Chicago: Covici Friede, 1936. First Printing. Hardcover. First printing. Octavo (8" x 5 3/8"); 349pp. Publisher's tangerine-colored cloth, the spine ruled in red and titled in black, the top edge stained red; in the original, completely unrestored pictorial dust jacket, priced at $2.50. Fine (contents very clean and tightly bound;..... more
New York: Viking Press, 1969. First Printing. Hardcover. First Printing. 8vo: 182pp. Publisher's quarter-bound navy-blue cloth spine lettered in silver, turquoise cloth-covered boards, matching turquoise top stain, facsimile manuscript end papers; in pictorial dust jacket priced at $6.50, with correct publication code '1269' on front flap. Fine (probabaly unread) in..... more
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New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing, First Issue, with "and only moved because the heavy hands were pendula," lines 20-21, p. 9, and bullet between the eight's on p. 88, one of only 2500 copies (in subsequent printings, the nine words on p. 9 were removed and..... more
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New York: Viking Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing ("First published by The Viking Press in June 1954" on copyright page), in First Issue dust jacket, with Phillipe Halsman's photo of Steinbeck on back panel and without reviewers' comments). 8vo: [x],273,[1]pp. Publisher's beige cloth, spine and upper cover lettered..... more