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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
1937015861Covici Friede 1937. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket. First Edition The Very Scarce Play Without Wear. $2.00 On Flap. So Rare In This Condition. Gorgeous Fresh Copy. Covici Friede Hardcover
1933015860Covici Friede 1933. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket.$2.50 Price On Flap. Second Issue. Very Rare Especially In This Condition. Beautiful Fresh Copy. Covici Friede Hardcover
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
19675578<p>This handmade collection includes the following works:<br />- Twenty-six verses by <strong>Emily Dickinson</strong> from 'Inostrannaia literatura' #12 1976.<br />- 'The Russian Journal' by <strong>John Steinbeck</strong> from 'Znamia' #1-2 1990.<br />- 'The Web of Earth' and 'Death the Proud Brother' by <strong>Thomas Wolfe</strong> from 'Inostrannaia literatura' #7 1971; Libman #1670 – the <strong>first </strong>Russian translations.<br />- 'The Cut-Glass Bowl' and 'Babylon Revisited' by <strong>F. Scott Fitzgerald </strong>from 'Inostrannaia literatura' #7 1976.<br />- 'Geometry of Love' by <strong>John Cheever</strong> from 'Znamia' #8 1967; Libman #7384.<br />- 'Seize the Day' by <strong>Saul Bellow</strong> from 'Novyi Mir' #4 1990.<br />- 'In the French Style' from 'Inostrannaia literatura' #5 1969; Libman #7471 and 'The Inhabitants of Venus' from 'Inostrannaia literatura' #2 1967; Libman #7469 by <strong>Irwin Shaw</strong> – the <strong>first </strong>Russian translations.<br />- 'Knight's Gambit' from 'Zvezda' #9 1990 'The Old People' and 'The Sound and the Fury' from 'Inostrannaia literatura' #1-2 1973; Libman #6360 by <strong>William Faulkner</strong>; the <strong>first </strong>Russian translation of 'The Sound and the Fury'.<br />- 'Of the Farm' from 'Inostrannaia literatura' #4 1967; Libman #1079 'The Doctor's Wife' and 'Should Wizard Hit Mommy' from 'Znamia' #5 1967; Libman #1076 and #1070 by <strong>John Updike</strong>.<br />- 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' by <strong>Katherine Anne Porter</strong> from 'Inostrannaia literatura' #7 1976.<br />- 'The Thanksgiving Visitor' by <strong>Truman Capote </strong>from 'Inostrannaia literatura' #7 1976.<br />- 'John Napper Sailing Through the Universe' by <strong>John Gardner</strong> from 'Inostrannaia literatura' #7 1976.<br />- 'Apt Pupil' by <strong>Stephen King</strong> from 'Zvezda' # 8 1990 etc.</p> hardcover
1936014405New York: Covici Friede 1936. 1st Edition second issue. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition second issue in maroon cloth with the scarce earliest dust jacket for this edition lacking any mention of "Of Mice and Men" and with the publisher's misspelled name blacked out on spine with correct spelling appearing above it and $2.50 original price on the front flap. In the Goldstone bibliography this edition was assumed to consist of unsold remainder sheets of the 1929 first edition likely because the McBride bell logo appears on the final page. Therefore this scarce edition is usually referred to as the "first edition second issue." However it seems more likely that Covici simply reproduced the McBride logo as an oversight before correcting their error on all subsequent editions. Either way whether a 'first second issue" or simple the second edition a scarce and desirable book. Very slight fading to maroon cloth former own name in pencil on the endpaper else a near fine book in jacket with only minor wear. <br/> <br/> Covici Friede hardcover
19393545New York: Viking Press 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good DJ. First Edition. Hardcover. "First Edition" at lower tab of front flap. Noted flaws in the DJ notwithstanding a very presentable copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning classic. 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. Viking Press hardcover
193656139New York: Pynson Printers 1936. Hardcover. Fine. First Separate Edition originally published in The Pastures of Heaven 1932. An unusually fine fresh copy with the corners square and virtually unrubbed. Goldstone notes that the paper supply allowed only 370 copies to be printed. Published for subscribers to use as Christmas gifts the colophon was customized with the subscriber's name following "made by the Pynson Printers of New York at the request of blank for presentation to blank." Fifty copies were so designated for Elmer Adler 100 for Frederick B. Adams Jr. 150 for Ben Abramson 50 for Edwin J. Beinecke and 20 for antiquarian bookseller Howard Mott although evidently fewer were issued with his name; only one is known. Unknown to Goldstone there were six copies for Steinbeck as well. This copy has the subscriber's name The Colophon handwritten in for presentation to the noted printer Carl P. Rollins. Additionally this copy is Signed by the subscribers Adams and Adler as well as by bookman John T. Winterich. All three were editors of The Colophon a magazine for book collectors. Rollins was the first "University Printer" at Yale. Goldstone A2f. Pynson Printers hardcover
1954377801Salerno Italy: Ente Provinciale per il Turismo 1954. First edition first issue. 30 pp. Yellow printed paper wrappers some wear to wrappers. Interior clean in unrecorded dust jacket with woodcut of "Posetano" on front panel and "Auguri / Dorothy and Truman" printed on the inner flap some light wear along top edge of jacket otherwise its in near fine condition. First edition first issue. 30 pp. This copy specifically states "1954" on the inside front cover and would therefore precede the Italian edition published in 1955 as well as Goldstone & Payne's first English language edition. Variants have been noted see Bradford Morrow's Steinbeck catalogue which bear the date 1954 - whether this represents a different edition or later issue is unclear. Steinbeck's article had appeared in Harper's Bazaar for May 1953 and the Italian translation preceded the English version.<br /> <br /> This dust jacket is unrecorded. Goldstone & Payne A34b; Morrow 236 Ente Provinciale per il Turismo unknown
193922974New York:: The Viking Press 1939. First edition. publisher's illustrated rough cloth in dust jacket. Some very minor hand-soiling to the cloth; jacket sunned and rubbed with some creasing and tiny chips at extremities. 8vo. The Viking Press, hardcover
193871806New York:: The Viking Press 1938. First edition. original cloth in dust jacket. Usual faint browning to inner hinges caused by binder's adhesive used by Viking. The unclipped and unchipped dust jacket has the slightest of rubbing to the top of the backstrip and one tiny closed tear to the bottom of the front panel. The jacket is otherwise brilliant. . 8vo. The Viking Press, hardcover
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
1947005765Viking Press. Bright DJ in archival cover corner chips edge wear clipped with $2.00 price listed. Stated Published by the Viking Press in February 1947. Front hinge starting. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1947. Viking Press hardcover
1937000006<p>New York~Covici Friede Publishers1937. Very Good/none. Hardcover. First Edition second state. April 1937. With the word loosely on page 9. pps 186. Solid collectible copy. VG/none. Binding tight. Spine straight corners sharp. Pages are clean. Appears unopened unread. .</p><p><br /></p> Covici Friede hardcover
194118886New York: The Viking Press 1941. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. First edition first printing of Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts an attractive copy. Octavo 6 vii-x 598pp. Green cloth title stamped in silver on spine and front panel. The first printing with "First Published in December 1941." Top edge dyed pink. Illustrated endpapers with maps of Baja California. Complete with 40 photographic plates 8 in color. In the publisher's first state dust jacket $5.00 on front flap short closed tear along bottom edge of front panel bright illustrations a near fine example. Goldstone & Payne A15b. The Viking Press unknown
1958156<p>THE LOG From The SEA OF CORTEZ</p><p>by JOHN STEINBECK</p><p>Published by Heinemann in London 1958.</p><p>1st UK Edition. Signed by Author on title page.</p><p>This popular account of Steinbeck's days with his "mentor" Ed Ricketts was a best-seller in the day and is still reprinted up to this day. John Steinbeck adored Ricketts and was compelled to write this emotional record of his time spent with the co-author of THE SEA OF CORTEZ and who also inspired Steinbeck to write his novel CANNERY ROW which he published in 1945.</p><p>Steinbeck was perhaps the finest American writer ever finding fascination in human beings whose small lives he could paint in words so they became as grand drifting clouds with which the reader becomes naturally involved. In THE PEARL we can feel the vain hopeful dreams of a poor young Mexican man slipping away from him. In OF MICE AND MEN the author captured the tension of a well-meaning crook trying to control his own Frankenstein the gentle simple-minded giant named Lenny whose impulses stray into an innocent kind of destructiveness.</p><p>Condition: Very Good. Blue board book covers are clean and smart. While the pages are clean throughout with none turned or torn there is an ink mark to the final page edges which bleeds onto the edge of the final map page and which was probably done by Steinbeck himself as it is in the same kind of black pen ink in which he signed the book. The dust jacket is protected in a mylar covering but shows light wear at the edges and also some light soiling though it is generally still in prresentable condition without any major tears.</p> Heinemann hardcover
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
