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1939162844New York: The Viking Press 1939. A stunning copy with the author's mounted signature First edition first printing with the author's signature on a card mounted to the half-title of his masterpiece one of the greatest American novels of the century and widely regarded as the supreme literary achievement of the Depression era. The film adaptation by Darryl F. Zanuck produced the following year is likewise readily ranked as among the greatest 20th-century American films. The fine jacket design is by the children's writer and illustrator Elmer Hader 1889-1973 joint recipient alongside his wife Berta of the 1948 Caldecott medal. Steinbeck was so taken with the illustrations in their book Billy Butter 1936 that he specially requested Elmer design the jacket for The Grapes of Wrath. Elmer later designed the jackets of East of Eden 1952 and The Winter of Our Discontent 1961. Octavo. Original buff cloth spine lettered in brown pictorial design in brown wrapped around spine and covers endpapers printed with sheet music for "Battle Hymn of the Republic" top edge yellow. With dust jacket. Housed in green quarter morocco folding box by the Chelsea Bindery. A fine copy in the exceptionally smart and bright jacket couple of trivial nicks to upper edges near-fine. Goldstone & Payne A12a. hardcover
19291114022Robert M. McBride 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. NY Robert M. McBride 1929 1929. NY Robert M. McBride 1929 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book first issue with top edge stained and with the final black leaf present with the rare colorful pirate dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine unrestored one of only 1537 copies published when Steinbeck was 27 years old and just two weeks before the 1929 stock market crash a historical novel about the pirate Henry Morgan rendered in a purple prose manner quite unlike his realistic descriptive storytelling that followed Goldstone & Payne A1a Morrow 1. Very good book in a jacket with the usual spine color fade with chipping to top and bottom of spine unrestored jacket with internal tape reinforcement that could probably be safely removed by an expert. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Robert M. McBride hardcover books
19291114022Robert M. McBride 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. NY Robert M. McBride 1929 1929. NY Robert M. McBride 1929 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book first issue with top edge stained and with the final black leaf present with the rare colorful pirate dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine unrestored one of only 1537 copies published when Steinbeck was 27 years old and just two weeks before the 1929 stock market crash a historical novel about the pirate Henry Morgan rendered in a purple prose manner quite unlike his realistic descriptive storytelling that followed Goldstone & Payne A1a Morrow 1. Very good book in a jacket with the usual spine color fade with chipping to top and bottom of spine unrestored jacket with internal tape reinforcement that could probably be safely removed by an expert. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Robert M. McBride hardcover
19392202112Viking Press 1939. first. hardcover. near fine/near fine. First edition with First Published in April 1939 stated on copyright page and first edition stated at bottom of dj. Book near fine. Dust jacket near fine. Housed in custom-made slip case. Viking Press unknown
192570003ca. 1925-1930. in the original frame. Very fine original condition. This portrait was presented by Blaine to Steinbeck and remained in his possession for the rest of his life. From the estate of Steinbeck's sister Elizabeth Ainsworth. Mahlon Blaine designed the dust jackets and endpapers of both "Cup of Gold" and "To a God Unknown." Almost certainly one of the earliest portraits of John Steinbeck. unknown
1936140947502New York: Covici-Friede 1936. First Edition Limited Issue. Fine. Limited first edition Printer's Copy B to match the numbered edition of 99 copies. Signed by John Steinbeck on the limitation page at rear. 349 pp. Bound in publisher's beige and black cloth with gilt lettering to spine red topstain. Fine with very slight lean to spine dust-soiling to upper edge of textblock. In a somewhat rubbed original black paper-covered slipcase paper title label to spine. Housed in a custom oatmeal cloth clamshell case with a gilt-lettered black morocco title label to spine. Goldstone-Payne A5.a. <p>A very rare copy of an edition scarce to begin with. Just 99 numbered and signed copies of Steinbeck's famous strike novel were published simultaneously with the first trade edition in 1936; this copy is signed but not numbered and an ink inscription below the signature states: "Printer's Copy B." The number of lettered copies is unknown. Covici-Friede unknown
1935149596New York: Covici-Friede Publishers 1935. First edition of Steinbeck's first commercially successful book. Octavo original cloth illustrated. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For George Good with regards John Steinbeck." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Laid in is an old pamphlet of Monterey the capital of old California. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. One of the most difficult books in the Steinbeck canon to locate signed. Set in Monterey California Tortilla Flat tells the story of a small band of paisanos who resist the the corrupting tides of honest toil in favor of a life of adventure. It is the story of Danny who home from the war inherits two houses which at once become a haven for his friends and lovers not unlike the chivalric order of King Arthur and his court the Knights of the Round Table. It deals with the band's adventuring multiple loves and wonderful brawls and Gargantuan wine-drinking. "An utterly unprecedented sort of book and hard to analyze in its unique charm" Virginia Kirkus. Covici-Friede Publishers hardcover
1929140946499New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing first issue. 269 pp. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with titles stamped in black blue topstain. Near Fine with light fading to spine modest soiling to cloth and minor wear at extremities. Moderating foxing to all edges with slight offsetting at endsheets. Minor toning and light foxing to contents. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with fading to spine short split at foot of front spine joint with light associated creasing to the bottom of the front panel. Foxing to verso. Steinbeck's scarce first novel of 17th-century historical fiction. Uncommon in the original dust jacket. Goldstone A1. Robert M. McBride & Company unknown
1939367906New York: The Viking Press 1939. First edition. 619 pp. 8vo. Tan cloth decoratively stamped in brown on cover and spine; unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear to upper rear; spine lightly sunned. First edition. 619 pp. 8vo. The Classic Novel of the Great Depression. The tale of the Joad family as they travel across the country from Oklahoma to California in the midst of the Great Depression is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. It is Steinbeck's masterpiece. The Grapes of Wrath won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer and was central in the awarding of Steinbeck the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. The Viking Press unknown
JD30875first edition. NY Robert M. McBride 1929 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. <br/><br/> Author's First Book first issue with top edge stained and with the final black leaf present with the rare colorful pirate dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine one of only 1537 copies published when Steinbeck was 27 years old and just two weeks before the 1929 stock market crash a historical novel about the pirate Henry Morgan rendered in a purple prose manner quite unlike his realistic descriptive storytelling that followed Goldstone & Payne A1a Morrow 1. Very good book in a jacket with the usual spine color fade with chipping to top and bottom of spine jacket with internal tape reinforcement. hardcover books
192970009New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1929. First edition of Steinbeck's first book one <span class="match">of</span> about 1500 copies. The publisher printed 2476 copies 939 <span class="match">of</span> which were remaindered as unbound sheets. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Comes with the original publisher's glassine. Housed in a custom cloth case. Rare especially in this condition. Written when Steinbeck was 27 years old and published in an edition of 2476 copies just two weeks before the stock market crashed Cup of Gold is a historical romance about the life of the pirate Henry Morgan" Valentine 1. From the mid-1650s through the 1660s 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." Steinbeck's first novel and sole work of historical fiction. Robert M. McBride & Company hardcover books
1939108063Viking Press 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket with First Edition stated on the lower corner of the front flap of the dust jacket. Housed in a custom made collector's clamshell case with tooled quarter leather and gilt lettering and decoration. Viking Press hardcover books
JD29949first edition. NY Viking 1939 first edition first printing dust jacket. Hardcover. <br/><br/> No book is more identified with John Steinbeck than this masterpiece which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and which was the source for the film version directed by John Ford that starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad and which won Jane Darwell an Academy Award for her portrayal of Ma Joad the book was also the source for the Tony Award-winning Broadway play one of the true high spots of 20th Century literature jacket designed by Elmer Hader this is an incredibly scarce Review Copy with review slip from Viking this is the only review copy seen by this bookseller in more than 50 years of being involved in all things Steinbeck see Goldstone & Payne A12a see Morrow 107. Fine in a jacket with a couple of small tape ghosts from where the review slip was previously affixed jacket is otherwise clean bright and fine. hardcover 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
192970009New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1929. First edition of Steinbeck's first book one of about 1500 copies. The publisher printed 2476 copies 939 of which were remaindered as unbound sheets. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Comes with the original publisher's glassine. Housed in a custom cloth case. Rare especially in this condition. “Written when Steinbeck was 27 years old and published in an edition of 2476 copies just two weeks before the stock market crashed Cup of Gold is a historical romance about the life of the pirate Henry Morgan†Valentine 1. From the mid-1650s through the 1660s 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." Steinbeck’s first novel and sole work of historical fiction. Robert M. McBride & Company hardcover
1939108063Viking Press 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket with First Edition stated on the lower corner of the front flap of the dust jacket. Housed in a custom made collector's clamshell case with tooled quarter leather and gilt lettering and decoration. Viking Press hardcover
1939266New York: Viking Press 1939. first edition first printing. original oatmeal cloth. Fine/Near Fine. <p>A gorgeous copy of the Pulitzer Prize winner - one of the greatest American novels ever written.<br /> <br /> Condition: FINE/NF<br /> <br /> BOOK INFO<br /> Published in 1939 by Viking Press in New York. First edition first printing as indicated by “First Published in April 1939†statement on copyright page with no other printings listed and Battle Hymn of the Republic endpapers. In original oatmeal cloth covered boards and a first state dust jacket with the “first edition†slug on bottom of front flap and correct $2.75 price on top of front flap. </p> <br /> <p>CONDITION REPORT<br /> The book is in FINE vintage condition. Square spine firm hinges and joints sharp corners. Clean bright pages. No writing or ex libris marks. No bent page corners. Minimal rubbing or signs of handling beyond a few negligible spots and a little darkening to the foot of cloth turn-ins. Still beautifully FINE.<br /> <br /> The unrestored dust jacket is NEAR FINE. Colorful and vivid. No tears. Some spots of rubbing to spine and foot of front panel and some light edge wear else FINE. All flap corners clipped as with all copies by the publisher.</p> <br /> <p>EXCEPTIONAL QUALITIES<br /> 1. Unrubbed spine tips. <br /> 2. Remarkably without the usual darkening of the endpaper gutters quite scarce.<br /> 3. Very clean colorful and unfaded cloth and without the foxing which often afflicts this title.<br /> 4. Without the nearly universal darkening of the jacket spine.</p> <br /> <p>All in all a superior collectible copy of Steinbeck's masterpiece.</p> . Viking Press unknown
1939140947921New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. vi 619 pp. Bound in publisher's oatmeal speckled cloth with brown pictorial stamping yellow topstain "Battle Hymn of the Republic" endpapers. Near Fine with darkening to cloth at joints light soiling to lower board and textblock edges and faint offsetting to endpapers. In a Near Fine correct first printing dust jacket with publisher's price $2.75 and "First Edition" statement present on front flap. Trivial toning small puncture to front flap fold. A beautiful copy in the original pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Elmer Hader. Goldstone & Payne A12.<br /> <br /> <p>The classic American novel of the Great Depression and Okie migration which won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It inspired the acclaimed 1940 John Ford film. The Viking Press unknown
1939187292New York: The Viking Press 1939. The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads First edition of the author's masterpiece widely regarded as the supreme literary achievement of the Depression era. The film adaptation by Darryl F. Zanuck produced the following year is similarly one of the greatest 20th-century American films. "Lauded by critics nationwide for its scope and intensity the book attracted an equally vociferous minority opinion" with some debating Steinback's use of supposedly crass language and his unwavering sympathy for the disenfranchised ANB. It was consequently banned in several counties until well into the Second World War. The jacket design is by the children's writer and illustrator Elmer Hader 1889-1973 the joint recipient alongside his wife Berta of the 1948 Caldecott medal. Steinbeck was so taken with the illustrations in their book Billy Butter 1936 that he specially requested Elmer design the jacket for The Grapes of Wrath. Elmer later designed the jackets of East of Eden 1952 and The Winter of Our Discontent 1961. Octavo. Original buff cloth spine lettered in brown pictorial design in brown wrapped around spine and covers endpapers printed with sheet music for "Battle Hymn of the Republic" top edge yellow. With dust jacket. House in a custom blue quarter morocco solander box. Spine faintly toned mark to lower edge of book block; jacket unclipped spine and peripheries toned horizontal crease to spine just starting to crack silverfishing to fold of front flap a few nicks: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. Goldstone & Payne A12a. hardcover
JD35566n.p. J. Wilson McKenney 1959 first edition. A broadside that excerpts an article on teachers originally written for and published by the "CTA Journal" in November 1955 this is one of the great Steinbeck rarities so rare that it is virtually unknown it is one of only 12 copies hand-set and printed by McKenney so stated McKenney was the printer for the "CTA California Teachers Association Journal" as well as the magazine's editor he had also been a book publisher via his Wilmac Press he was able to gain approval of his printing this broadside only after agreement between himself Steinbeck and his agents that the print-run would be small enough so as to be not commercially viable the broadside measures c.10X14 inches the text is about the three teachers who were most important in Steinbeck's life he specifically mentions Ed Ricketts by number this would be the second rarest Steinbeck collectible it is so rare that no Steinbeck collection public or private is known to have a copy not recorded by Goldstone & Payne Morrow or Holmes THIS WAS THE PRINTER'S OWN PERSONAL COPY the verso is inscribed by his widow thusly "My husband was J. Wilson McKenney. One of his greatest accomplishments was this Steinbeck broadside. This was his own personal copy which I now inscribe to Jim Dourgarian and his daughter Tracy. Mariam McKenney. 6/6/89" now housed in a wood and glass frame this is one of those items that can actually be called rare. Aged but framed to visually eliminate that age presents as fine. n.p., J. Wilson McKenney, 1959, first edition. unknown
JD30875NY Robert M. McBride 1929 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book first issue with top edge stained and with the final black leaf present with the rare colorful pirate dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine one of only 1537 copies published when Steinbeck was 27 years old and just two weeks before the 1929 stock market crash a historical novel about the pirate Henry Morgan rendered in a purple prose manner quite unlike his realistic descriptive storytelling that followed Goldstone & Payne A1a Morrow 1. Very good book in a jacket with the usual spine color fade with chipping to top and bottom of spine jacket with internal tape reinforcement. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1929, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover
JD35529NY Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. With a first issue dust jacket 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 a paltry 650 copies were actually sold this was his first book with what could be called the Steinbeck "sound" the book is comprised of inter-related stories set in a valley that came to represent Steinbeck Country in these stories something is not quite right with the inhabitants of this otherwise peaceful valley 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" this example of a short story cycle may well be Steinbeck's finest work scarce when found with the correct dust jacket those jackets that are noted as 2 mm shorter than the book are second issue jackets. Very good copy in a restored jacket. NY, Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover
JD6519first edition. NY Pynson Printers December 1936 first edition. <br/><br/> Issued without dust jacket this hardcover with marbled boards and orange cloth spine is the first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story from Steinbeck's second book The Pastures of Heaven Goldstone & Payne A2f see Morrow 16 issued here with a new title and an epilogue written especially for this book by Steinbeck it is one of only 370 copies for presentation by a number of subscribers to be used as a Christmas gift it includes pen and ink drawings by Donald McKay this particular copy is even more special in that it is one of just six copies purchased by Steinbeck himself his name is printed in the colophon as having requested the book which he then presented and inscribed to his older sister Elizabeth and her husband Gene "Beth and Gene/with love/John Steinbeck" this is probably the last of the close family copies to come to the marketplace the rest are already in institutions. Minor bump to spine bottom else fine. hardcover books
JD30869first edition. NY McIntosh & Otis n.d. 1936 first edition. <br/><br/> This is the typescript as submitted by Steinbeck's agents very likely to produce the signed/limited edition of this short story about a pig and its alleged virginity it consists of the title page and 13 typed leaves of the story with corrections in Steinbeck's hand followed by one blank leaf the typed notation about it being submitted by McIntosh & Otis with that agency's New York address has been X-ed out in ink the eventually-produced book was one of 199 copies signed by Steinbeck and used as a Christmas greeting for friends of Steinbeck and Covici Friede which was then his publisher the story was later reprised in Steinbeck's short story collection The Long Valley his first book published by Viking rare unique now housed in a custom chemise and box with red leather spine with five raised bands and gilt notations. Pencil name on title page expected age and wear. hardcover books
JD29405first edition. NY Viking 1961 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. <br/><br/> One of 500 copies specially bound by the publisher for friends of the author and the publisher includes the outer clear plastic dust jacket with just the words "Limited Edition" printed in red over the "regular" dust jacket which is illustrated by Elmer Hader the same artist who illustrated Steinbeck'sThe Long Valley and The Grapes of Wrath this is a major Author Presentation Copy of the first order Inscribed to his own publisher Harold Kleinert Guinzburg co-founder of The Viking Press "For H. K. G./with ks/from/John Steinbeck" this tale of morality was his last novel and is generally credited as having won him the Nobel Prize for Literature Goldstone & Payne A38a Morrow 251. Fine . hardcover books
