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194875361London: William Heinemann 1948. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. blue cloth gilt lettering no dust jacket 97 pp first UK edition owner's inscription on front endpaper covers stained at edges<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Standard shipping no tracking / Priority with tracking / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. William Heinemann hardcover
1948033067London: Heinemann 1948. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 97pp. Blue cloth boards titles in gold on black background on spine and front board. Spine dulled but titles still legible. Pages evenly toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows wear to spine ends and edges. Tape reinforcement within jacket. Dust jacket in mylar. UK first of Steinbeck's slim allegorical novel complete with dust jacket. Heinemann Hardcover
1947005968Viking Press. DJ in archival cover with minor edge wear rubbed. First Edition First Issue dust jacket with Steinbeck photo facing to the left or toward the spine. $2.00 price on the flap. Stated published by the Viking Press in December 1947. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1947. Viking Press hardcover
1947021487New York: The Viking Press 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Orozco Jose Clemente. Printed by the Viking Press in December 1947. Dust jacket has light edge wear. <br/> <br/> The Viking Press hardcover
19470816974New York: Viking. 1947. F First Edition. H Hardcover. Very Good. In brown and blue jacket over brown cloth 8vo. 4 122 1 pages. First book edition of the short novel originally published in The Woman's Home Companion December 1945 under title "The Pearl of the World". Notable for the full-page reproductions of Orozco's drawings. Goldstone & Payne A25a. First state jacket with photo of Steinbeck facing toward spine left. shelfwear rubbing nicking and creasing to jacket extremities tips and corners jacket clipped upper jacket tip with 1 1/2 inch loss Viking hardcover
194862193London: William Heinemann 1948. First UK ed. Spine rubbed and slightly tanned slightly cocked owner blindstamp to ffep lightly tanned central gutters a little strained else clean and tidy. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo. William Heinemann Hardcover
194708771THE PEARL Viking 1947 first edition just about fine in vg dust-wrapper with some slight wear and tear. On this dust-wrapper Steinbeck is looking towards the fore edge. Viking Press unknown
1994AA153Marina Del Rey: Privately Printed 1994. Final Draft. Fine. Thomas Myles Steinbeck 1944 â€" 2016 was a screenwriter photographer and journalist He published numerous works of fiction including short stories and novels He was the elder son of American novelist John Steinbeck<br /> This is a signed and inscribed "To the 'Queen of the Nile' Thomas S We peel grapes" It is a typescript draft of a screenplay of one of his father's better known books The Pearl and dated "Final Draft Polish Corrected 9/24/94"<br /> It is comprised of looseleaf pages between vinyl cover pages held by common office fasteners and is in excellent condition with no other marks or damage<br /> It was acquired in an auction of items from the estate of John and Elaine Steinbeck so this copy was owned by John Steinbeck's third wife Elaine who died in 2003 The estate auction tag is shown in the photo <br /> <br /> . Privately Printed unknown
1932017058Covici-Friede 1932. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In a Near Fine Plus Jacket Fourth Issue In The Light Beige Jacket. Very Scarce Especially In This Condition. Gorgeous Copy Of the Author's Second Book. Covici-Friede Hardcover
1932934T49New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932. First edition. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5". None. The first edition of Steinbeck's second published work. First edition. Brewer Warren & Putnam printed 2500 sets of sheets of which 1650 copies were bound and about 650 copies sold. The remainder were sold to Robert O. Ballou in 1932. The author's second published work. An episodic short story cycle composed of ten self-contained but related stories set in the Corral de Tierra of the Salinas Valley of California. It is said to "rival The Long Valley 1938 as Steinbeck's major achievement in short fiction". Written by John Ernst Steinbeck an American writer who was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the original green cloth binding. Externally sound with light bumping and wear to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges. Light loss to the head of the spine and board tips with small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. A very small closed tear to the edge of page 201/202 with the odd page remaining unopened. Good Brewer, Warren & Putnam hardcover
1946019588Cleveland: The World Publishing Co 1946. Nice copy in its first printing thus. Dark green boards with white lettering and blue stamping has one lightly bumped tip and small compression at base of spine. Unmarked tight and square. Clean. Text is tanned but supple. Price intact jacket has neat pencilled 49 which duplicates price on jacket on front flap top. Jacket neatly designed and attractive and without issue but for tanning on spine which is to be expected by this publisher in 1946. In mylar. . First Thus. Hardccover. Very Good Plus to Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The World Publishing Co
1933014425London: The Quality Press 1933. First edition. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Stated "Second Impression . 1941" after1st UK edition of 1933 which was published by Philip Allan. Yellow cloth very good no jacket. A thick book. Later reprints by the Quality Press with printed on wartime paper and were much thinner. <br/> <br/> The Quality Press hardcover
1933014401London: Philip Allan 1933. First edition. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Scarce 1st UK edition. Former owner name on endpaper name on endpaper pages naturally tanned internally very good. Spine has had expertly repaired with original spine laid on. Tanning and light stains to spine This was the first of Steinbeck's books to be published in the UK and the best of his early book. It received critical acclaim in the U.S. but did not sell well until after his later success. <br/> <br/> Philip Allan hardcover
1932014404<p>New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam / Robert O. Ballou 1932. First edition. . Hardcover. Very good book with tipped in dust jacket parts clipped blurb from rear panel and front flap with Steinbeck portrait. First edition third issue using the original Brewer sheets with Ballou title page and Ballou also at the foot of the spine. First edition second issue copies with Ballou title page and Brewer on the spine cloth are virtually non-existent likely only a handful of copies. Publisher's name appears as Robert Ballou on the spine with the first letters slightly larger. On some copies letters are all the same size. Former owner name on pastedown endpaper with parts of the dust jacket tipped in loosely. <br /><br /></p> Brewer, Warren & Putnam / Robert O. Ballou hardcover
193219229New York: Robert O. Ballou 1932. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. <p>New York: Robert O. Ballou 1932. <br /> <br /> FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING THIRD STATE<br /> with ROBERT O. BALLOU IMPRINT. Ballou purchased 750 copies of the sheets from Brewer to sell under his own imprint. </p> <br /> <p>Fair. Rear hinge a bit cracked else tight binding; some splitting to cloth along spine and rear cover; a few smudges and light foxing to pages; foxing to endpapers; covers worn; fading and scuffing; no jacket. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.<br /> </p> . New York: Robert O. Ballou hardcover
1938003610New York: Modern Age Books 1938. Book. Fine. Printed Wraps. 3rd Edition. Printed Wraps softcover with dustjacket. Unabridged Edition with 25c price. 1938 stated printing. Pages lightly browned due to cheap paper used just before WW11. Very scarce in this condition especially with the dustjacket. Dustjacket has minor splitting at the folds. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. Modern Age Books Paperback
19322025-R238New York: Covici Friede Publishers 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fourth issue with tipped in Covici Friede title page in a clipped jacket. Wear to edges of jacket with loss at head of spine. Prior owner's initials and date of purchase 1936-10-1 in heavy pencil on flyleaf. Boards protected by jacket slight toning to pages label from the San Francisco booksellers Gelber Lilienthal Inc. vi 294pp. Covici Friede Publishers hardcover