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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
19454091New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 7 3/8" x 4 3/4" First Issue January 1945 ADVANCE REVIEW COPY 208pp. 1pp. list of Steinbeck's other works. Bound in blue paper wraps lettered in black; A very good to fine copy and scarce in nice condition. <br/><br/> The Viking Press paperback books
19451402072The Viking Press 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good in a very good dust jacket. First Edition first state. First Published by The Viking Press in January 1945 stated on the copyright page. Book is bound in original mustard colored cloth not the bright yellow of later printings. Book has slight edge wear. Dust jacket shows original price of $2.00 printed on the front flap; some chipping along the edges at corners and spine ends. Rubbing along the edges and some darkening of the back panel. The Viking Press hardcover books
19451505950Viking Press 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A fine first edition first issue with the beige not the canary yellow cloth in a near fine dust jacket with original price of $2.00 still present. Previous owner's period handsome bookplate dated January 19 1945 which would make this a very early copy of the book that was published in 1945. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Viking Press hardcover books
19451406043The Viking Press 1945. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good in wrappers with a very good dust jacket. Advance Review Copy. Original blue paper wrappers. There is a small tear at the bottom of spine hinge to front; very slight tanning on the edges. The dust jacket has the original price of $2.00 printed on the front flap. Moderate chipping at the corners and along the edges. A small piece is missing from the top and bottom spine ends; moderate amount of soiling. Comes housed in a collector's slipcase. The Viking Press unknown books
1945151021003New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing. In first state buff cloth binding. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket with price of $2.00 intact. Previous owner name and date to front free end paper. Slight darkening to cloth at gutters. Dust jacket shows rubbing at extremities toning and light edge wear. First state binding. The Viking Press hardcover books
JD29396first edition. n.p. NY n.p. The Viking Press n.d. 1944 first edition wrappers. Softcover. <br/><br/> Advance copy an uncorrected galley proof bound in plain unprinted tannish wrappers printed on rectos only a very scarce advanced state of this minor or not so minor Steinbeck masterpiece whose themes of death and loneliness are masked by its surface layer of humor all the more rare in that this is an Author Presentation Copy Inscribed by Steinbeck to the best man at his second marriage Howard O. Hunter who was the Works Progress Administration WPA commissioner in the early 1940s under the FDR administration Steinbeck and his second wife Gwen Conger were married March 29 1943 just 11 days after receiving his final divorce decree from his first wife Carol Steinbeck has Inscribed the first preliminary as follows "For Howard/who really/belongs in/Cannery Row/John Steinbeck/last night in New York 1944" this galley lacks all the preliminaries found in the 1945 published version such as half titles title page copyright page dedication page etc. although not specifically cited in Goldstone & Payne there is a notation under G&P A22a that "a copy of the unrevised galley proofs is in the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas" see Morrow 172 that copy with a yellow label on front giving publication date and price that is not on this copy--the Morrow copy was not signed or inscribed now housed in a beautiful custom clamshell case with leather spine laid in loosely is a letter of provenance from Ellen Leonard who was given this proof by Hunter's wife Edna. This was bound for in-house use by Viking and not for sale thus it was never meant to be in great condition even when new spine ends are chipped there is offsetting from printed pages onto the previous verso some pages are becoming dis-bound. hardcover books
194519051New York: Viking Press 1945. First Edition. Second Issue. Octavo 19cm; yellow cloth with titling and rule stamped in blue on spine and front panel; blue topstain; dustjacket; 208pp. Hint of darkening to spine with faint staining along joints and fading to topstain; Near Fine. In later dustjacket advertising war bonds on rear panel; both corners clipped spine gently sunned with light wear short tears and small stains to spine on verso; Very Good. A novel set amidst the sardine fisheries of Monterey CA revolving around the lives of those who lived there during the Depression. Basis for the 1982 David Ward film starring Nick Nolte Debra Winger and Audra Lindley. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A22.b HANNA 3340. Viking Press unknown 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
194512483JNew York: Viking 1945. First Edition in the yellow cloth binding issued simultaneously with the beige cloth. Fine clean copy without dust jacket. Viking hardcover books
194512025JNew York: Viking Press 1945. First Edition First State beige issue binding. Fine clean copy in a bright very good price-clipped dust jacket with a few minute nicks and a few small expertly mended by a paper conservationist. Viking Press unknown books
194510718JNew York: Viking 1945. First Edition First State in beige cloth. A little soiling and rubbing to cloth very good in a very good dust jacket with some tiny nicking and tears some vertical marks on the inside flaps and some small internal repairs. Viking hardcover books
1945120332New York: The Viking Press 1945. First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards gilt titles and tooling to the spine raised bands. In fine condition. John Steinbeck's picaresque novel set against the backdrop of the sardine canneries vacant lots flophouses and honky-tonks of Monterey California "was as complex as Steinbeck was. In a way it was a summation of all his conflicts and contradictions and all that he had learned. It was Steinbeck-funny and deadly serious all at the same time sentimental and coldly deterministic loving and satirical lyrical and yet very precise. Nowhere else in his work is his poetry so well controlled and nowhere else does he cut quite so deep" Benson 554-5. The Viking Press hardcover books
1929319434New York: Robert M. McBride 1929. First edition first issue of the author's first book. vi 269 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original yellow cloth titled in black on front cover and spine top edge stained blue; pictorial dust jacket designed by Mahlon Blaine with $2.50 price present; tan cloth slipcase. The cloth in unusually bright condition; the jacket spine panel lightly faded and with wear at ends affective the lettering of the title a few abrasions to front and back panels. Despite these flaws a bright and entirely original copy of a book infrequently found in collector's condition. First edition first issue of the author's first book. vi 269 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. FIRST EDITION of the future Nobel laureate's elusive first book published when he was 27 years old. One of 1537 copies the publisher printed 2476 copies 939 of which were remaindered as unbound sheets. This was Steinbeck's fourth attempt at a novel and was rewritten six times from an unpublished story titled "A Lady in Infra-Red" which he composed while at Stanford. "Aside from a few reviews the only early recognition . was Berton Braley's 'thanks and acknowledgements' for Steinbeck's permission to use some of the incidents in a doggerel epic 'Morgan Sails the Caribbean' 1934" Peter Lisca 'The Wide World of John Steinbeck' Rutgers UP 1958. Goldstone & Payne A1a Robert M. McBride unknown books
19291244328New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1929. First edition. Octavo. Hardcover in original yellow cloth; no dust jacket. Author's first book one of only 1537 printed. Boards soiled; rubbed at extremities; spine sunned; foxing to endpapers; foxing and water damage to first few pages of text; piece missing from page one not affecting text. Scattered foxing throughout. Good copy only. KT Consignment. Shelved in Case #2. 1244328. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Robert M. McBride & Company unknown books
1936273477New York: Covici Friede 1936. hardcover. fine/near fine. 8vo dark blue cloth stamped in gilt; top stained blue; d.w. New York: Covici Friede 1936.<br/><br/> First reissue sometimes called 2nd edition of Steinbeck first book and only historical novel. The very fine colorful dust wrapper is the second issue. with no publishers name on the spine and "Of Mice and Men" on the front cover. The flaps are cut diagonally in all four corners.<br/><br/> Covici Friede unknown books
1936273497New York: Covici Friede 1936. hardcover. very good/fine. 8vo maroon cloth spine stamped in gilt; top stained blue; d.w. New York: Covici Friede 1936.<br/><br/> First reissue sometimes called 2nd edition of Steinbeck first book and only historical novel. The very fine colorful dust wrapper is the second issue. with no publishers name on the spine and "Of Mice and Men" on the front cover. The flaps are cut diagonally in all four corners but the upper front flap may have been priced. The cloth spine is faded & rubbed at the bottom edge.<br/><br/> Covici Friede unknown 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 books
19360019201936 1936. Soft cover. Published in 1936 by the Armed Services by arrangement with The Viking Press. This is an Armed Services Edition. The front cover states: "Overseas edition for the Armed Forces. Distributed by he Special Services Division for the Army and by the Bureau of Naval Personnel for the Navy. U.S. Government property. Not for sale. Published by Editions for the Armed Services Inc. a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime." Softcover. 4" x 5 1/2". Book very good with some edgewear some chipping at spine ends some rubbing on spine edges of pages darkened. 1936 unknown books
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
1936W34322BNew York: Covici-Friede 1936. Author's first book the first edition of which sold 1533 copies. Introduction by Lewis Gannett of the New York Herald Tribune. Top edge stained dark blue to match original cloth. Head of spine chipped with small material loss and top edge of lower cover slightly skinned. Gilt on spine very bright. Some faint color loss on lower cover. Jacket edges chipped especially on top. Spine and folds darkened. What appears to be dark pencil markings in 2 small areas on upper cover of jacket. Lower panel of jacket has pinkish mark and 1" closed tear at lower edge. Second Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Covici-Friede Hardcover books
1936WRCLIT55972New York: Covici Friede 1936. Blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Spine gilding oxidized in a few places endsheets darkened at gutters but a very good copy in dust jacket the latter with some tanning and light spotting to the spine panel and a short creased snag at crown. Second edition of the author's first book including Lewis Gannett's Preface issued to capitalize on the success of Steinbeck's more successful works from the early 1930s. This second edition was preceded by the first edition and an issue of McBride's original sheets conjoined with new prelims. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A1c. Covici Friede hardcover books
19369422New York: Covici Friede 1936. Second Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt- and blind-stamped pictorial dust jacket. Former owner's label on upper pastedown. Some minor wear to dust jacket spotting to back panel. Second Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Goldstone & Payne A1c Covici, Friede unknown books
192907943New York: Robert M. McBride & Co 1929. First Ediiton. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. First issue of the author's first book; yellow cloth printed in black 269 pages top edges stained blue. "First published August 1929" on copyright page. One of just 1537 copies printed. A very near fine copy internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind. <br/><br/> Robert M. McBride & Co hardcover books
07947New York 1936: Covici Friede Publishers. Third Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. The Printer's copy with pencilled instructions on front free end paper regarding changes to be made for the Sun Dial Press edition. Publisher's blue cloth spine gilt 269 pages dust jacket with author of "Of Mice and Men" on front panel. The directions for cloth binding paper ink and revised dust jacket and wrapper band. Title page with "Covici Friede" pencilled out and "The Sun Dial Press" added in pencil; note on verso "OK as is 11/14/39." <br/><br/> Covici, Friede Publishers hardcover books
