2e. Covici Friede hardcover books
193513797JNew York: Covici-Friede 1935. First Edition First Issue. Bound in a fine full blue morocco leather binding with gilt-stamping and matching blue marbled endpapers. A very handsome binding. Covici-Friede hardcover 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
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
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
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
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
005136Book. Fine. No Binding. Autographed Letter Signed. 8x10. Awesome 5x6 Autographed Letter Signed in a 8x10 lucite frame. "Dear Mr. Stanton: Thank you very much for your kind letter and for your kind thoughts Very sincerely John Steinbeck." Fully Guarantee.I have collected Steinbeck for 30 years. unknown books
1937009257Covici-Friede 1937. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near Fine Copy.Dark Gutters As Usual.Fine Price clipped Jacket.First Edition.Beautiful Copy of The Scarce Play. Covici-Friede Hardcover books
