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19405824San Francisco Calif: Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte 1940. Large octavo 62 pages. Index. Illustrated; printed throughout in black and pale brown. Second edition originally published under the slightly different title Famous Recipes of Famous People and issued by the Hotel del Monte without Sunset Magazine in 1936. A compilation of celebrity recipes with the recipes attributed to the famous including: Gertrude Stein John Steinbeck Walt Disney J. Edgar Hoover Rube Goldberg and many others. Also includes a section of recipes of well-known chefs of the day with a bias toward California Hotels and the west in general as well as a short section of recipes from the Hotel Del Monte. The playful illustrations by Sinclair Ross alternately reference Hollywood and the frontier West. Endpapers reproduce the autographs of many of the celebrities featured in the book. Publisher's gilt-decorated cream-colored boards near fine. In clean and bright yellow dust jacket printed in blue and orange but with several good-sized chips to the front and rear panels. Dust jacket is good only. Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte hardcover books
194508866REX STOUT MYSTERY QUARTERLY #1 1945 Joseph Meyers / Avon first edition very good to very good plus in wraps. Contains the work of Rex Stout John Steinbeck Dashiell Hammett Agatha Christie W. W. Jacobs H. F. Heard Dorothy L. Sayers & Bruno Fischer. Joseph Meyers / Avon paperback
1952139301New York Random House 1952 1952. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 128 pages; Description: 128 p. 29 cm. Subjects; Presidents --United States --Election --1952. United States --Politics and government --1945-1953. Typed LETTER from Stevenson on headed-paper of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies not signed. Other Chicago committee members listed on the letter's margin. New York, Random House [1952] hardcover
195214626New York: Random House 1952. First Edition. Wras. Very good. 4to. Photographic wraps. Moderate wear thumb creasing to outer edge wraps. Contents lightly toned in line with age. Sound unmarked. <br/><br/>A printed volume of speeches by Stevenson with a foreword by John Steinbeck and a brief biography of Stevenson by Debs Myers and Ralph Martin. 128pp. Goldstone and Payne B75 Random House unknown books
1952166012New York: Random House 1952. First edition. Softcover. First printing. 128 pages. A collection of the speeches from the two time U.S. democratic Presidential candidate. Foreword by John Steinbeck. Brief biography of Stevenson by Debs Myers and Ralph Martin. A very good copy in wrappers with some minor wear to the top of the spine and elsewhere and a former owner's rubberstamp name and address to the title page. Still a solid copy. Random House unknown books
19436221<p><strong>First book appearance of Irwin Shaw in Russian. War-time edition. Very rare. </strong></p><p>This unusual illustrated edition was published specifically for young readers.<br />It includes: '<em>Strawberry Ice Cream Soda'</em> by <strong>Shaw</strong> from his first story collection '<em>Sailor Off the Bremen'</em>; a part of the novella '<em>The Red Pony'</em> by <strong>John Steinbeck</strong>; '<em>Big Two-Hearted River'</em> and '<em>A Day's Wait'</em> by <strong>Ernest Hemingway;</strong> excerpts from '<em>Paul Bunyan'</em> by J<strong>ames Stevens;</strong> and two stories by <strong>Erskine Caldwell</strong>.<br />The illustrations are by <strong>Tatiana Mavrina</strong> Lebedeva; 1900/1902–1996 a graduate of VKHUTEMAS. She was a member of '<em>Group 13'</em> an association of graphic artists founded in 1929. Like many Russian avant-garde artists of her generation she turned to children's book illustration in the 1930s as a means of artistic expression that allowed her to avoid political repression during the Stalin era. Despite enduring hunger and hardship during WWII in Moscow her illustrations remained tender vibrant and full of life. Mavrina is the first Russian artist to have received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration.</p><p>Libman #890.</p><p>We couldn't trace any copy of this edition via OCLC.</p> Detgiz paperback
19942111902161001726Iwanamishoten 1994. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Iwanamishoten paperback
19882110502150201484Iwanamishoten 1988. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 Iwanamishoten paperback
Penguin Books 1990. B&W Photographs lvii, 180 p. ill., facsims. 19 cm. Very good condition.
188p. 12mo. Original full embossed blue cloth binding, spine lettered in silver. Original dust jacket, price clipped, extremities chipped. Hardbound. Not the true first. LIT BOX 4 x2
131p. Numerous water color drawings by Wesley Dennis. Decorated title page. Color paste downs and end papers. 8vo. Original full cloth binding with color pictorial paper label. Slip case, worn. First illustrated edition. HORSE 1
1949152081Copenhagen, Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1949. 475 S., 8° OHalbleder, mit goldgeprägten Rückentitel
1953152082Copenhagen, Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1953. 462 S., 8° OHalbleder, mit goldgeprägten Rückentitel
18983075346Leipzig: Dörffling & Franke 1898. VI, 254 Seiten. 8° (17,5 - 22,5 cm). Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].
JD35566n.p. J. Wilson McKenney 1959 first edition. A broadside that excerpts an article on teachers originally written for and published by the "CTA Journal" in November 1955 this is one of the great Steinbeck rarities so rare that it is virtually unknown it is one of only 12 copies hand-set and printed by McKenney so stated McKenney was the printer for the "CTA California Teachers Association Journal" as well as the magazine's editor he had also been a book publisher via his Wilmac Press he was able to gain approval of his printing this broadside only after agreement between himself Steinbeck and his agents that the print-run would be small enough so as to be not commercially viable the broadside measures c.10X14 inches the text is about the three teachers who were most important in Steinbeck's life he specifically mentions Ed Ricketts by number this would be the second rarest Steinbeck collectible it is so rare that no Steinbeck collection public or private is known to have a copy not recorded by Goldstone & Payne Morrow or Holmes THIS WAS THE PRINTER'S OWN PERSONAL COPY the verso is inscribed by his widow thusly "My husband was J. Wilson McKenney. One of his greatest accomplishments was this Steinbeck broadside. This was his own personal copy which I now inscribe to Jim Dourgarian and his daughter Tracy. Mariam McKenney. 6/6/89" now housed in a wood and glass frame this is one of those items that can actually be called rare. Aged but framed to visually eliminate that age presents as fine. n.p., J. Wilson McKenney, 1959, first edition. unknown
JD29206San Francisco CTA Journal 1952-1969 first edition. These hardcovers are bound volumes being from Vol. 48 through Vol. 65 which cover the reign of its former owner J. Wilson McKenney who was editor of the CTA California Teachers Association Journal from September 1952 until May 1970 he was also publisher of his own "Out West" magazine who also published materials having to do with California history mining deserts and the like through his Wilmac Press the piece by Steinbeck was published in the November 1955 issue page 7 which McKenney later published separately as a broadside limited to just 12 copies in 1959 which is one of the rarest of all Steinbeck items the original article was part of a series the CTA Journal published on famous Californians others included in that series were Herbert Hoover Ralph Bunche Walt Disney Earl Warren and others all of these bound volumes came from the library of McKenney see Goldstone & Payne C127 not recorded by Morrow. The bindings are all at least very good the bound-in issues are fine. San Francisco, CTA Journal, 1952-1969, first edition. hardcover
194313991AVON. NY 1943. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1943. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First paperback edition. Very good to near fine. In trade size paperback wrappers. Paper darkening with age. Traces of light shelf-wear at edges of covers Deletes one story from the original collection. . AVON. NY 1943 paperback
1968272140Old Whalers Festival Inc 1968. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 92 pages. 7-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. Festival booklet. Illustrated in black-and-white. Steinbeck is listed as Honorary Chairman. First edition first printing. Very good in stapled wrappers paperback.<br> Old Whalers Festival, Inc paperback
2013x-9814374032World Scientific Pub Co Inc 2013. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 747 pages. 9.50x6.75x1.50 inches. World Scientific Pub Co Inc hardcover
19574405New York: Viking. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket rear panelis spotted and lightly soiled. Spine edge had been taped most of it's length and there is a little loss at head and heel of spine. Page 128 has been dog earred and there is spotting to top of page 126 127128129and the edge of 131.; 8vo; Unpaginated pages . Viking hardcover
19540818127Paris: Del Duca 1954. First French Edition. Paperback. Very good-/Very good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In red jacket with black and white titling over ivory wraps with black titling and yellow upper cover border 8vo 748pp. Signed and Inscribed By Author on blank preliminary page in blue ink: "For Jim A. Afrassemoff - With Pleasure - John Steinbeck". A wonderful presentation copy of Bonnardot's french translation of Steinbeck's classic East of Eden which became the basis of the 1955 Warner Bros. film directed by Elia Kazan and starring James Dean Raymond Massey and Jo Van Fleet. light shelfwear and rubbing to outer extremities page edges and margins uniformly toned from age light creasing to inner hinges. Del Duca paperback
JD39148Stamford Overbrook Press 1940 first edition dust jacket. Hardcover. One of 350 hardcover copies issued after a one-sheet four-page "throw-away" it includes an exchange of letters between Steinbeck and L. M. Birkhead about Steinbeck's ancestry whether Steinbeck's was Jewish and whether The Grapes of Wrath was Jewish propaganda Goldstone & Payne A13b Morrow catalogue No. 134 a very scarce book seldom seen and seldom offered for sale scarce in the original glassine dust jacket. Both book and jacket are fine especially scarce thus. Stamford, Overbrook Press, 1940, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover
196481335San Francisco: Roxburgh & Zamorano Clubs 1964. First edition. 4to. 8 pp. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 copies printed as a keepsake for the biennial meeting of the clubs. First appearance in print of this humorous note which Steinbeck wrote to one of his professors the father of the printer Sherwood Grover while attending Stanford University c. 1920. Goldstone & Payne A42. San Francisco: Roxburgh & Zamorano Clubs, unknown
196421389Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs. Fine with no dust jacket. 1964. Softcover. Stitched cream wraps titled in red. Limited to 150 copies. Trace of edgewear to rear cover else fine condition. A letter to Steinbeck's professor of English. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs paperback
196413952Aptos Calif: Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs 1964. First Edition one of 150 copies printed at the Grace Hoper Press. 12pp. 1 vols. 4to. Printed wrappers a lttile rumpled and soiled othewise very good. First Edition one of 150 copies printed at the Grace Hoper Press. 12pp. 1 vols. 4to. A letter to Steinbeck's professor of English explaing his "training in versification". Goldstone & Payne A42 Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs unknown
