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JD30184NY Farrar Straus & Giroux 1976 first edition wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy an uncorrected proof edited by Chase Horton these tales are Steinbeck's attempt to render Malory "into modern English" the importance to Steinbeck and his literature of the Morte d'Arthur cannot be over-stated as he writes in his introduction "I think my sense of right and wrong.and any thought I may have had against the oppressor and for the oppressed came from this book" this copy is especially important because it was one of two copies sent to novelist John Gardner author of such novels as Grendel and The Resurrection Gardner also wrote The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet The Alliterative Morte Arthure and other "olde English" books this copy was sent to Gardner by the New York Times in order to write a review which the Times published laid in loosely is the slip from the Times asking for an 800-word review this was originally obtained from Susan Thornton who was Gardner's fiance at the time of his death according to Morrow 284 there are a number of textual differences between this proof copy and the published version. Very good. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. paperback
19396903New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition First Printing. First edition first printing - with "FIRST PUBLISHED IN APRIL 1939" listed on the copyright page. Measuring approximately 8.25" x 5.5" with 619 numbered pages. Comes with a brand new facsimile reproduction dust jacket for protection and display.<br /> <br /> This book is in very good condition. Moderate surface wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Previous owner's signature on the front endpaper. Minor stains at the preliminary pages which is visible on the title page photo. <br /> <br /> Set during the Great Depression the novel focuses on the Joads a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought economic hardship agricultural industry changes and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work.<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 #P1-93. The Viking Press unknown
0529P301IXJVery Good. Viking first ed. First printing: "First Published in April 1939"; no mention of later printings on copyright page. Cover lettering reddish brown; yellow topstain as issued. In facsimile Dustjacket. Neat and small prev. o's name 1939 on frontpaper. Binding tight pps. bright. Brief ext. soiling. Battle hymn endpapers. Octavo. Tan cloth. STEINBECK JOHN. The Grapes of Wrath. N.Y.: Viking 1939. First Edition. 8vo original pictorial tan cloth stamped in brown pictorial endpapers with sheet music endpapers for "Battle Hymn of the Republic". Spine and joints slightly darkened covers firm and rather clean with few finger smudges text solid and still bright hint only of binding adhesive stains at hinges early ink ownership and blank bookplate at front free endpaper. hardcover
8vo., First Edition thus; elegantly bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, gilt from original backstrip mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
19377839New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket unclipped $2.00 generally toned and rubbed a few small chips and closed tears at the edges. Beige cloth toned at the edges and gutters with brown and black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain foxed at the top edge clean internally. The play adaptation of one of the Nobel Prize-winner's best works and a classic of American literature. Covici-Friede hardcover
19417849New York: The Viking Press 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket unclipped $5.00 generally rubbed stains throughout chipped at the top edge long tear at the front spine fold. Green buckram a few stains front board splayed slightly rubbed at the bottom edge with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound toned at the endpapers bumped at some of the corners clean otherwise. The account of Steinbeck and Ricketts's six week boating and fishing "expedition" in the Gulf of California. The Viking Press hardcover
1953114936London: Cassell & Company Limited 1953. Early printing of Cassell's French-English English-French Dictionary from the library of American literary master John Steinbeck and his wife Elaine Steinbeck. Octavo original cloth. Signed and dated by Steinbeck’s wife Elaine Steinbeck on the front free endpaper "Elaine Steinbeck Paris 1954." In very good condition. One of the first female stage managers on Broadway American actress Mary Elaine Steinbeck studied drama at the University of Texas Austin where she met her first husband Zachary Scott. The couple divorced in 1950 and within a week of their divorce Elaine married John Steinbeck on December 28 1950. A powerful force in John's life Elaine accompanied him on his many international trips and the couple remained married until John's death in December 1968. Cassell & Company, Limited hardcover
1937295947Covici Friede 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. Second state: 'loosely' on page 9 no bullet point between the eights on page 88 Saint Katy the Virgin on the 'also by' list no statement of second or subsequent printing all four dustjacket flaps clipped. Binding tight and square virtually no rubbing to the cloth. The spine of the dustjacket is not at all toned very shallow rubbing at the top of the spine a light scrape near the bottom of the front panel a very short closed tear at the bottom of the front panel another at the top of the rear panel. Covici Friede hardcover
000276Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1942 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Fine/Very Fine. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original wraps in yellow erasure on front panel.Dose not effect conditon. Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1942 Paperback
000276Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1942 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Fine/Very Fine. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original wraps in yellow erasure on front panel.Dose not effect conditon. Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1942 Paperback books
1948WRCLIT59079Los Angeles: RKO / National Screen Services 1948. Complete set of eight 11 x 14 inch color lobby cards. Small marginal mend on verso of card 6 a few minor marginal nicks minor soft creases to card 7 barely visible except on the blank verso light dust smudges to versos but a very good or better set. A complete set including the title card of the lobby cards promoting the 1948 U.S. release of the 1947 film adaptation of Steinbeck's novella. The film first released as LA PERLA was produced in Mexico by Film Asociados Mexico-Americanos in association with Ãguila Films and was directed by Emilio Fernandez who also collaborated with Steinbeck and Jack Wagner on the screenplay. Master of golden age Mexican cinema Gabriel Figueroa served as cinematographer and won a Golden Globe Award for his work on this film. Steinbeck's conception of THE PEARL as a cinematic vehicle from the start he discussed it as a film with Fernandez as early as 1941 and his active participation in its production make it of particular significance in the field of Steinbeck- related film. Complete sets are uncommon. RKO / National Screen Services unknown books
19451811005Viking Press 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good first printing in first issue beige cloth not the second issue cannery yellow cloth in a very good first issue dust jacket with some tape on the inside not visible on the outside of the jacket. Viking Press hardcover books
07945New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1936. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. A spectacular copy of the Third Edition the second edition according to Goldstone & Payne in publisher's dark blue cloth spine printed in gilt; pictorial dust jacket with all 4 flap corners cut at angle and author of "Of Mice and Men" on front panel. Top edges stained blue 269 pages. A fine copy internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind; armorial bookplate. <br/><br/> Covici, Friede Publishers (1936) hardcover books
19321278639New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932. First Edition First Issue. 8vo. 294pp.; G-/no DJ; bound in green cloth spine has faded lettering 'MAY / C.O.' written in white paint on tail of spine covering publishers information; lacking dust jacket; Ex Library bookplate for The May Company on front pastedown cancelled stamp on front pastedown; rear panel on the dust jacket has been pasted onto the ffep; title page and spine both state publisher as 'Brewer Warren & Putnam'; bumping and wear to boards; spine cocked; rear endpaper ripped out small sticker reading 'TheMayCo' on rear pastedown; water stain to upper fore corner of pages 273-end does not impact text; The first edition first issue of The Pastures of Heaven G&P A2a was published in 1932 by Brewer Warren & Putnam. Although the firm printed 2500 sets of sheets only 1650 copies were bound and 650 copies were sold.; KT consignment; shelved case 2. 1278639. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Brewer, Warren & Putnam unknown books
1961121445New York: The Viking Press 1961. First edition of Steinbeck's final novel which with Grapes of Wrath are considered his masterpieces. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Elmer Hader. Lettering by Jeanyee Wong. An exceptional example. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent he had "resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American." Ethan Allen Hawley the protagonist of Steinbeck's last novel works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island's aristocratic class his wife is restless and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day in a moment of moral crisis Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Set in Steinbeck's contemporary 1960 America the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty and today ranks alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. The Viking Press hardcover books
19501195New York: Viking Press 1950. First edition. About fine in near fine jacket. First printing of Steinbeck's experimental work an amalgam of play and novel similar to OF MICE AND MEN. Expanding on the idea first developed in OF MICE AND MEN - adapting aspects of the theater into the structure of a novel - Steinbeck wrote this "play in story form" about the birth of a long-awaited child. The book was staged the same year with Rodgers and Hammerstein as producers. Neither the book nor the play did well but Steinbeck didn't seem to mind: "We were kicked around like dogs but I still want to do it. This shows a truly pure quality of stupidity. Just nuts. I'm so fascinated by everything about the theatre I don't really care if the show's a flop" Interview NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 18 September 1952. A lovely copy. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original full tan cloth front board and spine lettered in red. Original unclipped $2.50 dust jacket in yellow grey and orange. Orange topstain. 159 1 pages. Lightest edgewear to jacket extremities. Tiny spot to fore edge. Overall clear and bright. Viking Press unknown
19504343New York: The Viking Press 1950. First Edition. In Burning Bright Steinbeck attempted to develop a new technique of writing which he termed "play-novelette" - described in the foreword as "a play that is easy to read or a short novel that can be played simply by lifting out the dialogue" Morrow 206. Goldstone & Payne A29.a. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; taupe cloth with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; 1591pp. A Fine copy with the orange topstain bright and unfaded. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 with some trivial wear and dustiness to joints and extremities; very Near Fine with the spine coloring notably bright and without the usual fading. The Viking Press unknown
2207219very good. Postcard of Paris Opera house to Steinbeck's son. Steinbeck's typical bird drawing at bottom. Card in very good condition piece missing. unknown
194110887The Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; Bright Original teal cloth stamped . in silver with red topstain; Slight bump to spine edges and corners . inside end sheets have slight toning; DJ a sea-green red and white . dustwrapper not price-clipped $5.00 has two small chips on front . cover with several tiny tears rubbing on folds but no fading; No marks . or writing clean tight binding;. 1941. First Edition Stated. Hardcover. Shows Steinbeck's long interest in the origins of life; illustrated indrxed; ; 598 pages . The Viking Press hardcover
1941005766Sun Dial Press. First Edition First Printing thus. Un-price clipped DJ in archival cover small corner chip prior owners name. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1941. Sun Dial Press hardcover
1938JS117New York: The Viking Press 1938 First edition first printing. One of 8000 copies. Publisher's beige buckram-backed terracotta boards with spine stamped in red; in its original pictorial dust jacket with wraparound illustration by Elmer Hader and lettered in black and blue. About fine book with light toning to spine and board edges very crisp and clean pages and light offsetting to endpapers; near fine unclipped dust jacket with some toning a few nicks a faint spot of staining to spine light rubbing to spine folds and light wear to foot of spine panels bright and unmarked. Overall an exceptionally fresh copy. The Long Valley is a collection of short fiction which includes the titles: "The Chrysanthemums" "The White Quail" "Flight" "The Snake" "Breakfast" "The Raid" "The Harness" "The Vigilante" "Johnny Bear" "The Murder" "St. Katy the Virgin" "The Leader of the People" and acclaimed novella The Red Pony. The Red Pony is an episodic novella composed of three short stories "The Gift" "The Great Mountains" and "The Promise." It tells the story of Jody Tiflin an adolescent who lives on his father's California ranch and collides with some painful realities of life. Steinbeck's short story "The Murder" was his first work to win a national award winning the O. Henry Prize in 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. New York: The Viking Press hardcover
19321278639New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932. First Edition First Issue. 8vo. 294pp.; G-/no DJ; bound in green cloth spine has faded lettering 'MAY / C.O.' written in white paint on tail of spine covering publishers information; lacking dust jacket; Ex Library bookplate for The May Company on front pastedown cancelled stamp on front pastedown; rear panel on the dust jacket has been pasted onto the ffep; title page and spine both state publisher as 'Brewer Warren & Putnam'; bumping and wear to boards; spine cocked; rear endpaper ripped out small sticker reading 'TheMayCo' on rear pastedown; water stain to upper fore corner of pages 273-end does not impact text; The first edition first issue of The Pastures of Heaven G&P A2a was published in 1932 by Brewer Warren & Putnam. Although the firm printed 2500 sets of sheets only 1650 copies were bound and 650 copies were sold.; KT consignment; shelved Case 13. 1278639. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Brewer, Warren & Putnam unknown
194881304New York: Bantam Books 1948. Unbound. Fine. Color poster for the first Bantam Books paperback edition issued to coincide with the release of the motion picture starring Pedro Armendáriz and María Elena Marqués. Approximately 22" x 28". About fine. Boldly printed the poster reproduces the front wrap of the paperback against a background of images of Armendáriz and Marqués from the film. Very uncommon. Bantam Books unknown
193726472<p><strong>1937 Steinbeck Of Mice and Men California Great Depression 1ed Original Jacket</strong></p><p><em>"Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other." </em></p><p><em>–</em> John Steinbeck <em>Of Mice and Men</em></p><p>'<em>Of Mice and Men'</em> is one of John Steinbeck's best and most iconic books and one of the most famous pieces of American literature. This book tells the tale of immigrant farmers but has largely been one of the most frequently censored and prohibited books because of the references to racism and offensive language.</p><p>Item number: #26472</p><p>Price: $599</p><p>STEINBECK John</p><p><strong><em>Of Mice and Men</em></strong></p><p>New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First edition</p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->186</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Tan cloth</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif--><strong>Original dust jacket</strong></p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~7.5in X 5in 19.5cm x 12.5cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>26472</p><p>Photoos available upon request. </p> Covici-Friede hardcover
1942015715The Viking Press 1942. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In a Facsimile Dust Jacket. The Play 1942 Starring Otto Kruger and Ralph Morgan. 1/200 Copies Bound In Hardcover.Ink Name. Very Scarce. Excellent Fresh Copy. Copyright Reads Second Edition. Sheets from More Common Paper Back Play. The Viking Press Hardcover
