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1947WRCLIT67696New York: Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn 1947. 62pp. Small octavo. Sewn printed wrappers. Decorated title-page. Fine in original envelope. Enclosed in an extravagant full dark blue morocco slipcase gilt extra with silk lined folding insert. First edition. Copy #10 of sixty numbered copies and some out-of-series copies privately printed at the Ward Ritchie Press as the Cohns' Christmas greeting for the year. The first ten copies - of which this example must be counted - were reserved for Steinbeck and the remaining fifty for distribution by the Cohns. The text of a 1938 extended letter by Steinbeck. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A26a. Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn] unknown books
19361804084Covici Friede 1936. 1st Edition Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine signed first limited edition as stated on colophon. Signed by John Steinbeck on colophon. Number 53 of 99 signed copies. Very light shelf wear. Light tanning between boards and endpapers. Slightly spine-cocked. Housed in slipcase. Covici Friede hardcover
1945108060The Viking Press 1945. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First. One of 52 signed and lettered copies in addition to a stated limitation of 699 signed and numbered copies this is letter "FF" of the lettered issue signed by Steinbeck. There were likely 52 lettered copies since double lettered copies such as this have appeared on the market. 1937 1937. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. STEINBECK John. The Red Pony. New York: Covici-Friede 1937. Octavo original pictorial beige cloth uncut original numbered cardboard slipcase. Housed in a custom clamshell box. The three interconnected stories in this volume a fourth was added in the 1945 edition "examine the nature of life and of death and the relationship of the individual to the whole" Benson 288. Without original glassine. Goldstone & Payne A9a. Salinas Public Library 27. Valentine 78. Interior fine. Cloth with slightest toning. Original slipcase lightly worn with a small piece of the top edge of the case detached but present. A lovely copy in very nearly fine condition. The Viking Press hardcover books
193953753New York: The Viking Press 1939. First printing. Near fine. First edition of the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning novel that made Steinbeck a household name. GRAPES OF WRATH has been generations of students' introduction to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Steinbeck's extensive use of symbolism and Biblical motifs also makes it an excellent exercise in literary criticism for both high schoolers and hardcore academics all pulled together with exceptionally lyrical prose. <br /> <br /> GRAPES OF WRATH was an immediate hit and stayed atop bestseller lists for the majority of 1939. But it was not always beloved: the novel was a lighting rod for Steinbeck both professionally and personally. His portrayal of the difficult lives of migrant workers and the corruption of the agriculture business earned him "constant vilification" from powerful farmers' groups and the book was banned and even occasionally burned in a variety of communities Demott. In his diaries Steinbeck lamented how the novel's popularity "got really out of hand became a public hysteria" leading to the idea that he was himself "public domain" Demott. <br /> <br /> This first edition with its hyperbolic but prescient dust jacket editorial copy "Perhaps GRAPES OF WRATH is the greatest modern American novel. the greatest single creative work this country has ever produced" captures the tipping point of Steinbeck's career. 8'' x 5.25''. Original tan buckram binding with brown titles and line art. Original unclipped $2.75 color pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Elmer Hader. Yellow topstain. Endpapers with illustration of the Battle Hymn of the Republic in yellow and orange. 620 pages. Jacket with minor edgewear one tiny chip to spine foot. Book with just a touch of spotting to fore-edge. Overall sharp. The Viking Press unknown
1945108060The Viking Press 1945. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First. One of 52 signed and lettered copies in addition to a stated limitation of 699 signed and numbered copies this is letter "FF" of the lettered issue signed by Steinbeck. There were likely 52 lettered copies since double lettered copies such as this have appeared on the market. 1937 1937. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. STEINBECK John. The Red Pony. New York: Covici-Friede 1937. Octavo original pictorial beige cloth uncut original numbered cardboard slipcase. Housed in a custom clamshell box. The three interconnected stories in this volume a fourth was added in the 1945 edition "examine the nature of life and of death and the relationship of the individual to the whole" Benson 288. Without original glassine. Goldstone & Payne A9a. Salinas Public Library 27. Valentine 78. Interior fine. Cloth with slightest toning. Original slipcase lightly worn with a small piece of the top edge of the case detached but present. A lovely copy in very nearly fine condition. The Viking Press hardcover
19372306078New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First. hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition first issue "pendula" in a fine first issue dust jacket $2.00 price present on front flap with spine very slightly sunfaded but much less than usual. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. A brilliant unread copy. Covici-Friede unknown
1945301618New York: Viking 1945. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good slipcase. Slight bumping to slipcase.; Signed by John Steinbeck on the front end page.; Signed by Author. Viking hardcover
195869044New York: Random House 1958. First edition of this classic collection of stories and the last to be published in her lifetime. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "John Steinbeck With love from Isak Dinesen New York 29.1.1959." In 1959 Dinesen had been invited by the Ford Foundation to travel to the United States to read and discuss her work as part of a film series on "the world's greatest living writers." Despite her failing health--the frail seventy-four-year old weighed just 80 pounds she accepted the invitation. It was on this trip where she met John Steinbeck for cocktails and inscribed this copy. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A remarkable association linking these two giants of twentieth century literature. Two of the stories from the collection have been adapted into films: The Immortal Story as the 1968 film The Immortal Story directed by Orson Welles starring Jeanne Moreau and Babette's Feast as the 1987 Danish film Babette's Feast directed by Gabriel Axel. Random House hardcover books
1939123737New York: The Viking Press 1939. First edition with "First Published in April 1939" on copyright page and first edition notice on the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo original beige cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear contemporary name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Elmer Hader. An exceptional example. "The Grapes of Wrath is the kind of art thats 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
193926543New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. 8vo publisher’s original pictorially decorated tan cloth in original first issue dustjacket with price and "First Edition" statement both present. vi 619 pp. A handsome bright and clean copy the dustjacket whole and without tears light evidence of shelving over time the backstrip of the dustjacket just a touch mellowed by age clean and bright internally solid and very well preserved. AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION AND PERHAPS THE GREATEST BOOK WRITTEN BY THIS NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR. John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel of migrant workers in America. The story of the Joad family simple people living close to nature whose lives are disrupted by the malevolent forces of drought market conditions and human greed. The novel graphically demonstrates the dangers to society when the vital like between rural man and the Earth is broken.<br> The condition of this copy in the pictorial jacket is quite pleasing indeed. The Viking Press hardcover
1939160735New York: Viking Press 1939. First Edition. First Edition. First issue dust jacket with first edition statement at the bottom front jacket flap. Wraparound jacket art by Elmer Hader whose work graced four Steinbeck titles. <br /> <br /> Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece literature's lasting testament to the Great Depression singled-out in his citation for the Nobel Prize decades later. Basis for the 1940 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Ford and supporting actress Jane Darwell won Academy Awards for their work. <br /> <br /> Near Fine in a bright Near Fine dust jacket. Small tap on the top edge of the rear board. Jacket is lightly toned along the top edges of the flaps and spine with a touch of rubbing on the flap folds and two tiny chips on the crown. An attractive copy. <br /> <br /> Ahearn APG 014d. Viking Press unknown
19402422<p>First Chilean Edition; Presentation Copy. A Good to Very Good Softcover Edition with Original Pictorial Wrappers. SIGNED and Inscribed from Steinbeck to Natalya Lovejoy wife of Ritchie Lovejoy and a close friend who was part of Steinbeck's Monterrey circle. Inscription reads "Para Natalya / con todo santas / Su seguro ser midos / John / who loves you." A unique presentation copy of this classic of American Literature; a one of a kind item. This copy is in good to very good condition showing some creasing to the edges and folds of the wrappers some sunning and creasing to the spine some toning to the pages and moderate foxing to the inside covers; housed in a beautiful custom cloth-covered slipcase with a gilt lettered morocco title piece. An excellent and important addition to any Steinbeck or American Literature collection. Will be carefully wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box.</p> Zig Zag paperback
193913547JNew York: Viking Press 1939. Original advertising poster issued by the Viking Press as for display in bookstores to promote the original publication of The Grapes of Wrath. The poster’s lettering announces “John Steinbeck's New Novelâ€. Illustrated with a reproduction of the now classic original dust jacket art by Elmer Hader 12-1/4 x 18-1/4 inches a much larger form than that of the issued jacket image. Overall 22 x 18-1/4 inches. Some very unobtrusive light spotting; minor use at edges with a slight bump to the lower left corner; but unfaded and unchipped. Would be most attractive framed. An excellent literary poster which was rarely preserved. Viking Press unknown books
1947228021New York Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn Christmas 1947. 1947. First edition. 12mo. Title page printed in red and black. Original stitched printed buff wrappers. Fine fresh copy. No signatures. One of only 60 copies out of series. Ward Ritchie's copy with his small bookplate. Printed by the Ward Ritchie Press Los Angeles California. Goldstone & Payne A26a. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. [New York, Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn] Christmas, 1947. paperback books
1939229533New York The Viking Press 1939. 1939. First edition. 8vo. Full modern red morocco gilt covers with double gilt rule panel surrounding gilt grape and grape vine a.e.g. spine with raised bands. Red cloth dropbox. Fine fresh copy. No signatures or bookplates. With a fine foredge painting being a variation of the dust jacket image of a farm family on the roadside observing migrants heading west. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. New York, The Viking Press [1939]. hardcover books
1933140938338New York: Robert O. Ballou 1933. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first issue. Signed by Mahlon Blaine whose illustrations appear on the the dust jacket endsheets and title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine. Cloth lightly sunned through jacket at spine and along top and bottom edges. Pages toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear at the spine ends and a short closed tear along the top edge of the front panel with some faint associated creasing. A lovely copy signed by the illustrator. In the early '20s Blaine met a young John Steinbeck on the Panama Canal and the two quickly became friends. Blaine would go on illustrate the dust jacket and endsheets for Steinbeck's first novel Cup of Gold as well as for this title. Goldstone & Payne A3a. Robert O. Ballou unknown books
1942003556New York: Viking 1942. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. First Edition. Inscribed by John Steinbeck on the front free endpaper in black ink: "For Basil Bass with many thanks for a great deal of help in this project John Steinbeck". Dustjacket has light expert color touch-up with $2.50 price on the front flap. The book's spine is lightly darkened. Housed in a beautiful quarter blue leather slipcase with gilt lettering. Uncommon title to be signed by Steinbeck. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. Viking Hardcover
1937332643New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First. hardcover. Small 8vo tan cloth stamped in terra cotta & black; dust wrapper. New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First Edition.<br/> <br/> Excellent copy except for 2 chips on the top edge of the dust wrapper with the two first issue points on pages 9 & 88 and the $2.00 price on the wrapper. Housed in a 1/4 sienna morocco slipcase.<br/> <br/> Covici-Friede unknown
193773771New York:: Covici Friede 1937. First edition first state. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. A fine copy in a bright fresh dust jacket with very slight use to the extremities of the backstrip. The backstrip has some of the usual tanning. . 8vo. Covici Friede, hardcover
193913547JNew York: Viking Press 1939. Original advertising poster issued by the Viking Press as for display in bookstores to promote the original publication of The Grapes of Wrath. The poster’s lettering announces “John Steinbeck's New Novelâ€. Illustrated with a reproduction of the now classic original dust jacket art by Elmer Hader 12-1/4 x 18-1/4 inches a much larger form than that of the issued jacket image. Overall 22 x 18-1/4 inches. Some very unobtrusive light spotting; minor use at edges with a slight bump to the lower left corner; but unfaded and unchipped. Would be most attractive framed. An excellent literary poster which was rarely preserved. Viking Press unknown
1941140947201New York: The Viking Press 1941. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof of Steinbeck's account of a collecting expedition in the Gulf of California with his friend Edward Ricketts a marine biologist. This is what Goldstone & Payne term the "first edition issue in wrappers" though this is in fact an advance copy of the first edition. Bound in brown paper wrappers with French flaps typewritten label to front cover. Near Fine with light staining to wrappers and text block edges slant to spine offsetting to endpapers from flaps and light even toning throughout. Scarce. <p>The label notes that the proof contains the introduction and narrative but not the illustrations or scientific appendix of the final publication. The Viking Press unknown
19573236201957. unbound. fine. 4 page single-spaced carbon typescript of an original short story apparently sent to a few friends as a holiday keepsake. This scatalogical tale was never in print as no book house would accept it for obvious reasons. Presentation copy to Nick Cassavetes brother of John with a four word inscription in Greek. Undated but circa 1957.<br/> <br/> In order to preserve the integrity of its unpublished state we won't disclose the full transcript but can say that the story tells of a peculiar incident occurring in an elementary school bathroom -- it is true to Steinbeck's style of capturing with simplicity and economy of word the fascination children have with their bodily functions. Although today the story would not be deemed "unpublishable" in the context of the 50's it is completely understandable why even such a literary giant as Steinbeck could not find a publisher for it.<br/> <br/> unknown
1947376141New York: Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn 1947. First edition copy no. 10 of sixty numbered copies and some out-of-series copies privately printed. Decorated title-page. 6 2 pp. Small 8vo. Sewn printed wrappers. Fine in original plain envelope as issued. Full dark blue morocco folding case extravagantly gilt with silk lined folding insert. First edition copy no. 10 of sixty numbered copies and some out-of-series copies privately printed. Decorated title-page. 6 2 pp. Small 8vo. 'the most profound double-barrelled synchro-mesh watch tragedy the world has ever known' <br /> <br /> The First Watch printing a 1938 letter from Steinbeck to "Mr. G." Arnold Gingrich editor of Esquire magazine was privately printed by the Ward Ritchie Press as a Christmas greeting from the proprietors of the influential bookselling firm House of Books in New York City. The first ten copies - among which this example must be counted - were reserved for Steinbeck and the remaining fifty for distribution by the Cohns. Goldstone & Payne A26a Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn] unknown
1939140948294New 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 typical offsetting scattered tiny stains to fore edge of textblock. In a Near Fine correct dust jacket with publisher's price $2.75 and "First Edition" statement present on front flap lightly worn and toned several small stains to spine panel and label residue to rear flap. Goldstone & Payne A12.<br /> <br /> <p>The classic Great Depression novel winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize and inspiration for the acclaimed 1940 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda. The Viking Press unknown
1933140938338New York: Robert O. Ballou 1933. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first issue. Signed by Mahlon Blaine whose illustrations appear on the the dust jacket endsheets and title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine. Cloth lightly sunned through jacket at spine and along top and bottom edges. Pages toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear at the spine ends and a short closed tear along the top edge of the front panel with some faint associated creasing. A lovely copy signed by the illustrator. In the early '20s Blaine met a young John Steinbeck on the Panama Canal and the two quickly became friends. Blaine would go on illustrate the dust jacket and endsheets for Steinbeck's first novel Cup of Gold as well as for this title. Goldstone & Payne A3a. Robert O. Ballou unknown
