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1948003431Cleveland: The World Publishing Company 1948. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. First Forum Books Edition. First Printing April 1948 stated on the copyright page. This is also the first photoplay edition with scenes from the movie starring Robert Mitchum Myrna Loy and Louis Calhern on the dustjacket with the $1.00 price present. Book is bound in brown cloth. Scarce in this condition. Contains all the stories originally published in "The Long Valley" 1938. 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
1990B68500Shelton CT: The First Edition Library 1990. Hardcover. Fine. Blue stamped and plate mounted beige cloth boards in slipcase octavo illustrated in color with prospectus laid in. Book has handsome boards and tight binding text clean and unmarked. Slipcase has faint sun near mouth. The First Edition Library hardcover
19374795New York: Covici Friedi Publishers 1937. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. One of 699 signed copies this one unnumbered. A Fine copy of the book in excellent condition externally and internally. Slight bowing to front board but in all bright clean and unmarked. In a Near Fine slipcase with just a hint of shelfwear. Lacking the original glassine.<br /> <br /> A coming of age tale as only Steinbeck can tell it. Mischievous and a little destructive Jody Tiflin takes his first step into adulthood when his father Carl gives him an important gift: his first horse to raise up a red pony that Jody names Galiban. Bonding and growing together Jody takes the responsibility of the red pony seriously; he cares for him daily ground trains him gets him into bridle and saddle and excitedly anticipates the day when he'll finally be able to ride Galiban. But before that can happen tragedy strikes. In an accident no one could have predicted Jody loses Galiban learns about the pain of loss and realizes the fallibility of the men who have trained him. An unforgettable story. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Covici Friedi Publishers unknown
194518858The Viking Press: NY 1945. 1945. First Edition; First Printing. Fine. Fine stated first illustrated edition. Attractive illustrated period. bookplate on half title page. Attractive book with original slipcase which. only has minor wear light soil. A nice collector's copy. A scarce Bomc. book-divident card has been laid inside; it states: "It is a great pleasure. to send you the accompanying volume as a book-dividend to which you are. entitled by reason of your recent purchases. " Note this is the same as. the first trade edition in all respects it does not have a club. blindstamp. THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS. A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS. NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC . The Viking Press: NY 1945 unknown
1945140947526New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Illustrated Edition. Very Good. First illustrated edition. Association copy signed by John Steinbeck on the half-title page and inscribed "with many thanks" to Peter Kriendler owner of the 21 Club in New York. Bookplate of Jeanette and Peter Kriendler to front pastedown. <p>131 1 pp. Bound in publisher's gray-brown cloth boards stamped in slate blue gilt lettering to spine color pictorial onlay to front board. All edges stained blue color pictorial endpapers ivory laid paper. Very Good with light rubbing and toning to covers split to upper front hinge light toning and soft ripple throughout. In the original slipcase plain gray paper with color pictorial onlay lightly soiled and toned and split at upper edge. Goldstone-Payne A9.c unlisted third variant printed by Kipe Offset Process Company and bound by H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company. <p>The 21 Club opened in Manhattan in 1930 as a speakeasy. Patrick Kriendler the brother of one of the two founders became a partner in 1938 after working at the club for most of the previous decade. Steinbeck had a favorite table there and enjoyed Kriendler's legendary customer service. One recent record of the club states that it 'featured sliding doors chutes collapsing shelves and hidden storage areas designed to hide alcohol from law-enforcement officials. Over the years the 21 Club began to attract an elite clientele from the worlds of business entertainment the arts sports and politics. The restaurant was known for its strict code of discipline no staff member was allowed to call a customer by his first name as well as its extravagant expensive menu grouse was served for lunch the day after the shooting season opened in Scotland. The Viking Press unknown
1937140947643New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1937. Limited First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. #594 of limited 699 copies signed by John Steinbeck. 81 1 pp. Bound in publisher's beige cloth boards with intersectional gray rules and red pony center with spine lettered in red. Near Fine with fading to lettering at spine and trace toning to contents. In a Near Fine glassine jacket though likely not the original. In publisher's tan slipcase with correct limitation number penned on spine worn at the extremities and toned. A handsome limited edition of Steinbeck's novella published just before his best known work The Grapes of Wrath. Goldstone & Payne A9a. Covici Friede Publishers unknown
1945A50645New York NY: Viking Press. Very Good. 1945. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; Laid in is the BOMC book dividend card making this a Book club edition. This copy has the Variant 2 information with The Rogers-Kellogg-Stillson Inc notation on the copyright page. This book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This copy includes the slipcase which is in Very Good condition. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The slipcase is in generally clean condition but has tidemarking / foxing to the bottom front corner and along with front edge. The slipcase also has spots of ground-in dirt and foxing. The top front corner edges of the slipcase gave some bumping and rubbing. "The Red Pony is an episodic novella written by American writer John Steinbeck in 1933. The first three chapters were published in magazines from 19331936 and the full book was published in 1937 by Covici Friede. The stories in the book are tales of a boy named Jody Tiflin. The book has four different stories about Jody and his life on his father's California ranch. Other main characters include Carl Tiflin - Jody's father; Billy Buck - an expert in horses and a working hand on the ranch; Mrs. Tiflin - Jody's mother; Jody's grandfather - Mrs. Tiflin's father who has a history of crossing the Oregon Trail and enjoys telling stories about his experiences; and Gitano - an old man who wishes to die at the Tiflin ranch." from Wikipedia . Viking Press hardcover
19457984New York: The Viking Press 1945. Hardcover 131 pages. Near fine / slip case good. Dennis Wesley. First printing of Viking Press illustrated edition. Minor wear and soiling to cardboard slipcase. Corners rubbed top edge frayed. Age toning to illustration panel. Light wear to cloth boards corners slightly frayed. All text block edges dyed blue. Pages crisp and clean with vibrant color illustrations. The Viking Press hardcover
1945059267New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Slipcase. Gray Cloth Spine Gilt Illustrated Cover Label All Edges Stained Blue. In Slipcase With Illustrated Cover Label. Stated First Printing 1945 Printed By Reese-Wilkinson Bound By H. Wolff. A Near Fine Copy In The Illustrated Slipcase With Some Wear At Corners And Heavy Wear At Top Of Open End. Bookplate Pencilled Name Erased. <br/> <br/> The Viking Press hardcover
1945150085New York: The Viking Press 1945. Signed limited first edition of Steinbeck's classic novel one of 699 copies. Octavo original cloth pictorial endpapers with illustrations by Wesley Dennis. Fine in the rare original slipcase. An exceptional example. The three interconnected stories in this volume a fourth was added in the 1945 edition won praise on publication as "pure gold… all three of these stories have more depth intensity and variety than one could possibly anticipate" New York Times Book Review. To biographer Jackson Benson they "act as a moral fulcrum… These stories with their child observer examine the nature of life and of death and the relationship of the individual to the whole" True Adventures 288. The Viking Press hardcover
196525080141965. softcover. very good. Rare Russian edition in English. Very good condition slight wear to spine minor soiling. unknown
194523124NY: Viking Press 1945. First illustrated edition. Hardcover. A fine copy entirely clean and unworn and with no previous owner marking in very good slipcase. Original gray cloth with pictorial paper inset on front cover octavo 7 x 9.5 inches 131pp. Color illustrations by Wesley Dennis. <br/><br/>A superb copy of this classic tale. Viking Press hardcover
194532459NY: Viking. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. First illustrated edition in slipcase. Near fine with bookplate and two small flaws to ffep. The slipcase is worn with tape repairs and few stains. Laid in is the publisher's color pamphlet stating that this book was a "Book Dividend" for September and October from the Book-of-the-Month club. Unusual with pamphlet. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Viking hardcover
1994Q-0140187391Penguin Classics 1994-10-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
1993Q-0140177361Penguin Books 1993-02-01. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Books paperback
1989Q-0670829900Viking Juvenile 1989-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Viking Juvenile hardcover
1993Q-081241652xPerfection Learning 1993-02-01. Library Binding. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Perfection Learning unknown
194513733NY: Viking Press 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Dennis Wesley. 6.63"x9.5" 131 pps. First illustrated edition. Khaki boards w/paste-down on a red pony on front inside dk green frame. Dk. green title block on spine with gilt letters. Herd of horses running scene in color as paste downs. This edition is produced in full compliance with all war production board conservation orders. The water-color illustrations are reproduced by four-color process offset lithography. Set in monotype Emerson and Bernhard modern types by Westcott & Thomson. Printed in USA by Zeese-Wilkinson Company and bound by H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company. Spine straight binding tight. Few soil spots to boards. Few marks throughout. Not x-library. No slip-case. Originally published in 1933 by Pascal Covici. Written at a time of profound anxiety caused by the illness of his mother Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence. Unlike most coming-of-age stories the cycle does not end with a hero "matured" by circumstances. As John Seelye writes in his introduction reversing common interpretations The Red Pony is imbued with a sense of loss. Jody's encounters with birth and death express a common theme in Steinbeck's fiction: They are parts of the ongoing process of life "resolving" nothing. The Red Pony was central not only to Steinbeck's emergence as a major American novelist but to the shaping of a distinctly.Source: Publisher. Viking Press hardcover
1945008981NY: Viking. First edition first illustrated edition. Variant 2 printed by Rogers-Kellogg-Stillson bound by Kingsport Press Goldstone & Payne. Published without dust jacket. Published NY: Viking 1945 first printing. 8vo. 131pp. with color illustrations by Wesley Dennis. Gray cloth with gilt spine titles set in dark blue block blue cover panels with pictorial inset of pony all edges tinted dark blue illustrated endpapers. Small splash stain on front edge of front cover name in small hand on front fly leaf else fine. A brilliant copy. Lacking the slip case. . Near Fine. Hard. 1st. 1945. Viking unknown
1945016092New York: The Viking Press 1945. First illustrated edition. Clean bright and fresh. Tight and square with no markings. Blue slipcase with Illustrated label with horse in corral has wear and partially separated. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket In slipcase. Illus. by Wesley Dennis. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Viking Press Hardcover
1948mon0003196036Bantam Books 1948T. paperback. Good. . First edition mass market printing.rn Bantam Books paperback
19450010946New York: The Viking Press 1945. 1945 HARDCOVER WITH SLIPCASE. This is the FIRST ILLUSTRATED U.S. EDITION WITH SLIPCASE FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1945. Published the same day in Canada. Beautifully illustrated in watercolors by Wesley Dennis. Blue/tan illustrated hardcover blue tint all edges illustrated endpapers 131 pages plus one page listing Steinbeck's books at end. This edition contains all four portions of the story - The Gift The Great Mountains The Promise and The Leader of the People. Brown slipcase with full-color illustrated watercolor paper slip affixed to slipcase. Condition of hardcover: Small stain on verso of one illustration else overall Fine. Text is clean clear and very readable. Illustrations are clean clear and vivid. Slipcase: Tiny rubbed mark below paper slip minor wear at opening from slipping book in and out faint age toning at extremities else overall Very Good Plus from our experience most slipcases for this book are cracked and torn but this one is in amazingly very good plus condition. Here is a beautiful story about a young boy's coming of age and his initiation into manhood. The four short stories focus on Jody Tiflin who lives on a ranch in California along with his family. It's about growing learning and insights as Jody grows to become a young man. Steinbeck also wrote the script for the film version of the book. Very collectible. Note: We are a well-established well-respected ethical book dealer in business since 1991. We describe the condition of our books thoroughly and honestly so you'll know exactly what you will be receiving when you order. We ship promptly. . Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Wesley Dennis. The Viking Press Hardcover
1945142793New York: Viking 1945. 1st edition / 1st printing. Nice copy. octavo. hardback in original cloth 131pp. col. & b/w pls. maps appends. bibliog. index With fine illustrations & end papers by Wesley Dennis. No slip-case but a very nice bright copy with sharp corners Viking hardcover
1945435566New York: Viking 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine. First illustrated edition. Light wear to the spine ends modest toning to the board edges an about near fine copy lacking the slipcase. Viking hardcover
194569663New York:: The Viking Press 1945. First illustrated edition; variant 2 with the Kingsport Press imprint. publisher's cloth boards in publisher's slipcase. An old price is faintly visible at the upper corner of the front pastedown; otherwise fine in a very near fine slipcase. . Large 8vo. With Illustrations by Wesley Dennis. The Viking Press, hardcover
