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1937140946360New York: Covici Friede 1937. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing first issue with "pendula" on page 9 and a bullet between the two 8's of the page number on page 88. Signed by John Steinbeck on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. 186 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth stamped in orange and black. Near Fine with slight lean to binding contents lightly tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning to spine minor edge wear with several short closed tears. Small strip of offsetting to verso at spine from a previous dust jacket protector. <p>A scarce signed edition of John Steinbeck's Western novella about the struggles of two itinerant farm workers George and Lennie in California during the Great Depression. One of only 2500 copies printed in the first issue. Covici Friede unknown
19379031194New York: Covici Friede 1937. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. First edition second state. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth with spine and cover stamped in red and black. Spine slightly darkened. 4 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches. 186 pages. <br/><br/> Covici Friede hardcover
1937x1273New York: Covici Friede 1937. Early book club printing of the classic novel of lonely working men and impossible dreams. No price on flap altered text on page 9 Haddon Craftsmen credit on copyright page includes Saint Katy in list of author's works. Hardcover in jacket as pictured - light wear to book minor spine slant ink name; jacket tanned with chips & tears. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Duodecimo. Covici Friede Hardcover
1947003406Cleveland: The World Publishing Company 1947. Book. Illus. by Manso Leo. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Stated Tower Books Edition First Printing March 1947. Published by The World Publishing Company. The dustjacket art by Leo Manso is different from the Viking Press edition. Bound in black cloth with yellow lettering. The pages are lightly browned due to the cheap paper used after WW11. Otherwise the book and dustjacket are in fine condition. Very rare in this condition. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. The World Publishing Company Hardcover
1939003426Garden City: The Sun Dial Press 1939. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. First Sun Dial Press Printing 1939. Fine book is bound in brown cloth is tight and square with no marks of any kind. Price clipped dustjacket is also in fine condition. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. The Sun Dial Press Hardcover
1939003424New York: Triangle Books 1939. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Photoplay Edition. Printed by Triangle Books in a small print run to co-inside with the Hal Roach movie directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Burgess Meredith Lon Chaney Jr. and Betty Field. Fifteenth printing stated. Scenes from the movie are on the back panel of the dustjacket and different artwork from the first edition on the cover. Triangle also issued another edition with the more common Covici Friede artwork. Book is fine with no marks of any kind. Dustjacket has light rubbing to the corners and spine ends. There is a three inch piece of brown tape at the top middle on the reverse of the dustjacket which is invisible from the front. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. Triangle Books Hardcover
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
1937634109Modern Library 1937. Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. Early printing with 95 cents a book on flap. Book lists to 309 on inside of DJ. DJ is chipped and has tears esp at top edge. Interior is lightly toned but unmarke. Marked fair because endpaper is peeling off at hinge but otherwise nice and tight. Modern Library hardcover
1937LPB009623JS<p>New York: Covici Friede 1937. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Apparent first book club edition with Haddon Craftsmen listed as the pinter on copyrigt page. In lovely beige cloth with brown title panels and black bars. Sharp corners clean interior and solid binding. Only slight cock to spine. Small stain in rear binding gutter tanning to page ends with small spot to front and tanning to rear hinge. Jacket has large chips to head of spine and smaller to heel and corners. Tanning to spine flap creases and panel edges and stains to heel of spine and top of front panel near flap crease.</p> Covici Friede hardcover
1937001813London England: William Heinemann 1937. First British Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Missing front free end paper; dust jacket spine missing two large pieces and lightly soiled; black and white illustrations by Michael Rothenstein; 12mo; with 164 pages. <br/> <br/> William Heinemann hardcover
193724508New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First edition second printing. Hardcover. Orig. tan cloth backstrip and front cover decorated and lettered. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 186. 19 x 12.5 cm. A riveting tale of friendship dreams and the struggles faced by people during the Great Depression. Their journey underscores the challenges of the era and explores themes of loyalty ambition and the human yearning for a place to call home. This work was one of the most commonly censored and prohibited books because of the references to racism and offensive language. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A7b. Covici-Friede hardcover
9780141185101PENGUIN CLASSICS. new. Drifters in search of work George and his simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch but their hopes are doomed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty misunderstanding and jealousy - becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes friendship and a shared vision and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossesed OF MICE AND MEN remains Steinbeck's most popular work. PENGUIN CLASSICS unknown
193885250London: Readers' Union Limited 1938. Text bright light spotting throughout predominantly on the margins heavier spotting on prelims binding firm light rubbing and shelf wear to boards text box on spine worn binding firm. Hard. Good. 8vo. Readers' Union Limited Hardcover
19379971London: William Heinemann Ltd 1937. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Octavo. 4 164 pp. frontis illus. First English edition first printing. As issued in blue cloth with dust jacket. This copy with rare advertisement bell band. Slight forward lean; spine a trifle faded; dust jacket with toning particularly at the spine; minor chip at the top almost touching the titling; closed tears down the spine; some early tape repair to the back of the jacket; edges toned; 6s price intact on the front flap. <br /> <br /> An reasonably good copy of the first English edition of one of Steinbeck's most important books. This copy being comports with "variant I" in Goldstone with pink top edge and endpaper and dust jacket in pink and black. The bell band advertising the popularity of the book in American is quite rare. Goldstone A7.c. William Heinemann Ltd unknown
193734156New York: Covici-Friede 1937. 1st Edition. Very Good /Very Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition second state. First book club edition with no price on the dust jacket and the Haddon Craftsmen listed as the printers on the copyright page.Octavo 8vo 186 pp. A very good or better copy in the publisher's original tan cloth stamped in brown and black to the spine and upper board. Light edgewear and toning showing a well read novel. All relevant issue points present including the correction with no dot between the 8's on page 88 and "Loosely" printed on page 9 among others. Previous owner's calligraphic signature to the front free endpaper.<br /> <br /> Housed in a very good unclipped original dust jacket illustrated by Ross MacDonald with some chipping to the spine ends edges and corners and toning to the margins. "This is not a facsimile dustjacket".<br /> <br /> A landmark of 20th-century American literature Of Mice and Men established Steinbeck's reputation and paved the way toward his Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath and later the Nobel Prize in Literature. The novella's enduring power lies in its portrayal of friendship loneliness and the pursuit of dreams during the Great Depression. Adapted for stage and screen numerous times it remains one of Steinbeck's most widely read works.<br /> <br /> An appealing and affordable example for the new Steinbeck collector. Covici-Friede unknown
1937LPB010381JS<p>New York: Covici Friede 1937. First US Edition. Hardcover. Good/N/A. Second state with all relevant points. Book in beige cloth with brown and black design motifs to frame title on front board and spine. Some light soiling marks to cloth and tanning to page ends. Moisture stain to bottom front corner of text block. Sharp corners clean interior and solid binding. Slight cock to spine. In a beautiful new facsimile jacket of the first printing.</p> Covici Friede hardcover
FORT904580The Easton Press. Used - Very Good. The Easton Press unknown
JD37112<p>NY Covici Friede 1937 first edition first printing first issue dust jacket. Hardcover. His experimental play novelette with the words "and only moved because the heavy hands were pendula" and with the bullet between the eights on page 88 priced at $2 Goldstone & Payne A7a Morrow 59 one of 2500 copies source for several films and the Broadway production. Owner's 1937 name on front free endpaper jacket moderately chipped else very good.</p> NY, Covici Friede, 1937, first edition, first printing, first issue, dust jacket. Hardcover. hardcover
19378001619NY: Covici-Frede 1937. Rare quad-fold sales brochure for the release of the book "Of Mice and Men" with an order form on the rear of the brochure for all of Steinbeck's books published prior to 1937. Downright rare in this protected condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Published. 6.5" x 12 3/4". Sales Brochure. Covici-Frede Paperback
2169Fine. <p dir="ltr">John Steinbeck. Fletcher Martin illustrator. Of Mice and Men. Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1977. Collector's edition. </p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">Quarto. 165pp. Illustrated by Fletcher Martin. Publisher's brown decorative leather spine and boards lettered and decorated in gilt five raised bands all edges gilt silk moire endleaves ribbon bookmark. </p> . unknown
1937100479New York: Covici-Friede 1937. First edition. Near fine in a price-clipped good or better dustwrapper with some chipping near the bottom of the front flap fold and a large but faint dampstain. An uncommon play adapted by Steinbeck from his own novel. Steinbeck's stage adaptation condenses his novella into a three-act tragedy ideally suited to theatrical presentation. The play's dialogue-driven format strips away narrative contemplation rendering each character's thwarted ambitions through stark unadorned exchanges that intensify the work's central themes: the impossibility of economic independence during the Depression the profound isolation persisting within communal spaces and the brutal incompatibility between human vulnerability and a system demanding complete self-sufficiency. The inexorable march toward Lennie's death demonstrates how certain lives become expendable when they cannot conform to society's demands. Covici-Friede unknown
1937001586New York: Covici-Friede 1937. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first printing of Steinbeck's classic novel. Small 8vo. 168 pp. Light foxing to the top and bottom edges. Tape marks to the front pastedown. Taped to the rear pastedown is a clipping from "The Playgoer" the official publication of the El Capitan Theatre announcing the play and beginning on April 6 1939 ands starring Wallace Ford and Lon Chaney Jr. This is the first issue book with the misplaced dot between the 8's on page 88 and "pendula" on Page 9. The jacket retains the price of $2.00 and the spine is moderately faded less than most copies. Closed tear to the top of the rear panel. A solid very good copy. <br/> <br/> Covici-Friede hardcover
193741290New York : Covici Friede 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover with tan board and titling within an orange square on the front board. Book club edition includes the introduction letter. Has a typo on page 168 "It semed to take George some time." The condition of the book is Very Good binding good; some weakness in the center; little to no exterior damage; little to no interior damage. 186pgs. One of the most challenged books of the 21st century. <br/> <br/> Covici, Friede hardcover
2025049531Suntup Editions 2025. Book. Illus. by James Ransome. New. Hardcover. Signed Copy. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean unread unused copy still in original publisher's shrink wrap. The Artist edition is limited to 500 copies with a dust jacket printed on Hahnemühle Bugra by offset lithography and illustrated by James Ransome. It is a smyth-sewn quarter cloth binding with Bugra Archive sides and a foil blocked cover. It is housed in a cloth covered slipcase with ends in a complimentary color. The edition is printed letterpress from metal type on Mohawk Superfine and is signed by the artist. Suntup Editions Hardcover
1977655490Easton Press 1977. First Thus. Leather Binding. Fine. Fine in full dark brown leather decorated in gilt all edges gilt silk moire endpapers blank Easton Press bookplate mounted on front endpaper. 164pp Series: The 100 Greatest Book Ever Written Collector's Edition. Illustrated by Fletcher Martin. Easton Press unknown
