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193546446London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1935. First UK edition first printing of Steinbeck's third novel but the second to be published in England. Beautifully bound by George Bayntun in full blue morocco spine with raised bands titled and dated in gilt. All the edges gilt. With blue and gold color marbled endpapers. A beautiful copy with Compliments of George Bayntun slip lloosely aid in. See photos. . First Edition. Full-Leather. Fine. William Heinemann Ltd. Hardcover
19466455New York: Penguin 1946. First Paperback edition. Softcover. Near fine. Small octavo 180pp. A near fine copy in the publisher's printed wraps. Cheap paper is evenly age-toned and the spine is very gently sunned. A few shallow corner chips to the first several leaves. This copy comes from the personal collection of Penguin Books co-founder Kurt Enoch and is SIGNED by Steinbeck on the title page without inscription. Steinbeck signatures without clear provenance should be approached with caution. Though not the true first edition of this early Steinbeck title and priced accordingly this is a desirable signed copy with a pleasing literary connection. Penguin unknown
1962140941317New York: The Viking Press 1962. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. An advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Bound in original coarse off-white cloth stamped in black and brown. Fine with faint foxing to cloth in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning and light staining to spine light shelf wear and a light crease down the front panel. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a road trip around America in 1960 with his traveling companion a standard poodle named Charley. The Viking Press unknown
JD36677Pacific Grove John Steinbeck December 8 1948 first edition. This is a letter to Ed Ricketts Jr. on Steinbeck's familiar ruled yellow paper carrying his Pacific Grove stamped address a total of 13 lines Steinbeck is looking for the "circulating pump we used to use on the pans of animals" Steinbeck is looking to set up a small aquarium in his house and would like to use the pump rather than buying another as "they are quite expensive" he invites the famed marine biologist's son to visit and says "Not much changes here. I'm trying to get some work done and maybe I'm succeeding. I don't know yet.". Folded else very good. Pacific Grove, John Steinbeck, December 8, 1948, first edition. unknown
19392303010Viking Press 1939. first. hardcover. near fine/very good. First edition first published in April 1939 stated on copyright page with First Edition stated at bottom of front flap. Book near fine minor fading on spine and some faint spots on spine. Dust jacket very good some wear 2 inch tear at rear hinge bottom. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Viking Press unknown
123100New York The Viking Press 1939. . First edition first impression; 8vo 20 x 14 cm; very occasional spot or mark to margins otherwise near-fine internal condition; modern full blue morocco one-line gilt-panelled back by Bayntun Riviere gilt dentelles cockerel endpapers all edges gilt very mild age toning otherwise a handsome finely-bound first edition; vi 619pp 3pp.<br /> Set during the Great Depression the novel focuses on the Joads a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their home by drought economic hardship and changes in financial and agricultural industries. Due to their nearly hopeless situation and in part because they were trapped in the Dust Bowl the Joads set out for California. Along with thousands of other 'Okie' they sought jobs land dignity and a future. Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1940 for this novel.<br /> New York, The Viking Press, 1939. unknown
1939250613001New York: Viking 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. OVERALL CONDITION: NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD<br /> <br /> BOOK INFO<br /> <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 first edition jacket with the "first edition" slug on bottom of front flap and correct $2.75 price on top of front flap. <br /> <br /> CONDITION: NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD <br /> <br /> The book is in NEAR FINE vintage condition. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Coffee stain on top edge which has dripped to rear endpapers and a little foxing and waviness to first few pages else FINE. <br /> <br /> The exceptional qualities: <br /> 1. Front endpapers with no darkening very scarce and very little darkening of rear endpaper gutters. <br /> 2. No writing no stamps no ex libris marks no dog-eared pages. 3. Very few signs of handling. <br /> 4. Very clean colorful and unfaded cloth. <br /> 5. Clean and bright pages.<br /> <br /> The original unrestored first state dust jacket is in VERY GOOD condition. Clipped panels via publisher as are all copies. Sun-darkened spine per usual. Front panel creases. Rubbing to folds. Edge wear chipping small tears and creases. Three larger chips along front fold head of rear fold and head of spine. Viking hardcover
1935Embry 125484William Heinemann Limited London: 1935. First British edition. Owner's inked name a tiny bit of foxing to edges first and last few pages very minor wear near fine in very good dust jacket with some soiling to panels and toning to spine and light edgewear in mylar cover. Overall a very nice copy. William Heinemann Limited, London: 1935. First British edition. unknown books
1952140275New York: The Viking Press 1952. First edition first issue of Steinbeck's epic and moving story of a modern Cain and Abel. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptionally fresh example. "A novel planned on the grandest possible scale.One of those occasions when a writer has aimed high and then summoned every ounce of energy talent seriousness and passion of which he was capable.It is an entirely interesting and impressive book" The New York Herald Tribune. The Viking Press hardcover
1937140947643New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. Limited First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. #594 of limited 699 copies signed by John Steinbeck. 81 1 pp. Bound in publisher's beige cloth boards with intersectional gray rules and red pony center with spine lettered in red. Near Fine with fading to lettering at spine and trace toning to contents. In a Near Fine glassine jacket though likely not the original. In publisher's tan slipcase with correct limitation number penned on spine worn at the extremities and toned. A handsome limited edition of Steinbeck's novella published just before his best known work The Grapes of Wrath. Goldstone & Payne A9a. Covici Friede Publishers unknown
JD29453Bronxville privately printed 1952 first edition wrappers. Softcover. First separate printing of this chapter from Steinbeck's big rambling flawed masterpiece Steinbeck writes beautifully how there is only one story -- the struggle between good and evil one of 125 copies printed on the hand-press by Valenti Angelo bound in limp buff wrappers this is variant 2 with the title page containing a red and black rectangular design of leafy and bare branches between the title and "PRIVATELY PRINTED 1952" with the limitation notice on page 10 although the pages are unnumbered the variants are believed to be trial copies no priority has been determined Goldstone & Payne A32d not recorded by Morrow this was John DePol's copy with his spare bookplate DePol 1913-2004 was an artist and one of America's foremost printmakers and wood engravers his prints can be found in the permanent collections of many libraries and museums he contributed to publications by the Allen Press Red Ozier Press Stone House Press and others The Book Club of California recently produced a major work on him John DePol A Catalogue Raisonne of His Graphic Work 1935-1998. The usual age-toning else fine. Bronxville, privately printed, 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. paperback
1946020854Prague: Sfinx 1946. Second Czech Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Dustwrapper designed by Jaroslav váb. Uncommon edition of this winner of the Pulitzer Prize. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Steinbeck on the last page of text located at the foot of the translator's notes in which the translator Vladimír Procházka includes an excerpt from a positive review of the translation: ".in reading this translation we forget that it's a translation. How many translations can we say that about" The inscription is under Procházka's printed name and is to him: "For Vladimir Prochazka/Thank you/John Steinbeck." Procházka a lawyer and communist was forced to withdraw from his political activities during the Nazi occupation and translated THE GRAPES OF WRATH along with works by James Joyce and Bernard Shaw. In 1946 he was elected to parliament as a communist and helped draft the new Czechoslovak constitution. Steinbeck most likely inscribed this on one of his two trips to communist Czechoslovakia or possibly in the U. S. when Procházka was serving as the Czechoslovak ambassador to the United States. <br/><br/> Sfinx hardcover
1941181868New York: The Viking Press 1941. Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans First edition. Steinbeck and Ricketts's account of their six-week marine collecting expedition of 1940 contains "more of the whole man John Steinbeck than any of his novels" Lewis Gannett. Steinbeck was greatly influenced by the marine biologist Ricketts 1897-1948 whose "acceptance of people as they were and of life as he found it was remarkable articulated by what he called nonteleological or 'is' thinking. Steinbeck adapted the term and the stance. His fiction examines 'what is'" ANB. The narrative section by Steinbeck includes their "philosophical musings as well as keen observations on Mexican peasantry hermit crabs and 'dryball' scientists" ANB. It is appended by Ricketts's scientific catalogue which was dropped when Steinbeck's narrative was republished as The Log From the Sea of Cortez 1951. Octavo. With 40 photographic plates of specimens of which 8 in colour. Original green cloth spine and front cover lettered in silver map endpapers top edge orange. With dust jacket. Negligible rubbing to cloth; jacket bright soiling to upper left section of rear panel rubbing to edges unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. Goldstone & Payne A15b. hardcover
1938174087New York: Viking Press 1938. First edition of the author's collection of 12 stories set in Salinas Valley California his birthplace. It features the first appearance of "Flight" as well as others which had previously appeared in magazines including "The Red Pony" "Chrysanthemum" and "The Murder". Octavo. Title page printed in red and black. Original quarter buckram spine lettered in brown orange cloth sides top edge orange. With dust jacket. Bookplate of Altess and Sanford Berenson to front pastedown. Small mark to fore edge; jacket bright and unclipped spine slightly toned extremities lightly rubbed with a couple of short closed tears: a near-fine copy in near-fine dust jacket. Goldstone and Payne A11a. hardcover
193532603New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1935. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1935. First Edition one of 500 copies in printed wrappers. Octavo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers illustrated by Ruth Gannett French flaps retaining original price $2.50; viii9-317pp.; illus. throughout. Rubbing to edges with a few minor nicks and creases; spine sunned but still retaining some color; 2" split at base of upper spine edge. Binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good well-preserved copy of an important Steinbeck title following Danny and his knights of the round table as they drink sing and brawl their way through the worst years of the Depression around Monterrey California. Adorned with atmospheric illustrations by Ruth Gannett the genius author-illustrator of the children's series My Father's Dragon 1948. <br /> <br /> Goldstone & Payne A4a. Covici Friede Publishers unknown
19627351New York: The Viking Press 1962. First Edition First Printing. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing - with "Published in 1962 by The Viking Press Inc." stated on the copyright page. Signed by the author John Steinbeck on a card which has been professionally affixed to the half-title page. Provenance of the signature: Purchased directly by us from PBA Galleries who stated that the card was from the estate of Steinbeck's personal assistant Nancy Pearson. Measuring approximately 9" x 6" with 246 numbered pages. <br /> <br /> The book is in near fine condition. Tiny stain visible at the bottom of the front board. Interior pages are clean and very well preserved. The original dust jacket is also in near fine condition. Minor surface wear and staining to the panels. Original $4.95 price is present on the front flap.<br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. <br /> <br /> Inventory #P12-9. The Viking Press unknown
1938005755The Viking Press. DJ in archival cover corner chips small tear edge ware. $2.50 price on flap. Stated first published in September 1938. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1938. The Viking Press hardcover
19521407515Viking Press 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. FIRST EDITION of John Steinbeck's "East of Eden." Published in New York by The Viking Press in 1952. First Edition indicated by matching publication dates on the title and copyright pages and the statement "First published by The Viking Press in September 1952" on copyright page. Published one decade before Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature. Book near fine lower front corner very slightly bent upper foredge has barely visible darkening. Dust jacket very good-almost near fine minor wear along edges minor tanning at top of edges. Very nice copy. Flap price $4.50. Comes in custom-made slipcase. Viking Press hardcover books
318192Vp Vd. Various formats as below. Very Good old folds etc. Various formats as below. Autograph postcard addressed in his hand on the verso to Mrs. John Steinbeck jokingly writing to her as if she was Marie Antoinette: "I've been waiting and waiting and inly now I hear they stopped your coach. Better luck next time. Don't worry your pretty head about it. It will all be forgotten tomorrow."<br/><br/>Typed poem on his personal Sag Harbor private mailing card "Since love's a tender balanced thing / A jewel of rubies spit and string / Let loving be a sporting bliss / By loving standing up in this"<br/><br/>Autograph note signed "guess who" "This is the high point of our civilzation in 1. beauty 2. utility 3. morality 4. responsibility."<br/><br/>Autograph note unsigned "Because the yellow rose of Texas may seem a little jaundiced to your eye we welcome you home with the White Rose of York . New York that is."<br/><br/>Autograph poem signed with initials beginning "No pig's wahoo / or baboon's blue ." and asking that she be his valentine.<br/><br/>Autograph note unsigned in pencil addressed to Bugsy Seagull but Elaine "This is your belated birthday present from the man who has everything. unknown books
19391508124Viking 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine first edition in a very good first edition dust jacket with small tape repair inside of jacket not visible on outside of jacket. First Edition slug on front flap. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Viking hardcover books
1941403859New York: The Viking Press 1941. 8vo. 185 pp. 60 black-and-white photographs by John Swope. Original decorated cloth. A very good copy without the jacket. FIRST EDITION. A wonderful association copy warmly inscribed by 8 of the 10 members of the first crew of the B-24 Liberator Bomber "Billie B" to the woman for whom the plane was named by its first pilot 1st Lt. Joseph Robins Littlepage. Nearly full-page inscriptions by the pilot navigator and co-pilot in blue ink on the front pastedown and the front free endpaper as well as by the crew engineer assistant crew engineer radioman assistant radioman and one of the gunners in blue ink on the rear free endpapers. The pilot's inscription reads "To Billie - / From the skipper to her namesake. There isn't much I could tell you other than we are just another combat crew tryin to bring our standards up to the finest ship ever built 42-40076 the Billie "B" / JR Littlepage / First Pilot" The navigator's inscription reads "May 16 1943 / Hi Billie - / Tho I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you I feel that I already know you. However I still have hopes of meeting you in the near future. In the meantime I'll keep doing my darndest to navigate your name sake safely to her targets and back again. / Best wishes from the navigator / James H. Scholl / Gonzales Texas" The co-pilot's inscription reads "Hello Billie - / We are all waiting for the day that we can introduce you to the "Billie B." However from the way Joe talks it won't be a fair comparison. We will all be seeing you. / Until then - George L. Goddard / co-pilot". The inscription by S/Sgt. Harold A. Denison Asst Crew Engineer is a charming 4-line attempt at poetry. The other inscriptions are by S/Sgt. Thomas R. Brady Jr. Gunner T/Sgt. Cyril B. Cluff Jr. Radioman/Gunner and S/Sgt. Clifford H. Muhlhausen Asst. Radioman. Below that of S/Sgt. Harold Hutton Justus Crew Engineer is this moving addition by the pilot "Note - / I'd rather fly without one of the engines than leave him on the ground loyal to the crew faithful at his work and loves the ship as I do -- the Air Corps has none as good - the country none better - / J.R.L." In addition the pilot has annotated 49 of the 60 B&W photos the accompany Steinbeck's journalistic account of the training of a typical flight crew. The notes are often amusing: the captions of pictures of a B-17 and a B-24 on facing pages were modified to read "Boeing B-17E commonly known as the Flying Fortress Junk Heaps" and "Consolidated B-24 commonly known as the Liberator Billie 'B'"; in many cases they are merely informative aimed at telling her name sake about crew activities and features of the plane; and sometimes touching beneath the chapter opening photograph of a pilot 1st Lt. Littlepage has added "And don't think he's not scared". The only members not represented are 1st Lt. Leonard Barton Conway Bombadier and S/Sgt. William Posledni Gunner. The newly commissioned B-24 Liberator Bomber "Billie B" 42-40076 was assigned to the 13th Air Force 307th Bombardment Group "The Long Rangers" 370th Bomber Squadron and was first stationed at Carney Field Guadalcanal on May 29 1943 with this crew flying missions until July 3 when the plane was grounded for repairs. On July 6 the 10-man crew was assigned to another plane for a bombing mission to Bougainville Island and the plane and crew was lost at sea on its way back from the Philippines. The "Billie B" was assigned to a replacement crew and went on to serve valiantly in the South Pacific until the end of August 1944. . <br/><br/> The Viking Press hardcover books
1952147707New York: The Viking Press 1952. First edition first issue of Steinbeck's epic and moving story of a modern Cain and Abel. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. An exceptional example. "A novel planned on the grandest possible scale.One of those occasions when a writer has aimed high and then summoned every ounce of energy talent seriousness and passion of which he was capable.It is an entirely interesting and impressive book" The New York Herald Tribune. The Viking Press hardcover
1952151256New York: The Viking Press 1952. First edition first printing of Steinbeck's epic and moving story of a modern Cain and Abel. Octavo original lime green cloth. First issue with the word "bite" present on page 281 line 38. Fine in a near fine first issue price-clipped dust jacket with the portrait of Steinbeck. An exceptional example. "A novel planned on the grandest possible scale.One of those occasions when a writer has aimed high and then summoned every ounce of energy talent seriousness and passion of which he was capable.It is an entirely interesting and impressive book" The New York Herald Tribune. The Viking Press hardcover
195218348New York: The Viking Press 1952. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 8vo. Apple green cloth blocked in black and deep red. "First published" statement on the copyright page and date on the title page. Cloth sunned along the edges and spine but a very good copy. The first state dustwrapper has the price of $4.50 on the flap and Steinbeck's portrait on the rear panel. The top inch of the spine and the bottom edge have been professionally restored giving a near fine appearance with only light age toning especially to the spine. The rear free endpaper and pastedown have penciled notes made by a former owner apparently references to important passages in the book. .<br /> <p>. The Viking Press hardcover
193769031New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. Full Description:<br> <br> STEINBECK John. The Red Pony. New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937.<br> <br> First edition one of 699 copies signed by John Steinbeck this being number 629. Large octavo 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 251 x 175 mm. 81 1 limitation page pp. Printed on handmade paper by the Pynson Printers New York under the supervision of Elmer Adler. Vignette of a pony in orange and gray on title-page.<br> <br> Original full beige cloth stamped in gray and orange. Vignette of a pony in ornage repeated from the title-page on front cover with date in orange roman numerals below. Spine lettered in yellow. Bottom and fore-edge uncut. With previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Cloth lightly foxed as usual. Still a near fine copy. Housed in publisher's original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label. Label with matching limitation number 629 om spine. Some minor splitting to bottom of case. Still about fine.<br> <br> This story containing three episodes I. The Gift II. The Great Mountains III. The Promise in the life of farm boy Jody Tiflin of the Salinas valley. The story centers on how Jody matures after the loss of his beloved red pony.<br> <br> Goldstone & Payne A9a.<br> <br> HBS 69031.<br> <br> $3000. Covici Friede Publishers unknown
