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We buy and sell old books, vintage books, collectible books, rare books, first edition books, and related ephemera. We maintain several specialties. Among them are American fiction first editions from c.1900 to the present. Within that general field, we have heavy emphasis in John Steinbeck and Steinbeckiana. Thus, we buy and sell Steinbeck primary first editions in dust jackets, signed/limited editions, his appearances in anthologies, his periodical appearances, books and periodicals about Steinbeck, film and theatre memorabilia, bibliographies, and miscellaneous items.
We also specialize in these same categories for these authors -- Jack London, Wallace Stegner, and Stephen King. Other specialties include Western Americana, books on California and the West, Photography books, books on Japan, China, and the Orient, and Armed Services Editions. The latter are vintage paperbacks issued to American GIs from 1943 to 1947. They are comprised of mysteries, Westerns, science fiction and fantasy, mainstream fiction, historical novels, science, poetry, adventure stories, and more.
Within our field of modern first editions, we also sell related film memorabilia Thus, we sell film posters, lobby card sets, pressbooks, stills, scripts, etc. for films made from the works of authors we carry such as John Steinbeck, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, Zane Grey, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Stephen King, Edward Abbey, Anne Rice, and many others.
Steinbeck, John. Cup of Gold. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1929, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. First issue of Author's First Book, a historical novel of the purple prose school about the life of Sir Henry Morgan, pirate, this is the first issue with the top edge stained blue and with an extra blank leaf at the end, Goldstone & Payne A1a, Morrow 1, a very scarce book, especially with the garish dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine, even Steinbeck himself did not own a copy of this book, the inscription by Steinbeck on the copy at San Jose State University reads, "I wish I had a copy of this edition--John Steinbeck," this is one of only 1,537 copies actually bound, even better, this is an Author Presentation Copy and very probably the last of the close family copies to come to the marketplace being Inscribed to his older sister, Elizabeth Ainsworth ("For my sister/Beth whom/I love/very much/John Steinbeck"), she has also signed the book, nearly all the other close family copies are now in institutions. As one might expect of a family copy, this book was well read by his sister and her family, while far from pristine, it is nevertheless an outstandingly collectible copy of the first order, good. JD6522
[Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. The Pearl. RKO, 1948, first edition. A complete set of this film based on John Steinbeck's classic novella, the film starred Pedro Armendariz and Maria Elena Marques, good use of Steinbeck's name on the title card and all the scene cards, Steinbeck is credited on the title card with writing the screenplay (along with director Emilio Fernandez and Jack Wagner), none of these posters were in the Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne E15, not recorded by Morrow, any of these posters are scarce, but a complete set is extremely scarce as well as desirable. Minor use. 
[John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John.Their Blood Is Strong. San Francisco, Simon J. Lubin Society of California, April 1938, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This true first edition, sold originally at 25 cents, is one of the most elusive of Steinbeck's first editions, with the famous front cover photo by Dorthea Lange of the mother suckling her child, the book was a precursor to Steineck's publishing his masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath, Goldstone & Payne A10a, Morrow 86. A very good copy.
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| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck John. The Grapes of Wrath. n.p., 20th Century-Fox, 1940, first edition. A complete set of 11X14-inch color lobby card posters for the original release of this classic story and classic film which was directed by the famed John Ford and which starred Henra Fonda as Tom Joad, Jane Darwell as Ma Joad, and John Carradine as Casy, the set also includes its original printed housing envelope which is probably even more scarce than the posters, the fragile housing envelope is plain brown and is printed with the film title, Steinbeck's name, Fonda's name, etc. none of these posters were in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne E6, not recorded by Morrow, extremely scarce, especially as a complete set and with the housing envelope. While there are pin holes in some corners from theatre mounting, as usual, these posters are uniformly clean, bright, and fine. JD28137 |  $7,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, Elaine and Wallsten, Robert (editors). Steinbeck: A Life in Letters. NY, Viking, 1975, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy, an uncorrected, unrevised proof of this wonderful book that will make you laugh and make you cry while providing a biography of a literary giant via his constant letter writing, the editors provide reference commentary that makes for a smooth transition between the letters, photo-copied sheets are pasted-in over some pages, as usual, showing that changes in the book were being made along its way to becoming a trade edition for sale, this state not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus. JD30152 | $450.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, Elaine and Wallsten, Robert (editors). Steinbeck: A Life in Letters. NY, Viking, 1975, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. A wonderful biography of this Nobel Prize-winning author through the multitude of letters he wrote, this copy is Inscribed by Elaine Steinbeck in the year of publication, the book also makes for an excellent reference. Absolutely fine. JD35712 | $150.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John IV. In Touch. NY, Knopf, 1969, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book in which he recalls his time in Vietnam and subsequent adventures (or misadventures) back home, youngest son of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, Review Copy with publisher's review slip showing publication date as February 26, 1969, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, Morrow 695. A few check marks in margins not affecting text, else fine. JD28283 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. A Letter From John Steinbeck Explaining Why He Could Not Write An Introduction For This Book. n.p. (NY), Random House, 1964, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A separate printing of this non-introduction that was in fact used as an introduction to a book by Ted Patrick entitled The Thinking Dog's Man, Steinbeck and Patrick were well-acquainted as he was the editor of "Holiday" magazine which often published Steinbeck, this promotional item a collection stopper, it is extremely scarce and seldom comes on the market, Goldstone & Payne A41a, Morrow 270. Vertical crease throughout, else fine. JD29436 | $2,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. A Letter on Criticism. Denver, Colorado Quarterly, Autumn 1955, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 218-219, very interesting from a literary standpoint, this item wasn't in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, cited as Goldstone & Payne C122 only via a photo-copy, not recorded by Morrow, scarce. Fine. JD29196 | $65.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. A Medal for Benny. Paramount, 1945, first edition. An original-release color film poster for the film that starred Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Cordova, and J. Carrol Naish, the poster measures 14X36 inches and is dominated by Lamour's beautiful visage, the poster also credits John Steinbeck and his boyhood friend Jack Wagner upon whose story this film was based, this item wasn't in the Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne E13, not recorded by Morrow. Folded, as usual. JD5095 | $200.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. A Model T Named "It". Detroit, Ford Times, July 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 34-39, Goldstone & Payne C95, not recorded by Morrow, scarce. Fine. JD29158 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. A Model T Named "It". Detroit, Ford Times, July 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 34-39, this was bookseller Paul North's copy with a letter from Hal Butler, Managing Editor of "Ford Times," laid in loosely explaining why there were two issues of this periodical, one without the covering wrapper which went to groups that believed that the regular cover was too "commercial," this issue without the "regular" cover has a Ford dealer's stamp on the back cover, indicating that Ford dealers received the more "non-commercial" version, Goldstone & Payne C95, not recorded by Morrow, scarce. Fine. JD29159 | $60.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. A Plea to Teachers. NY, Saturday Review, April 30, 1955, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Page 24, Goldstone & Payne C117, not recorded by Morrow. Very good. JD29187 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. A President--Not A Candidate. n.p. (NY), Universal American Corp., n.d. (1964), first edition. This hardcover was issued without a dust jacket, it is the 1964 Democratic National Convention book, Steinbeck's article appears on pages 94-97, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, the convention nominated Lyndon Baines Johnson and Hubert Humphrey as President and Vice President, laid in loosely is the 1964 Democratic Convention program, this copy presented with the compliments of George A. Fuller Company. The usual soiling to white cloth covers, else fine. JD29701 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. A Snake of One's Own. Toronto, New Advance, April 1941, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 5-10, condensed from Esquire, this publication was aimed at Canadian youth, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, scarce. Bright, clean very good plus. JD29109 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. A Writer's Credo. Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, March 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Page 130, text from East of Eden, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Slight chipping to bottom of spine, else fine. JD29166 | $20.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Always Something to Do in Salinas. Bradenton, Opuscula Press, 1986, first edition. This slim hardcover bound with dark brown buckram spine, brown boards, and tan title label was issued without dust jacket, it is the first separate printing of this article which first appeared in the June 1955 issue of "Holiday," includes frontispiece photo portrait of Steinbeck by Paul Farber, this is No. 50 of 300 numbered copies, although not called for, this copy Inscribed by the book's publisher, Robert F. Hanson, to this bookseller, laid in loosely is a lengthy typed letter signed from Hanson. Fine, unread. JD30202 | $250.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. America and the Americans. Boston, Saturday Evening Post, July-August 1976, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Page 114, text reprinted from the July 2, 1966 Saturday Evening Post, this is its Bicentennial issue, as such it includes a pull-out portfolio of Norman Rockwell illustrations as well as contributions by Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Charles Lindbergh, Thomas Edison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, etc. Very good. JD29286 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Autograph Letter Signed. Pacific Grove, John Steinbeck, December 8, 1948, first edition. This is a letter to Ed Ricketts Jr. on Steinbeck's familiar ruled yellow paper carrying his Pacific Grove stamped address, a total of 13 lines, Steinbeck is looking for the "circulating pump we used to use on the pans of animals?" Steinbeck is looking to set up a small aquarium in his house and would like to use the pump rather than buying another as "they are quite expensive," he invites the famed marine biologist's son to visit and says, "Not much changes here. I'm trying to get some work done and maybe I'm succeeding. I don't know yet.". Folded, else very good. JD36677 | $3,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Autograph Letter Signed. n.p., John Steinbeck, December 13, 1950, first edition. The letter is to Ed Ricketts, Jr., the son of his best friend, famed marine biologist Ed Ricketts who died in a car crash two years previously, Steinbeck writes, "I think you recently received a letter from my publisher. It is very important that you answer it as soon as possible. I think your father would like to have you do this. You will remember that I did what I could while I could. Please do hurry along a reply. I shall be greatly inconvenienced if you do not. Sincerely, John. P. S. I had a long letter from Toni (the former wife of the elder Ricketts) recently. She sent a picture of her baby. Have you any (?) yet? J.," it is likely that the letter from Steinbeck's publisher had to do with the planned Log From the Sea of Cortez that Viking published in 1951. Folded, else very good. JD36678 | $4,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Bombs Away. NY, Skyways, September 1943, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 37-46, 80, this includes excerpts from Steinbeck's book of the same title, including the John Swope photo illustrations, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Nearly fine. JD29120 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Books Make the Perfect Gift. n.p. , n.p., n.d. (c.1965), first edition. A generic bookmark on one side (Books Make the Perfect Gift) with a lengthy quote from Steinbeck on the verso, to wit: "And it is wonderful that even today with all the competition of records, of radio, of television, of motion pictures, the book has kept its precious character. A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned, the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive....People...automatically believe in books. This is strange but it is so. Messages come from behind the controlled and censored areas of the world and they do not ask for radios, for papers and pamphlets. They invariably ask for books. They believe book when they believe nothing else.". Fine. JD30656 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Breakfast. Petaluma, Anchor & Acorn Press, 1990, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. With its illustrated dust jacket, first separate printing of this superb short story, No. 83 of 100 numbered copies illustrated with hand-colored wood engravings and Signed by the illustrator, Colleen Dwire Weaver, including a wood engraving of a young John Steinbeck writing, this illustration lies within a double-spread title page and was created by Weaver from photos of Steinbeck by Sonya Noskowiak and Robert Capa, it also includes an Afterword by Weaver who produced this fine press item as part of an intership and who later received permission from Elaine Steinbeck to sell her remaining copies (most were given away to her family and friends), very scarce. Fine. JD30661 | $400.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. Burning Bright Opera In Three Acts. Long Island City, Notevole Music Publishing, 1993, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Libretto and music by Frank Lewin, based on Steinbeck's play/novelette. Fine. JD28241 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Burning Bright. NY, Viking, 1950, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Third and last of his play/novelette experiments and easily the least accomplished and least understood, Steinbeck provides his own introduction to this play in story form, Goldstone & Payne A29a, Morrow 206. Fine in a very nearly fine jacket. JD30047 | $250.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Burning Bright. London, Heinemann, 1951, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Jacket designed by Biro, Steinbeck provides his own foreword to this third of his play/novelette experiments, Goldstone & Payne A29b, Morrow 207. A rather cheaply produced book, thus nearly fine in a clipped jacket with some wear at extremities and some tape reinforcements to the verso. JD30048 | $95.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. "Coronet", June 1945, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. A 10,000-word condensation, 145-161, Goldstone & Payne C58, not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus. JD2393 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. NY, Bantam Books, 1947, fifth printing, wrappers. Softcover. With its very scarce original dust jacket as illustrated by Ben Stahl, existence of the dust jacket (an experiment, almost always on a fourth or fifth printing) is not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, highly prized by paperback collectors. Minor wear, else near fine, especially scarce in this condition. JD6467 | $150.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. NY, "Coronet", June 1945, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. A 10,000-word condensation, 145-161, Goldstone & Payne C58, not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus. JD29131 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. n.p. (NY), n.p. (The Viking Press), n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy, an uncorrected galley proof, bound in plain, unprinted tannish wrappers, printed on rectos only, a very scarce advanced state of this minor, or not so minor, Steinbeck masterpiece whose themes of death and loneliness are masked by its surface layer of humor, all the more rare in that this is an Author Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Steinbeck to the best man at his second marriage, Howard O. Hunter, who was the Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissioner in the early 1940s under the FDR administration, Steinbeck and his second wife, Gwen Conger, were married March 29, 1943, just 11 days after receiving his final divorce decree from his first wife, Carol, Steinbeck has Inscribed the first preliminary as follows, "For Howard/who really/belongs in/Cannery Row/John Steinbeck/last night in New York 1944," this galley lacks all the preliminaries found in the 1945 published version such as half titles, title page, copyright page, dedication page, etc., although not specifically cited in Goldstone & Payne, there is a notation under G&P A22a that "a copy of the unrevised galley proofs is in the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas," see Morrow 172 (that copy with a yellow label on front giving publication date and price that is not on this copy--the Morrow copy was not signed or inscribed), now housed in a beautiful custom clamshell case with leather spine, laid in loosely is a letter of provenance from Ellen Leonard who was given this proof by Hunter's wife, Edna. This was bound for in-house use by Viking and not for sale, thus it was never meant to be in great condition even when new, spine ends are chipped, there is offsetting from printed pages onto the previous verso, some pages are becoming dis-bound. JD29396 | $35,000.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. NY, Bantam Books, 1947, fifth printing, wrappers. Softcover. With its very scarce original dust jacket as illustrated by Ben Stahl, existence of the dust jacket (an experiment, almost always on a fourth or fifth printing) is not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, highly prized by paperback collectors. Aged pages, else nearly fine in a very good plus jacket. JD30016 | $150.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. NY, Bantam Books, 1947, fifth printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Jacket illustrated by Ben Stahl, existence of the jacket (an experiment) is not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, highly prized by paperback collectors. Minor wear and age, else nearly fine. JD30634 | $200.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. Hollywood, MGM, 1982, first edition. An original-release color film poster, 27X41 inches, based on both Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, the film starred Debra Winger and Nick Nolte. Folded as usual. JD35549 | $100.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-5 in this important series, a novel by Steinbeck that is a minor (or not so minor) masterpiece which disguises its themes of death and loneliness with a layer of humor, Goldstone & Payne A22f, not recorded by Morrow, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Some general wear and a reading crease, else very good. JD36852 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. NY, Bantam Books, 1947, fifth printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Jacket illustrated by Ben Stahl, existence of the jacket (an experiment) is not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, highly prized by paperback collectors. Very good. JD36892 | $100.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Chapter Thirty-four From the Novel East of Eden. Bronxville, privately printed, 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. First separate printing of this chapter from Steinbeck's big, rambling flawed masterpiece, Steinbeck writes beautifully how there is only one story -- the struggle between good and evil, one of 125 copies printed on the hand-press by Valenti Angelo, bound in limp buff wrappers, this is variant 2 with the title page containing a red and black rectangular design of leafy and bare branches between the title and "PRIVATELY PRINTED 1952" with the limitation notice on page 10 (although the pages are unnumbered), the variants are believed to be trial copies, no priority has been determined, Goldstone & Payne A32d, not recorded by Morrow, this was John DePol's copy with his spare bookplate, DePol (1913-2004) was an artist and one of America's foremost printmakers and wood engravers, his prints can be found in the permanent collections of many libraries and museums, he contributed to publications by the Allen Press, Red Ozier Press, Stone House Press, and others, The Book Club of California recently produced a major work on him (John DePol A Catalogue Raisonne of His Graphic Work 1935-1998). The usual age-toning, else fine. JD29453 | $3,000.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Circus. NY, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus Magazine, 1954, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 6-7, this is the lead article, preceded by a giant photo of Steinbeck by Philippe Halsman (the only photographer who could make Steinbeck look handsome), this item wasn't in the Adrian Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne C112, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29181 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Circus. Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus Magazine, 1963, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 7, 31, this is the lead article, reprinted from the 1954 issue, this item wasn't in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, cited as Goldstone & Payne C183 by a photo-copy from Preston Beyer, Morrow 403. Fine. JD29252 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Coming, Aphrodite! And Other Stories. NY, Avon, n.d. (1955), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 683, a paperback original, Willa Cather offers the title story with other contributions by Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others, including John Steinbeck who offers Johnny Bear, 54-68, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B84, not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus. JD29583 | $10.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. Covici Friede Books Fall 1937. NY, Covici Friede, 1937, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A catalogue of its fall 1937 books which lists the signed/limited edition of John Steinbeck's The Red Pony, 9-10, then available for $10, as well as the play version of his Of Mice and Men, 25, then available for $2, it also offers works by Frank Waters, Ben Hecht, E. E. Cummings, and others, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, or Morrow. A few extraneous pencil marks and some pencil notes, else nearly fine. JD6428 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Cup of Gold. NY, Bantam Books, Dec. 1953, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1184, Author's First Book, front cover illustration by Ava Morgan, Goldstone & Payne A1l, Morrow 11. Near fine. JD4782 | $10.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. Cup of Gold. n.p. (NY), "Monthly Bulletin for Members of the Doubleday One Dollar Book Club", June 1938, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. It reviews Cup of Gold from the front cover through Page 3, it also includes a biography of Steinbeck and a photo of him, Page 4, plus it prints a section of a very interesting article that quotes Steinbeck talking about his critics and his book, Page 5, Goldstone & Payne (G&P) makes no mention of this Doubleday $1 edition, nor does Morrow, this periodical is not recorded by G&P or Morrow. Very good plus. JD30456 | $85.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Cup of Gold. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1929, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, first issue with top edge stained and with the final black leaf present, with the rare colorful pirate dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine, one of only 1,537 copies, published when Steinbeck was 27 years old and just two weeks before the 1929 stock market crash, a historical novel about the pirate Henry Morgan rendered in a purple prose manner quite unlike his realistic descriptive storytelling that followed, Goldstone & Payne A1a, Morrow 1. Very good book in a jacket with the usual spine color fade with chipping to top and bottom of spine, jacket with internal tape reinforcement. JD30875 | $12,500.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Steinbeck, John. Cup of Gold. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 750 in this important series, Author's First Book, "a life of Sir Henry Morgan, buccaneer with occasional references to history," preface by Lewis Gannett, Goldstone & Payne A1j, Morrow 9, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus. JD34456 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Discovering the People of Paris. Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, March 1957, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 197-198, text condensed from "Holiday," Goldstone & Payne C145, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29214 | $15.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. East of Eden. Burbank, Warner Home Video, 1982, first edition. This is a VHS video cassette of the 1955 film version of East of Eden that starred James Dean in his first starring film role, directed by Elia Kazan, the film was adapted from Steinbeck's 1952 novel, it also starred Raymond Massey and Julie Harris. Fine. JD28341 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Edith McGillcuddy. London, Lilliput, April 1943, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 285-290, illustrated, this British publication isn't recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, scarce. Very good. JD29115 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Fascinating Historical Improbable Events. n.p. (Sag Harbor), 1966 Journal/Old Whalers Festival and First International Whaling Competition, 1966, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Steinbeck's piece appears pages 4-5 with a photo of him attributed to Motor Boating Magazine, Steinbeck was the festival's honorary chairman, he is also credited with two others for Fireworks, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, Morrow, or Holmes. Very good. JD36775 | $200.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Flight. Logan, Perfection Form, 1979, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. First separate printing of this classic Steinbeck short story, text from The Portable Steinbeck, a 46-page teaching booklet designed for student reading with study material and questions at the end, not recorded by Morrow, scarce. Fine, unread. JD30195 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Fourteen Great Stories from The Long Valley. NY, Avon Book Company, 1947, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 132, this is the correct first printing with Avon 130 through 133 listed as "Titles Just Issued" on the inside rear wrapper, this is one of the most scarce Steinbeck mass market paperbacks, it includes such great and much anthologized short stories as The Chrysanthemums, Flight, The Harness, The Raid, The Snake, Johnny Bear, The Vigilante, The Red Pony, and others, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, Morrow 99. Very good plus. JD29945 | $40.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Good Guy--Bad Guy. London, Punch, September 22, 1954, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 375-378, Goldstone & Payne C104, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29174 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. His Father. "Reader's Digest", September 1949, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 19-21, Goldstone & Payne C75, not recorded by Morrow, this is an original story, not a reprint, that grew out of Steinbeck's experiences as a father of two boys that lived with their mother, but not with him, this story remained uncollected until 1986. Very good. JD6423 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. His Father. Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, September 1949, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 19-21, this story remained uncollected until 1986, Goldstone & Payne C75, not recorded by Morrow. Near fine. JD29144 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. If You Want To Be A Writer... NY, Writer's Digest, September 1961, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 22-24, 78, several noted authors give their advice to novice writers, Steinbeck's response (page 24, along with a facsimile of his signature) is: "Sorry--If I had any advice to give I'd take it myself," Goldstone & Payne C175, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD30883 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. In Dubious Battle. NY, Bantam Books, 1961, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. H2279, as usual Bantam provides a lot of publishing history, but it doesn't include the 1957 Ace Books edition by Harborough Publishing, Goldstone & Payne A5l, Morrow 52. Very good plus. JD29771 | $10.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. In Quest of America. NY, Holiday, July 1961, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This is Part I, pages 26-33, 79-85, Goldstone & Payne C174, see Morrow 400. Near fine. JD29243 | $20.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Jalopies I Have Loved and Cursed. NY, Holiday, July 1954, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 44-45, 89-90, Goldstone & Payne C101, Morrow 393. Fine. JD29172 | $30.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. John Steinbeck His Language. Aptos, Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs, 1970, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. One of only 150 copies printed at the Grace Hoper Press, text is by James D. Hart with a letter from Steinbeck used as frontispiece, it also includes Steinbeck's "translation" of a poem from the Ukranian into a language he created, Goldstone & Payne A45a, Morrow 279, this copy with the very white wrappers. Fine. JD29454 | $250.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. John Steinbeck His Language. Aptos, Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs, 1970, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. One of only 150 copies printed at the Grace Hoper Press, text is by James D. Hart with a letter from Steinbeck used as frontispiece, it also includes Steinbeck's "translation" of a poem from the Ukranian into a language he created, Goldstone & Payne A45a, Morrow 279, this copy with the creamy white wrappers, this is a presentation copy from James D. Hart inscribed in the year of publicatiion ("And another little/pamphlet for Jim Shipper/from Jim Hart 10/9/70"), very scarce thus. Fine. JD30145 | $350.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. John Steinbeck Replies. NY, L. M. Birkhead (Friends of Democracy), 1940, first edition. One printed sheet folded to make four pages, it prints a letter from Birkhead to Steinbeck asking his response to allegations that The Grapes of Wrath is Jewish propaganda, Steinbeck's letter of reply follows, very fragile, very scarce, Goldstone & Payne A13a, Morrow 133, now housed in a custom clamshell case. Fine, especially scarce in this condition. JD29460 | $1,250.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Caedmon, 1978, first edition. Caedmon TC 1570, these excerpts are read by Henry Fonda, the man who portrayed Tom Joad in the film version of The Grapes of Wrath, he reads excerpts from Chapters 1, 3, 17, and 18, liner notes by Jacques Levy, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or the Morrow catalogue. Fine. JD28669 | $30.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Journal of a Novel The East of Eden Letters. NY, Viking, 1969, first edition, glassine dust jacket. Hardcover. Slipcase, one of 600 copies, published a year after Steinbeck's death, specially bound, with seven plates that are facsimiles of pages from the original manuscript, frontispiece photo of the box that Steinbeck carved to house the manuscript which he presented to his friend and editor at Viking, the legendary Pascal Covici, these letters to Covici were Steinbeck's method of warming up to writing his great novel, East of Eden, the seventh facsimile is the original draft of Steinbeck's dedication to Covici, followed by a printing of that dedication, Goldstone & Payne A44a, Morrow 274, still housed in its original mailing box coded with the book's title, scarce thus. Fine. JD6422 | $550.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Journal of a Novel. NY, The Writer, May 1970, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 13-15, 33-36, Goldstone & Payne C212, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29280 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Journal of a Novel. London, Heinemann, 1970, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. These journal entries are letters Steinbeck wrote to his editor, Pascal Covici, in preparation for writing East of Eden, Goldstone & Payne A44c, Morrow 276. Fine. JD29447 | $100.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Journal of a Novel. NY, Viking, 1969, first trade edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. These are Steinbeck's East of Eden letters written to his editor, Pascal Covici, Goldstone & Payne A44b, Morrow 275. Jacket with a one-inch tear mostly hidden near the top of the spine, else fine. JD30146 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Journal of a Novel. London, Heinemann, 1970, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. These journal entries are letters Steinbeck wrote to his editor, Pascal Covici, in preparation for writing East of Eden, Goldstone & Payne A44c, Morrow 276. Fine. JD30147 | $125.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. La Perla. n.p., RKO Radio Pictures/Aguila Films, n.d. (1948), first edition thus. A 27X41-inch color poster for the Mexican release of this film shot entirely in Mexico, the film is based on Steinbeck's short novel and was filmed in both English and Spanish which increases the significance of this poster which wasn't in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, see Goldstone & Payne E15, not recorded by Morrow, very scarce. Slightly dusty and with edge wear and folds, as usual. JD28167 | $350.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Let's Go After the Neglected Treasurers Beneath the Seas. NY, Popular Science, September 1966, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 84-87, this is a letter to the editor contribution, Goldstone & Payne C195, not recorded by Morrow. Moderately rubbed, mailing label removed, else very good. JD29269 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Letter From Monterey. Los Angeles, Occident, Fall 1949, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Reprinted from the 1936 issue with the same title, published by the Associated Students of the University of California, this issue not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine. JD29145 | $60.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. (Letter). NY, Saturday Review, February 27, 1954, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Page 8, this short piece on what was his 52nd birthday includes fragments of letters from Steinbeck predicting what kind of reviews his East of Eden would receive, he turned out to be fairly accurate, Goldstone & Payne C98, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29170 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. ...Like Captured Fireflies. San 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. JD29206 | $650.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. ...like captured fireflies. n.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. JD35566 | $12,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Living With Hard Times. NY, Esquire, June 1983, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 30, 32, 34-35, this is the magazine's 50th anniversary issue, it reprints this story first published in Esquire as A Primer on the Thirties. Fine. JD29285 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Madison Avenue and the Election. NY, Saturday Review, March 31, 1956, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Page 11, Goldstone & Payne C134, Morrow 397. Light wear, else near fine. JD29203 | $20.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Madison Avenue and the Election. NY, Saturday Review, March 31, 1956, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Page 11, Goldstone & Payne C134, Morrow 397. Very good. JD32251 | $17.50 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Miracle of Tepayac. Springfield, Collier's, December 25, 1948, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 22-23, Goldstone & Payne C73, not recorded by Morrow. Nearly fine. JD29143 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Molly Morgan. NY, Avon Modern Short Story Monthly, 1946, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 31 in this series, pages 150-162, text from The Pastures of Heaven, Goldstone & Payne C65, not recorded by Morrow. Very nearly fine. JD29137 | $30.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Molly Morgan. Chicago, Dramatic Publishing Company, 1961, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A play in three acts, dramatized by Reginald Lawrence, based on the Molly Morgan character in Steinbeck's second book, The Pastures of Heaven, quite scarce (even the publisher doesn't have a copy), Goldstone & Payne A2q, not recorded by Morrow. Very good. JD29798 | $85.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Molly Morgan. Chicago, Dramatic Publishing Company, 1961, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A play in three acts, dramatized by Reginald Lawrence, based on the Molly Morgan character in Steinbeck's second book, The Pastures of Heaven, quite scarce (even the publisher doesn't have a copy), this is the later issue noted by Goldstone & Payne as having a slip pasted onto the copyright page which changes the performance fees, see Goldstone & Payne A2q, not recorded by Morrow. Ink name, very good. JD29799 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. More About Aristocracy: Why Not A World Peerage?. NY, Saturday Review, December 10, 1955, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Page 11, Goldstone & Payne C129, not recorded by Morrow. Near fine. JD29198 | $20.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. My Dear Friend Genya... Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, September 1966, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Page 128, text condensed from Newsday, Goldstone & Payne C196, Morrow 407. Fine. JD29271 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. My Short Novels. Garden City, Wings, October 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This is the official publication of the Literary Guild of America, Steinbeck''s piece appears on pages 4-8, illustrated by Harvey Kidder, followed by a brief note about Steinbeck, preceded by a piece about The Short Novels of John Steinbeck as the Literary Guild was about to issue its edition of that book, Goldstone & Payne C97, Morrow 392, scarce. Fine. JD29168 | $50.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. New Graduates: These Are Your Lives!. NY, Esquire, September 1975, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 69, 142-143, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29282 | $15.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. "News of the Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club". Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, Spring 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Includes notes on the five titles selected for the Spring 1953 compilation book, which included East of Eden, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good. JD29160 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Nothing So Monstrous. NY, Pynson Printers, December 1936, first edition. This hardcover with marbled boards and orange cloth spine is the first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story from Steinbeck's second book, The Pastures of Heaven, Goldstone & Payne A2f, see Morrow 16, issued here with a new title and an epilogue written especially for this book by Steinbeck, it is one of only 370 copies for presentation by a number of subscribers to be used as a Christmas gift, it includes pen and ink drawings by Donald McKay, this is a most interesting Association Copy made at the request of Rockwell Kent who has Signed his name on the presentation page where the requester's name was to have been inserted, Kent then added the word "himself" in the area where the presentee's name was to have been filled in, Kent was the "house" artist for the Pynson Printers, the book is also Signed by Elmer Adler, F. B. Adams, and John Winterich, Sally and Rockwell Kent's modest bookplate affixed to the front pastedown, now housed in Kent's custom slipcase. Fine. JD29790 | $2,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Nothing So Monstrous. n.p., Richard West, 1980, first edition. This hardcover was issued without dust jacket, red cloth with gilt-lettered spine, one of 150 copies printed from the original 1936 edition, this is the Junius Maltby story from Steinbeck's second book, The Pastures of Heaven, not recorded by Morrow, scarce. Fine. JD29803 | $150.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Nothing So Monstrous. NY, Pynson Printers, Dec. 1936, first edition thus. First separate printing of the Junius Maltby story from Steinbeck's second book, The Pastures of Heaven, bound with marbled boards and orange cloth spine, issued without jacket, one of only 370 copies, pen and ink drawings by Donald McKay, designed to be used as a Christmas gift for the use of Ben Abramson, Elmer Adler, Frederick B. Adams Jr., Edwin J. Beinecke, and Howard Mott, it includes Steinbeck's epilogue written especially for this book, Goldstone & Payne A2f, this copy has the printed colophon which indicates that this copy was prepared at the request of Elmer Adler for presentation to Patricia S. Huntington, Goldstone & Payne A2f, see Morrow 16. Edgewear, else fine. JD35526 | $1,000.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. O. Henry's Full House. n.p., 20th Century-Fox, n.d. (c.1951), first edition. This is a VHS video cassette of this experimental omnibus film that features five O. Henry stories directed by five different directors using five different screen writers, stars include Marilyn Monroe, Charles Laughton, and others, John Steinbeck makes a rare on-screen appearance to introduce the film, his narration also couples the five segments. Fine. JD28191 | $100.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. O. Henry's Full House. n.p., 20th Century-Fox, n.d. (c.1951), first edition. This is a VHS video cassette of this experimental omnibus film that features five O. Henry stories directed by five different directors using five different screen writers, stars include Marilyn Monroe, Charles Laughton, and others, John Steinbeck makes a rare on-screen appearance to introduce the film, his narration also couples the five segments. Fine. JD28337 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men A Play in Three Acts. NY, Covici Friede, 1937, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. This was Steinbeck's first in his experiments in writing plays, and his most successful, the play eventually reached Broadway and starred Wallace Ford as George and Broderick Crawford as Lennie, the play won Steinbeck the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play of the 1937-38 season, Goldstone & Payne A8a, Morrow 73. Aged, else fine in an aged, but clean dust jacket which is at least very good plus. JD29850 | $1,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Of Mice And Men. MGM, 1992, first edition. An advance color film poster for this re-make, 27X41 inches, this is essentially the same poster as the regular release except that it carries only an MGM credit and an "October 1992" date (as in coming in Oct. 1992) across the bottom. Rolled, never folded. JD872 | $15.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. Guilford, Jeffrey Norton Publishers, 1989, first edition. Issued as part of the publisher's Audio-Forum series, this is a 60-minute cassette recording of the Theatre Guild's production of this play which originally aired May 8, 1949 and which starred Burgess Meredith. As new, unplayed. JD28328 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. London, Heinemann, 1937, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Blue pictorial jacket designed and illustrated by Michael Rothenstein printed in pink and black and with pink endpapers and top edge stained pink (Goldstone & Payne state that the top edge is stained blue with the jacket printed in black only, noting a variant in a white jacket printed in pink and black with the top edge stained pink and with pink endpapers), G&P A7c, Morrow 60 . Very good. JD29825 | $1,250.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. NY, Bantam Books, 1955, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. A1329, front cover illustration by Joseph Hirsch, Goldstone & Payne A7t, Morrow 66. Nearly fine. JD29844 | $10.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. NY, Heritage Press, 1970, first edition thus. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, includes the illustrations by Fletcher Martin as first published in the Limited Editions Club edition, includes the Heritage Club's periodical, "Sandglass" which talks about Steinbeck, the illustrator, and the printing of this book, introduction by John T. Winterich, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, Morrow 69. Fine. JD29847 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. NY, Viking, 1968, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. First Viking large-type edition, this is their first book in a series using 18-point type for the visually handicapped, Goldstone & Payne A7y, Morrow 68. Jacket price-clipped, else fine, especially scarce in this condition. JD29849 | $50.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Open Season on Guests. Chicago, Playboy, September 1957, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Page 21, Goldstone & Payne C153, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29219 | $50.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Our "Rigged" Morality. NY, Coronet, March 1960, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 144-147, this is correspondence between Steinbeck and Adlai E. Stevenson, photos of each, plus the text, Goldstone & Payne C165, not recorded by Morrow. Light chipping to spine ends, else fine. JD29231 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Pat Humbert's. NY, Book Digest, September 1950, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 159-172, text from The Viking Portable Steinbeck, although it was originally published as part of his second book,The Pastures of Heaven, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good. JD29156 | $20.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. Pipe Dream. n.p. (NY), RCA Victor, 1955, first edition. This is an original cast recording of Pipe Dream which was adapted from Steinbeck's novel, Sweet Thursday, by Rodgers and Hammerstein II, No. EP EOC-1023, includes three 45 rpm records housed in a folding slipcase, this copy carries the "SPECIAL ADVANCE EDITION" sticker on the front which some believe makes this a promotional copy, but, according to Miles Kreuger, president of the Institute of the American Musical, the cover credits omitted Judy Tyler's credit, these first issue album covers were then "fixed" by adding the advance edition label, inside liner notes by Rudolph Elie, Pipe Dream was presented in a number of formats, including this one, but none were in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, this format not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or the Morrow catalogue. Records are fine, slipcase is near fine. JD28352 | $125.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Popping Off. Cavalcade, February 1965, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 10-11, with an interesting illustration of Steinbeck, text from Saturday Review, Goldstone & Payne cites only a later issue of this magazine with the story and even that was a photo-copy provided by Preston Beyer, not recorded by Morrow. Rubbed, else nearly fine. JD29260 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Popping Off. NY, Cavalcade, September 1966, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Page 28, text from Saturday Review, this item wasn't in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, cited as Goldstone & Payne C194 via a photo-copy from Preston Beyer, not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus. JD29268 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Report on America. London, Punch, June 22, 1955, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 754-755, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Near fine. JD29192 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Robert Capa: An Appreciation. NY, Photography, September 1954, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 48-53, includes many of Capa's photographs, of course, including one used in their author/photographer collaboration, A Russian Journal, Goldstone & Payne C105, not recorded by Morrow. Near fine. JD29175 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Saint Katy the Virgin. n.p. (NY), Covici Friede, 1936, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. No. 143 of 199 copies Signed by John Steinbeck, this legendary rarity was issued as a Christmas gift for friends of the author and publisher, printed on hand-made Perusia paper by the Golden Eagle Press in Mount Vernon, NY, this story of a pig was with questionable chastity was later printed in Steinbeck's The Long Valley, Goldstone and Payne A6, Morrow 56. Very nearly fine copy of a scarce and fragile signed/limited edition. JD35525 | $3,750.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. "Shark" Wicks. NY, The Avon Annual, 1944, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 12-25, this is the first issue in this series, text from The Pastures of Heaven, Goldstone & Payne C55, not recorded by Morrow. Nearly fine. JD29125 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Some Thoughts on Juvenile Delinquency. NY, Saturday Review, May 28, 1955, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Page 22, Goldstone & Payne C119, not recorded by Morrow. Very good. JD29190 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature. NY, Viking, 1962, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Frontispiece photo portrait of Steinbeck, one of 3,200 copies printed for presentation by Viking, Goldstone & Payne A40a, Morrow 269. Minor spine seam split to outer tan wrapper, else fine. JD6170 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature. NY, Viking, 1962, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Frontispiece photo portrait of Steinbeck, one of 3,200 copies printed, Goldstone & Payne A40a, Morrow 269, this copy Inscribed by Steinbeck on the title page ("For Lou Robinson/with pleasure,/John Steinbeck"), very scarce thus. Fine. JD29431 | $5,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature. NY, Viking, 1962, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Frontispiece photo portrait of Steinbeck, one of 3,200 copies printed, Goldstone & Payne A40a, Morrow 269, this copy Inscribed by Steinbeck under his frontispiece photo, very scarce thus. Fine. JD30425 | $4,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature. NY, Viking, 1962, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Frontispiece photo portrait of Steinbeck, one of 3,200 copies printed, Goldstone & Payne A40a, Morrow 269. Fine. JD30474 | $225.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. (Steinbeck, John). Library of America, c.1994, first edition. A poster, a huge black and white image of a very young, gangly-faced John Steinbeck from a photo of him by Sonja Noskowiak, issued by the Library of America in conjunction with its publication of John Steinbeck, Novels And Stories 1932-1937 (the first in a projected multi-volume edition of his writings), it measures c.24X31 inches. Rolled, never folded, as new. JD858 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Tal Vid Nobelfesten. BLM (Bonniers Litterara Magasin), January 1963, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 9-10, this is a translation of Steinbeck's Nobel Prize speech by Pelle Fritz-Crone, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Near fine. JD29248 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Steinbeck, John. Tanoshii Mokuyobi (Sweet Thursday). Tokyo, Shimin Shobo, 1984, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. A Japanese translation of Sweet Thursday, translated by Hiromu Shimizu, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, and Kiyoshio Nakayama, one of 1,500 copies, the Goldstone & Payne bibliography doesn't list any Japanese translations of this title, this copy briefly inscribed by Nakayama and also signed by Kobayashi, with the scarce wrap-around band. Fine, unread. JD31710 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Acts of King Arthur And His Noble Knights. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy, an uncorrected proof, edited by Chase Horton, these tales are Steinbeck's attempt to render Malory "into modern English," the importance to Steinbeck and his literature of the Morte d'Arthur cannot be over-stated, as he writes in his introduction, "I think my sense of right and wrong...and any thought I may have had against the oppressor and for the oppressed, came from this book," this copy is especially important because it was one of two copies sent to novelist John Gardner, author of such novels as Grendel and The Resurrection, Gardner also wrote The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet, The Alliterative Morte Arthure, and other "olde English" books, this copy includes Gardner's pencil marks, underlining, and bracketting of sections as well as a list on the front cover of possible places of publication for blurbs and/or reviews, this was originally obtained from Susan Thornton who was Gardner's fiancee at the time of his death, Morrow 284. Very good. JD29465 | $500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Acts of King Arthur And His Noble Knights. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy, an uncorrected proof, edited by Chase Horton, these tales are Steinbeck's attempt to render Malory "into modern English," the importance to Steinbeck and his literature of the Morte d'Arthur cannot be over-stated, as he writes in his introduction, "I think my sense of right and wrong...and any thought I may have had against the oppressor and for the oppressed, came from this book," this copy is especially important because it was one of two copies sent to novelist John Gardner, author of such novels as Grendel and The Resurrection, Gardner also wrote The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet, The Alliterative Morte Arthure, and other "olde English" books, this copy was sent to Gardner by the New York Times in order to write a review which the Times published, laid in loosely is the slip from the Times asking for an 800-word review, this was originally obtained from Susan Thornton who was Gardner's fiance at the time of his death, according to Morrow 284 there are a number of textual differences between this proof copy and the published version. Very good. JD30184 | $750.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Acts of King Arthur And His Noble Knights. London, Heinemann, 1976, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Edited by Chase Horton, these tales are Steinbeck's attempt to render Malory "into modern English," Steinbeck's "translations" are based on the Winchester manuscript of Thomas Malory and other sources, the importance to Steinbeck and his literature of the Morte d'Arthur cannot be over-stated, as he writes in his introduction, "I think my sense of right and wrong...and any thought I may have had against the oppressor and for the oppressed, came from this book," Morrow 286. Very good plus. JD30186 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Bomber--Our Best Weapon. NY, Science Digest, July 1943, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 61-66, condensed from his book, Bombs Away, Goldstone & Payne C47, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29116 | $35.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. The Chrysanthemums. Santa Monica, Pyramid Film & Video, n.d. (1990), first edition. This is a 23-minute VHS production of John Steinbeck's short story, it is aimed primarily for the high school market, the same company also produced short films of two other Steinbeck short stories, The Raid and Molly Morgan. As new. JD28336 | $50.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Death of a Racket. NY, Saturday Review, April 2, 1955, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. An editorial, page 26, Goldstone & Payne C115, not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus. JD29186 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The First Watch. NY, Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn, 1947, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. First and only edition, No. 7 of only 60 copies printed by Ward Ritchie, with its original white paper envelope which is also No. 7, the first 10 copies went to Steinbeck with the remainder going to the Cohns (House of Books) for Christmas gift presentation, this elusive "A" item is a letter from Steinbeck to Arnold Gingrich, editor of "Esquire," thanking him for sending a watch as a gift, the letter is full of Steinbeck's typical humor noting that he had expected a watch when he graduated from high school, but none was forthcoming, and since he didn't actually graduate from Stanford University he likewise hadn't received a watch as a gift, Goldstone & Payne A26a, Morrow 199 and 200. Fine. JD30040 | $8,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Forgotten Village. NY, Book League, 1941, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. This story of life in a Mexican village is the first Book League edition with the Book League notation on the dust jacket spine, a second printing before publication followed this first Book League printing, Steinbeck provides his own preface, it includes 136 b&w photos from the film of the same name by Rosa Harvan Kline and Alexander Hackensmid, both the film story and script were written by Steinbeck whose text accompanies each photo, the film was directed by Herbert Kline, Hackensmid was co-director and director of photography, the film was narrated by Burgess Meredith, Goldstone & Payne A14b, Morrow 136. Very good plus. JD29982 | $60.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Frog Hunt. NY, Encore, September 1945, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 266-270, text from Steinbeck's novel, Cannery Row, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good. JD29130 | $20.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. n.p., DJ Art, 1980, first edition. One of 500 numbered copies of an original color lithographic reproduction of the front panel of the dust jacket art from Steinbeck's masterpiece, the original illustration was done by Elmer Hader, this reproduction was planned to be the first in a series of dust jacket art prints created by a Southern California bookseller (until lawyers for the Steinbeck literary estate heard about it), the whole measures c.13X19 inches. Fine. JD5104 | $45.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. San Diego, Performing Arts, May 1989, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This magazine includes the program for the La Jolla Playhouse presentation of a play version of The Grapes of Wrath performed by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, adapted and directed by Frank Galati. Fine. JD28235 | $15.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Caedmon, 1978, first edition. A cassette that features selections from Steinbeck's masterpiece as read by Henry Fonda, it was Fonda who portrayed Tom Joad in the 1940 film version of The Grapes of Wrath, he reads from Chapters 1, 3, 17, and 18. As new, unplayed, in original shrink-wrap. JD28323 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. London, Heinemann, 1939, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. With the very scarce wrap-around band noting this was a Book Society Fiction Choice, this copy with a small slip affixed to the title page that is Inscribed by John Steinbeck ("For L. Downing/John Steinbeck"), Goldstone & Payne A12b, Morrow 108. Near fine. JD29403 | $5,000.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. No book is more identified with John Steinbeck than this masterpiece which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and which was the source for the film version directed by John Ford that starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad and which won Jane Darwell an Academy Award for her portrayal of Ma Joad, the book was also the source for the Tony Award-winning Broadway play, one of the true high spots of 20th Century literature, jacket designed by Elmer Hader, this is an incredibly scarce Review Copy with review slip from Viking, this is the only review copy seen by this bookseller in more than 50+ years of being involved in all things Steinbeck, see Goldstone & Payne A12a, see Morrow 107. Fine in a jacket with a couple of small tape ghosts from where the review slip was previously affixed, jacket is otherwise clean, bright, and fine. JD29949 | $20,000.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. London, World Books, 1940, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. The jacket carries photos of the stars of the 20th Century-Fox film version in a circular or horseshow fashion, among those pictured are Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, Jane Darwell as Ma Joad, and John Carradine as Casy, a very scarce book, this book was not in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne A12k (cited via the Preston Beyer copy), not recorded by Morrow. Very good. JD29954 | $250.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Sun Dial Press, 1941, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. This issue with the dark brown cloth stamped in dark brown (one of three bindings noted by the bibliography -- there are at least four), this copy without the list of other Steinbeck titles on the verso of the fly title, Goldstone & Payne A12l, see Morrow 113. Very good. JD29957 | $50.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Bantam Books, November 1945, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 7 (although Goldstone & Payne states that it is unnumbered), part of the first 20 Bantam titles which were printed simultaneously in November 1945, but which were not distributed until January 1946--which explains why later printings of these titles give January 1946 as the date of original publication, Goldstone & Payne A12p, Morrow 116. Solid very good plus. JD29962 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Viking Compass, 1967, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is the first Viking Compass hardcover edition, with part of Elmer Hader's illustration that was used on the dust jacket of the original 1939 edition, Goldstone & Payne A12v, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29966 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Viking Press, 1972, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. First Viking Critical Library edition as edited by Peter Lisca, includes previously unpublished letters from Steinbeck, Goldstone & Payne A12ee, Morrow 126. Near fine. JD29967 | $20.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Franklin Watts, n.d. (c.1966), first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. First large-type edition, a Keith Jennison book "complete and unabridged," this edition wasn't in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, cited as Goldstone & Payne A12z via the San Francisco Public Library, not recorded by Morrow, scarce. Very good. JD29979 | $65.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Heritage Press, 1940, first edition thus. Full leather binding of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, issued without dust jacket, beautifully illustrated with lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, also includes John Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath by Joseph Henry Jackson, and Thomas Benton and The Grapes of Wrath by Thomas Craven, Goldstone & Payne A12e, Morrow 110, the majority of the Heritage Press editions were issued in coarse cloth, but this leatherbound de luxe edition is quite scarce. Leather is scuffed around extremities, else very good. JD35391 | $150.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. C-90 in this important series, with a note about the author at the end, it was later reprinted within the Armed Services Editions series as No. 690 in 1945, Goldstone & Payne (G&P) incorrectly states that No. 690 is the first issue, both G&P and Morrow 115 incorrectly give 1943 as the date of publication, this is one of the very scarce D-Day Armed Services Editions issues, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD36304 | $300.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 690 in this important series, a classic literary novel that combines Dust Bowl issues with California agricultural politics, it reprints ASE No. C-90 issued earlier in the series in 1944, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, see Goldstone & Payne A12o. Very good. JD36853 | $60.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Hanging at San Quentin. NY, Avon Modern Short Story Monthly, 1945, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This is No. 25 in this series, Steinbeck's short story appears on pages 11-22, text from The Pastures of Heaven, Goldstone & Payne C63, not recorded by Morrow. Ink name, else near fine. JD29133 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Harness. NY, The Atlantic, June 1938, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 741-749, Goldstone & Payne C30, not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus. JD29102 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Joan in All of Us. NY, Saturday Review, January 14, 1956, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 17, text from "John O'London's Weekly," Goldstone & Payne C131, not recorded by Morrow. Near fine. JD29200 | $20.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Leader of the People. Los Angeles, "Black & White", November 1939, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. 18-24, text from The Long Valley, the magazine incorrectly states that this is the first periodical appearance of this story, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Uniform age to cheap newsprint stock, else very good. JD29096 | $150.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Leader of the People. Chicago, Dramatic Publishing Company, 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This one-act play was dramatized by Luella E. McMahon from Steinbeck's story which was the fourth part of his The Red Pony, Goldstone & Payne A9k, not recorded by Morrow. Very good. JD29909 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. NY, Avon Modern Short Story Monthly, 1943, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 11-162, issue No. 9 in this series, it includes 13 stories from Steinbeck's 1938 short story collection, The Long Valley, such as Flight, The Snake, The Red Pony, etc., Goldstone & Payne C52, Morrow 96. Very good or better. JD29118 | $30.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. NY, Viking, 1938, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Steinbeck's first book published by Viking, a short story collection of all-star stories that includes Flight which appears for the first time as well as such Steinbeck classics as The Chrysanthemums, The Snake, Breakfast, The Harness, Johnny Bear, and all portions of The Red Pony, Goldstone & Payne A11a, Morrow 90, this is one of 8,000 copies (as opposed to 50,000 copies for The Grapes of Wrath and more than 100,000 copies for East of Eden), the dust jacket is illustrated by Elmer Hader who also illustrated dust jackets for Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and The Winter of Our Discontent. While this copy has some of the inevitable age-darkening to the book spine, it is far less than usual and the book itself is quite tight, minor soiling to jacket, fine. JD29398 | $2,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. NY, Sun Dial Press, 1941, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. A short story collection by an acknowledged master of the form, it includes Flight, The Chrysanthemums, The Snake, The Harness, Johnny Bear, St. Katy the Virgin, and all four portions of The Red Pony, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. 1941 Christmas gift inscription, else nearly fine in a very good or better jacket. JD29920 | $65.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1945, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. First Tower Books edition, dust jacket as illustrated by Elmer Hader (same manner as the Viking first edition), this short story compilation by an acknowledged master of that form includes The Chrysanthemums, Flight, all four portions of The Red Pony, and several other gems, Goldstone & Payne A11f, not recorded by Morrow. Bit of age and soil, else nearly fine, a pleasing copy. JD29922 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. NY, Avon Books, 1945, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 77 of the New Avon Library series, cover art by George Carrado, includes such Steinbeck classics as The Chrysanthemums, The Snake, Johnny Bear, The Vigilante, The Raid, and other gems by this acknowledged master of the short story, Goldstone & Payne A11e, Morrow 97. Very good. JD29923 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. Stockholm, Continental Book Company AB, 1946, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. This is the first Zephyr Books edition with its original and scarce dust jacket, No. 41 in this series designed to complete a library of well known British and American authors, this edition was not to be introduced in either Britain or the United States, jacket lists 110 titles in the series, includes such masterful short stories as The Chrysanthemums, The Snake, Flight, all four portions of The Red Pony, and many others, Goldstone & Payne A11g, Morrow 98. Very good plus. JD29944 | $65.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. NY, Bantam Books, December 1967, first Bantam edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. S3538, this includes some of his best short stories, Goldstone & Payne A11o, not recorded by Morrow. Store stamps, else very good plus. JD29947 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 794 in this important series, it includes such classic Steinbeck short stories as The Chrysanthemums, The Snake, Johnny Bear, Flight, The Raid, The Harness, The Vigilante, The Murder, and all portions of The Red Pony, with a note about the author at the end, Goldstone & Payne A11c, Morrow 93, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus. JD36856 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Mail I've Seen. NY, Saturday Review, August 4, 1956, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 16, 34, Goldstone & Payne C138, not recorded by Morrow. Very good. JD29210 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Moon Is Down. Washington, Infantry Journal-Penguin Books, November 1943, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. S219, a very scarce book, Goldstone & Payne A16g, Morrow 155. Very good plus. JD6276 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Moon Is Down. London, Heinemann, 1942, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is one of Steinbeck's few novels set outside the United States, in it a Scandanavian country is over-run, but its citizens prove that their country cannot be conquered, Steinbeck wrote the book with an eye to adapting it into a play, which he did, Goldstone & Payne A16c, Morrow 151. Nearly fine in a very good jacket. JD29745 | $100.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Murder. NY, Redbook Magazine, May 1938, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 36-39, 78-80, text from The North American Review, Goldstone & Payne C28, not recorded by Morrow. Near fine. JD29101 | $65.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Murder. NY, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1946, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This short story by an acknowledged master of that form also includes a quite positive introduction by Queen, see pages 42-52, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good. JD29134 | $20.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. The Pastures of Heaven. n.p., Solar Productions, n.d.(c.1954), first edition. This "made" film, presented here in the old Beta format, presents three stories from Steinbeck's second book of the same title, they are the Junius Maltby story, the Pat Humbert story, and the "Shark" Wicks story, each had been produced as part of the old "Omnibus" television series in the early 1950s, Eugene Solow and Brewster Morgan obtained rights to the segments and strung them together with accompanying footage of Steinbeck himself appearing on camera to introduce the film in general and each of its three segments, this "film" was then released in England and Europe, but not in the United States, very scarce, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, nor the Morrow catalogue. Very good. JD28340 | $125.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Pastures of Heaven. London, Philip Allan, 1933, first British edition, first printing. Author's second book, lacking its dust jacket, Goldstone & Payne A2d, not recorded by Morrow, this was the first of his books published in Great Britain, very scarce. Ink name, spine panel color faded, else a very good copy of a poorly made book. JD29788 | $350.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Pastures of Heaven. NY, Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. With a first issue dust jacket, his second book, Goldstone & Payne A2a, Morrow 14, this first edition is one of only 1,650 copies actually bound (from a print-run of 2,500 sets of sheets), only a paltry 650 copies were actually sold, this was his first book with what could be called the Steinbeck "sound," the book is comprised of inter-related stories set in a valley that came to represent Steinbeck Country, in these stories something is not quite right with the inhabitants of this otherwise peaceful valley, according to Harry Thornton Moore in his first critical study of Steinbeck's works, The Pastures of Heaven "is the most popular of Steinbeck's three early books. It points the way to most of his subsequent writing," this example of a short story cycle may well be Steinbeck's finest work, scarce when found with the correct dust jacket, those jackets that are noted as 2 mm shorter than the book are second issue jackets. Very good copy in a stunning jacket without any nicks, tears, or chips, extremely scarce thus. JD35529 | $25,000.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Pearl. "Omnibook", March 1948, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Introduction, note about Steinbeck, and authorized abridgement of text, 103-122, Goldstone & Payne C72, not recorded by Morrow, front cover illustration is for The Pearl. Very good. JD5405 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Pearl. NY, Omnibook, March 1948, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Introduction, note about Steinbeck, and a condensed verfsion of The Pearl on pages 103-122, Goldstone & Payne C72, not recorded by Morrow. Pages aged, else fine. JD29141 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Pearl. NY, Bantam Books, 1947, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 131, this is the first photoplay edition of this short novel, illustrated with eight pages of photos from the film version that starred Pedro Armendariz and Maria Elena Marquez for which Steinbeck wrote the screenplay, Goldstone & Payne A25d, Morrow 192. Aged, else very good. JD35652 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Pearl. NY, Bantam Books, 1947, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 131, this is the first photoplay edition of this short novel, illustrated with eight pages of photos from the film version that starred Pedro Armendariz and Maria Elena Marquez for which Steinbeck wrote the screenplay, Goldstone & Payne A25d, Morrow 192. Aged, else very good plus. JD36891 | $17.50 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Poor Pirate. NY, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 33-43, text from Tortilla Flat, Goldstone & Payne C82, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29151 | $20.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Promise. NY, "Harper's", August 1937, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. 243-252, Goldstone & Payne C22, Morrow 384. Very good. JD28668 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Promise. NY, Digest and Review, October 1937, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 91-97, condensed from Harper's Magazine, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good. JD29108 | $37.50 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Promise. NY, "Harper's, August 1937, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. 243-252, Goldstone & Payne C22, Morrow 384. Very good. JD30530 | $25.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony. Republic, 1949, first edition. An original-release color film poster, 14X36 inches, for the film that starred Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum, both of whom are pictured, good and prominent use of Steinbeck's name and with a good book illustration, this item wasn't in the Goldstone collection, but see G&P E16, see Morrow 550. Folded, as usual, else bright, clean and colorful. JD6210 | $225.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony. n.p., Republic, 1949, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. An original-release film pressbook, 18 pages, with color cover, for the film that starred Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum, good Steinbeck/book tie-ins, quite attractive, filled with articles about the stars and the making of the film, shows examples of posters issued, thus it is an excellent reference, this item wasn't in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne E16, not recorded by Morrow. Previously folded, as usual, edgewear, split entirely along spine seam, else very good. JD28169 | $175.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony. NY, Viking, 1945, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, this first illustrated edition includes the beautiful color illustrations by Wesley Dennis, Goldstone & Payne A9c identifies three versions, but there is an unrecorded fourth, this copy printed by Zeese Wilkinson and bound by H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company as noted in Goldstone & Payne A9c variant 1, but this copy has the tan publisher's slipcase (ala variant 2), see Morrow 81. 1945 gift inscription, else fine in a very good plus slipcase. JD29485 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony. NY, Viking, 1945, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with the publisher's slipcase, this is the first illustrated edition with the beautiful color illustrations by Wesley Dennis, it is also the first edition to include all four portions of the story, The Gift, The Great Mountains, The Promise, and The Leader of the People, produced by Zeese-Wilkinson Company, Goldstone & Payne A9c, variant 1, although this copy is housed in a beige slipcase (not blue-gray), see Morrow 81. Absolutely fine in a very good slipcase. JD29859 | $95.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony. NY, Viking, 1945, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with the publisher's slipcase, this is the first illustrated edition with the beautiful color illustrations by Wesley Dennis, it is also the first edition to include all four portions of the story, The Gift, The Great Mountains, The Promise, and The Leader of the People, produced by Rogers-Kellogg-Stillson, Goldstone & Payne A9c, variant 2, see Morrow 81. Fine in a very good slipcase. JD29860 | $95.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony. NY, Viking, 1945, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with the publisher's slipcase, this is the first illustrated edition with the beautiful color illustrations by Wesley Dennis, it is also the first edition to include all four portions of the story, The Gift, The Great Mountains, The Promise, and The Leader of the People, produced by Zeese-Wilkinson Company, Goldstone & Payne A9c, variant 1, although this copy is housed in a beige slipcase (not blue-gray), see Morrow 81. Bookplate, else fine in a good (tape-reinforced) slipcase. JD29861 | $65.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony. NY, Viking, 1945, first edition thus. Issued without dust jacket, but with the publisher's slipcase, while this appears to be the first illustrated edition with the beautiful color illustrations by Wesley Dennis, it is actually a Book-of-the-Month Club book dividend with a full-color prospectus for the book with its appreciation of the book, its illustrations, and Steinbeck by Bernardine Kielty laid in loosely, it includes all four portions of the story, The Gift, The Great Mountains, The Promise, and The Leader of the People, produced by Rogers-Kellogg-Stillson, this book was not in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, cited as Goldstone & Payne A9f via a Bantam Books reference, not recorded by Morrow. Fine in a very good slipcas. JD29862 | $35.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony. n.p., Republic, 1949, first edition. An original-release color film poster for the film that starred Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum, 27X41 inches, this was a Lewis Milestone film with the screenplay written by Steinbeck based on his own book, this item wasn't in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne E16, see Morrow 550. Folded, as usual, else very good. JD30768 | $175.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Short-Short History of Mankind. Chicago, Playboy, April 1958, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 32-34, text from "Lilliput," Goldstone & Payne C156, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29222 | $50.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Snake and Johnny Bear. NY, Columbia Records, 1953, first edition thus. A 33 rpm record with Steinbeck himself reading two of his best-known short stories, The Snake, and Johnny Bear, Columbia ML 4756, slipcase front with giant photo of Steinbeck at the microphone by Dan Weiner, this is one of five albums released singularly from the Columbia Literary Series (a set of 12 12-inch records with a variety of authors readings from their works), liner notes by series editor Goddard Lieberson (which erroneously award Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize for East of Eden), this item wasn't in the Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne G50, Morrow 693. Some use to album slipcase, as usual, but slipcase is still factory sealed, the seal is still not fully broken, thus the record itself is unplayed. JD28354 | $300.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. The Snake and Johnny Bear. NY, Caedmon, 1984, first edition. Caedmon TC-1750, with album slipcover as illustrated by Kenneth Smith, a stereo recording of Steinbeck himself reading two of his most famous short stories, this was originally recorded as part of the Columbia Literary Series in 1953 in which 12 authors read from their works. As new, unplayed, in the publisher's shrink-wrap. JD28367 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Snake. Canada, Rex Stout Mystery Quarterly, July 1945, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 31-39, based on a true incident at the marine biology lab of Steinbeck's best friend, Ed Ricketts, this is the Vol. 1, No. 1 issue of this periodical, but this is the Canadian issue (carrying a July 1945 publication date, along with a notation of its being the Summer quarterly, unlike the American issue which is the Spring issue dated May 1945), not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good. JD29128 | $65.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Sons of Cyrus Trask. Springfield, Collier's, July 12, 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 14-15, 38-41, text from East of Eden, Goldstone & Payne C81, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29150 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Sons of Cyrus Trask. London, Lilliput, November-December 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 88-102, illustrated by Jack Daniels, text from East of Eden, Goldstone & Payne C85, not recorded by Morrow, curiously, there is another "Lilliput" issue identical to this one that gives the same issue and volume numbers, but it is dated December-January 1952, that issue is not recorded by G&P or Morrow. Clean very good. JD34274 | $50.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Spivaks Beat the Odds. Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, October 1958, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 153-154, condensed from "The Journal of the American Medical Association," Goldstone & Payne C160, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29226 | $20.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Spivaks Beat the Odds. Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, October 1958, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 153-154, condensed from "The Journal of the American Medical Association," Goldstone & Payne C160, not recorded by Morrow, this is an "Advance Copy," so stated. Near fine. JD29227 | $22.50 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Trial of Arthur Miller. NY, Esquire, June 1957, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Page 86, Goldstone & Payne C151, not recorded by Morrow, also includes Dizzy Gillespie and Philippe Halsman. Very good. JD32258 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Used Car Lot. NY, Encore, March 1943, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 273-276, this is an excerpt from Chapter Seven of The Grapes of Wrath, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine. JD29119 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Vegetable War. NY, Saturday Review, July 21, 1956, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 34-35, Goldstone & Payne C137, not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus. JD29209 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Vivid Imagination. NY, Avon Modern Short Story Monthly, 1946, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This is No. 28 in the series, pages 62-73, text from The Pastures of Heaven, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good. JD29135 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Wayward Bus. NY, Omnibook, August 1947, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Introduction, note about Steinbeck, and a condensed version of The Wayward Bus pages 1-40, Goldstone & Payne C68, not recorded by Morrow. Aged pages, else fine. JD29139 | $20.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Wayward Bus. NY, Viking, 1947, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Second issue binding with the blindstamp on front cover the same shade as the rest of the binding, although a lot of readers get lost in Steinbeck's symbolism at the end of the book, it has broad moments when his writing is as sharp as ever, jacket designed by Robert Hallock, Goldstone & Payne A23a, variant 2, this binding not recorded by Morrow. Fine in a jacket with some soiling to rear panel, else fine. JD30022 | $150.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Wayward Bus. London, Heinemann, 1947, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. First issue binding of coarse red cloth, Goldstone & Payne A23b, Morrow 183. A rather poorly made book, but still very good plus. JD30023 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Wayward Bus. London, Heinemann, 1947, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Purple cloth, Goldstone & Payne A23b, variant 1, this binding not recorded by Morrow. A rather poorly made book, but still very good. JD30024 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Wayward Bus. NY, Bantam Books, 1950, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 752, cover art by Stahl, Goldstone & Payne A23h, not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus. JD30027 | $12.50 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. NY, Viking, 1961, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This was his last novel, this morality tale is generally credited as securing him the Nobel Prize for Literature, jacket is illustrated by Elmer Hader who also illustrated the dust jackets for Steinbeck's The Long Valley and The Grapes of Wrath, Goldstone & Payne A38b, Morrow 252. Very good plus. JD29445 | $250.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. NY, Viking, 1961, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This was his last novel, this morality tale is generally credited as securing him the Nobel Prize for Literature, jacket is illustrated by Elmer Hader who also illustrated the dust jackets for Steinbeck's The Long Valley and The Grapes of Wrath, Goldstone & Payne A38b, Morrow 252. Nearly fine. JD30106 | $300.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. London, Heinemann, 1961, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This morality tale helped Steinbeck win the Nobel Prize for Literature, jacket designed by Lacey Everett, Goldstone & Payne A38c, Morrow 254. Near fine. JD30107 | $150.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. To A God Unknown. NY, Robert O. Ballou, 1933, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. First issue of his third book, one of only 598 copies actually bound and sold, Goldstone & Payne A3a, Morrow 22, endpapers, title page vignette, and dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine, this book is Steinbeck at his most powerful and his most mystical. Black top edge stain still very black, book cloth somewhat mottled, jacket with one short tear, this is a very pleasing and attractive copy of a very scarce book. JD26993 | $5,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. To A God Unknown. NY, Bantam Books, 1955, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. A1324, his third book, Goldstone & Payne A3g, Morrow 25. Very good plus. JD29808 | $10.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. To A God Unknown. NY, Covici Friede, n.d. (1935), first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is the first edition, second issue comprised of first edition sheets with the title page a cancel, issued in a new and different dust jacket and what seems as the usual Covici Friede binding of light brown cloth with a variation of its usual decor, in this case the horizontal rule is green with author, title, publisher, and two ornaments also in green, Goldstone & Payne A3b, Morrow 23. Very good in a like jacket with a few small chips. JD35527 | $1,000.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. To the Swedish Academy and The Urge To Be Someplace Else. "Story", March-April 1963, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. The first prints Steinbeck's entire Nobel Prize speech, 6-8, as the lead article, illustrated with a photo of Steinbeck, the latter is an excerpt from Travels With Charley done as a cumulative piece by Steinbeck, Henry James, John Gunther, and Pio Barojan, Steinbeck's excerpt is 48-50, brief Steinbeck biography, 126, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good plus. JD4804 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Tortilla Flat. NY, Covici Friede, 1935, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. His breakthrough novel that follows the antics of Monterey's paisanos, this surface story is an allegory based on the Knights of the Round Table, this is an unrecorded Review Copy with the Covici Friede review slip tipped to the front free endpaper which prints the publication date as May 28, 1935 and shows the published price as $2.50, very scarce thus, the trade edition was comprised of 4,000 copies, illustrated by Ruth Gannett, see Goldstone & Payne A4b, see Morrow 29, although not specifically indicated, this was M. B. Goldstone's copy, he was the brother and rival collector of Adrian Goldstone upon whose collection the Steinbeck bibliography is based. Very good. JD27332 | $8,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Tortilla Flat. NY, The Book Digest, March 1938, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 68-82, text condensed, also includes a quick blurb about Steinbeck, an update about how he is now successful, but was once on relief, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good. JD29100 | $60.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Tortilla Flat. London, Heinemann, 1935, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This was Steinbeck's breakthrough book, it is a story of the Knights of the Round Table in the guise of paisanos, Goldstone & Payne A4c, Morrow 31, scarce. Very good. JD29420 | $3,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Tortilla Flat. Paris, Editions Rombaldi, n .d. (1963), first edition thus. This hardcover was issued without a dust jacket, it is a special French commemoratiive edition of Tortilla Flat translated by Brigitte V. Barbey, issued in conjunction with Steinbeck's having been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Rombaldi would annually print such a Nobel laureate-related work, the book includes two speeches delivered at Steinbeck's Nobel ceremonies as well as an introduction by Dr. Kjell Stromberg, followed by the text for Tortilla Flat and a Steinbeck bibliography, illustrated on the front cover in color by Picasso, also illustrated with a woodcut illustration of Steinbeck by Michel Cauvet, it also includes eight full-page color illustrations by Fontanarosa as well as an extra suite of eight full-page color lithographs bound in the rear, see Goldstone & Payne D182, this was the Jacob J. Foster copy. Fine. JD29487 | $350.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Tortilla Flat. NY, Viking, 1947, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is a "new" illustrated edition (not the "first" illustrated edition as so many seem to think since the true first edition was also illustrated), it reproduces 17 color paintings by Peggy Worthington who also illustrated the dust jacket as well as the front and rear pastedowns/endpapers, Goldstone & Payne A4d, see Morrow 32. Touch of binder's glue discoloration to endpapers, still this is a clean, bright, and fine copy. JD29820 | $300.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Tortilla Flat. NY, Viking, 1947, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is a "new" illustrated edition (not the "first" illustrated edition as so many seem to think since the true first edition was also illustrated), it reproduces 17 color paintings by Peggy Worthington who also illustrated the dust jacket as well as the front and rear pastedowns/endpapers, this copy is an unrecorded variant bound in black cloth printed in gold with green boards and without the front cover in-set illustration, this variant not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, see Morrow 32. Fine in a jacket with a bit of wear at the extremities. JD29821 | $300.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Tortilla Flat. NY, Penguin Books, June 1946, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 599, front cover illustration by Jonas, book illustrated by Ruth Gannett, Goldstone & Payne A4l, Morrow 35, scarce. Aged and some lamination peel, else fine. JD29822 | $35.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Steinbeck, John. Tortilla Flat. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. A-9, just the ninth title issued in this important series, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this book wasn't in the Adrian Goldstone collection, cited as Goldstone & Payne A4k via the University of Texas copy (and giving a c.1944 date), with a note about the author at the end, not recorded by Morrow, this is one of the more difficult ASE titles. Very good. JD33978 | $150.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Troopship. Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, March 1944, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 67-70, condensed, text from The New York Herald-Tribune, Goldstone & Payne C54, not recorded by Morrow. Very fine. JD29123 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Trust Your Luck. NY, Saturday Review, January 12, 1957, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 42-44, Goldstone & Payne C142, not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus. JD29212 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Two for a Penny. Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, August 1940, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 9-12, text from The Grapes of Wrath, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine. JD29110 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Typed Letter Signed. Los Gatos, John Steinbeck, January 5, 1938, first edition. This two-page letter in reality is the manuscript for a primary first edition by this Pulitzer/Nobel Prize-winning author, the book in question is titled The First Watch, cited in the Steinbeck bibliography as Goldstone & Payne A26a, Morrow 199 and 200, published by The House of Books (Louis Henry and Marguerite Cohn) printed by the Ward Ritchie Press in 1947 in an edition limited to 60 copies (plus a few over-runs) as a Christmas gift, 50 copies were for their use while the first 10 numbered copies with an envelope similarly numbered were designated for Steinbeck himself, the lengthy letter (eight paragraphs, a total of 69 lines) is addressed to Arnold Gingrich, editor of "Esquire," thanking him for the gift of a watch which, as it turns out, was the first watch given him, the letter is full of Steinbeck's usual humor, he writes, "I am swathed in a kind of wonder and in a little fear. I am quite sure you could not have known that in me you had probably the most profound, double -barrelled, synchro-mesh,watch tragedy the world has even known," he goes on how he anticipated a watch as a gift when he was near graduation from grammar school "when Elgin and Waltham were explaining in full pages the remoteness of success possibility to a watchless person, I must admit that a little hope flickered. And so I graduated --- and I got a signet ring," he goes on, "I hopeMy grades in high school indicate a high degree of introspection and brooding rather than a low I. Q. In my bitterness I put them down simply to the fact that I had no watch," his anticipation was crushed when he received a waterman's pen and pencil set for graduating high school, then he went to college, he writes, "By that time my time sense was so shriveled that it effected all my values, my morals, my thirst, my appetites and my politics," he goes on, "I knew that if I graduated I might get a watch because there were the advertisements again, and this time they made no bones about people who tried to buck the system without Elgins and Walthams. I just didn't have the nerve. I didn't graduate," once again there was no watch, except for this one from Gingrich, he writes, "I wonder if such things always come too late. I wonder if I can go back. I wonder for that matter if I can tell time!" included with Steinbeck's letter are two letters from the Cohns to David Heyler, husband (and book collector) of the daughter of Steinbeck's youngest sister, Mary, the first, dated March 27, 1953, explains the origin of The First Watch, Marguerite Cohn writes, "We purchased a collection of Steinbeck firsts and included therewith was a typed letter signed (which we still own) which constituted the manuscript for our booklet. We thought it was worth preserving in a more permanent form and approached Mr. Steinbeck for his permission," the letter goes on to quote Heyler other Steinbeck items after which she writes "Someday when you get ready to publish your bibliography let us have your list of items and we shall check without records to see if there is anything lacking and we are sure our collectors would lend you the item for you to collate," the second letter, signed in full by Mrs. Cohn, dated May 3, 1957, was written after Heyler and the Cohns had finally met, she sends another copy of The First Watch ($15!!!) and sends on approval "the original Steinbeck letter to Gingrich which is the manuscript of The First Watch. The price written in the corner is in my husband's writing but I will give you 10% off making it $45 if it interests you, see Steinbeck: A Life in Letters pages 151-152 which reprints the letter in a truncated form. All three letters are folded for mailing and include some markings and notations plus a few paperclip marks, overall very good. JD36836 | $8,500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Uncollected Stories of John Steinbeck. Tokyo, Nan'un-do Co., Ltd., 1986, first edition, first printing, wrappers. Softcover. With its covering dust jacket featuring a picture of a very young John Steinbeck aboard his red pony with his sister, Mary, edited and with notes by Kiyoshi Nakayama, it includes His Father, The Summer Before, How Edith McGillcuddy Met R. L. Stevenson, Reunion at the Quiet Hotel, The Miracle of Tepayac, The Gifts of Iban, and The Time the Wolves Ate the Vice-Principal, with photo illustrations and Japanese annotations (the stories are all in English), Nakayama also provides commentary, this copy Signed by Nakayama. Nearly fine. JD33882 | $200.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Vanderbilt Clinic. NY, Presbyterian Hospital, 1947, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A very scarce pamphlet written by Steinbeck about this New York hospital that apparently had served his family well, even the hospital itself doesn't own a copy, laid in loosely is a memorandum about this pamphlet signed by the hospital president, Charles P. Cooper, this is one of the more elusive of all Steinbeck "A" items, Goldstone & Payne A24a, Morrow 187, but neither record this memorandum, the whole is now housed in a custom clam-shell case. The memorandum is aged and quite brittle, but the book itself is fine. JD30030 | $950.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Steinbeck, John. Viva Zapata!. Hollywood, Script City, n.d. (c.1985), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. This is a photo-copy of the final shooting script dated May 16, 1951, Steinbeck wrote the screenplay, the film starred Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, and Anthony Quinn who won an Oscar for best supporting actor for this film, the film was directed by Elia Kazan, this item wasn't in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne E18, see Morrow 551(c). "VIVA ZAPATA" written in ink on bottom edge, else fine in the Script City stiff front and rear covers with binding clasps. JD28186 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Viva Zapata!. NY, Viking Compass, 1975, first edition, first printing, wrappers. Softcover. Includes Steinbeck's original screenplay (which is generally considered his best literature written after The Grapes of Wrath) and expert commentary by editor Robert E. Morsberger, includes frontispiece photo of Zapata as well as photos from the 1952 20th Century-Fox film which starred Marlon Brando, this copy Inscribed and Signed by Morsberger. Fine. JD30160 | $150.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Voice of Authors: Noted Writers Record Their Own Work. Chicago, Life, October 12, 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 129-130, 132, 134, includes an extract from his short story, Johnny Bear, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne C96, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29169 | $30.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Voices of Authors: Noted Writers Record Their Own Work. Chicago, Life, October 12, 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Article about the Columbia Literary Series in which 12 different authors read from their own works, includes an extract from John Steinbeck's short story, Johnny Bear, text from The Long Valley, pages 129-130, 132, 134, Goldstone & Payne C96, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD28471 | $20.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. "We Don't Want To Be America's Colony". Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, November 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 18-23, condensed from Collier's, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, scarce. Fine. JD29154 | $20.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. We're Holding Our Own. London, Lilliput, November 1955, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. First appearance of this piece, but not the first appearance in a "man's" magazine by Steinbeck, pages18-19, later reprinted in the April 1958 issue of Playboy with a new title, The Short-Short Story of Mankind, Goldstone & Payne C128, Morrow 396, scarce. Very good plus. JD29068 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Who Speaks for America?. Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, April 1954, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Page 86, text from The New York Herald-Tribune, this was an Advance Copy, so stamped by Reader's Digest, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine. JD29171 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Women Warriors. Philadelphia, Forum and Column Review, August 1943, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 64-66, this periodical reprinted articles from a variety of other publications, this Steinbeck piece was reprinted from his column in the New York Herald Tribune, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good. JD29107 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Working Days The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath 1938-1941. n.p. (NY), Viking, 1989, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy, an unrevised and unpublished proof that, with a few exceptions, is close to the finished hardcover book, edited by Robert DeMott, then director of the Steinbeck Research Center at San Jose State University, DeMott remains one of the best and most readable of all the major Steinbeck scholars, includes DeMott's preface and his lengthy and informative introduction in addition to Steinbeck's journals leading up to and right after his writing of The Grapes of Wrath in an attempt "to map the actual working days and hours" of his masterpiece. Some sunning to spine, else fine. JD35535 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Writer's Mail. London, Punch, November 2, 1955, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 512-513, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Near fine. JD29197 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Your Only Weapon Is Your Work. San Jose, Steinbeck Research Center, Feb. 27, 1985, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. One of 500 numbered copies edited by Dr. Robert DeMott, this is a letter from Steinbeck to family friend and fellow writer Dennis Murphy, with a prospectus for the book laid in loosely, issued on what would have been Steinbeck's 83rd birthday as a fund-raiser for the Steinbeck Research Center at San Jose State University. As new, unread. JD736 | $100.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Zapata. NY, Penguin Books, 1993, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy, an uncorrected proof, edited and with commentary by Zapata expert/scholar Robert E. Morsberger, the book includes not only Zapata the Little Tiger (earlier published as a fine press item by The Yolla Bolly Press), but also reprints Steinbeck's original screenplay for the film Viva Zapata!, this "narrative" and the shooting script complement each other, it also includes Morsberger's introductory essay, Emiliano Zapata the Man, the Myth, and the Mexican Revolution, the appendix includes a note by Morsberger on Steinbeck's script, the film's credits, copy about Steinbeck's screenplays and productions, and a list of Steinbeck films with bibliography, very few copies of this proof were produced, this copy is Signed and dated by Morsberger in the year of publication. Fine. JD30162 | $150.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Zapata. Covelo, The Yolla Bolly Press, 1991, first trade edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with the publisher's original slipcase, an 8X12-inch small folio, includes 18 woodcut illustrations by Karin Wikstrom, Steinbeck wrote the screenplay for the 1952 film titled Viva Zapata! that starred Marlon Brando, but before he wrote the screenplay, he wrote a "treatment" for the film, dated April 1949 and titled Zapata (The Little Tiger), it consisted of 337 typewritten pages, the first 90 of which were his introduction with the history and culture of Mexico, the treatment had no camera directions so it isn't a screenplay, but it is written in a dramatic format with dialogue, scene descriptions, and asides on the people and countryside, the binding for this fine press item is hand-made Japanese paper over boards with a buckram spine and corners, the slipcase is buckram over archival boards, this is No. 75 of 190 numbered copies Signed by Wikstrom and issued for sale (Nos. 51-67 were reserved by the publisher, while the first 50 copies comprised the de luxe edition). Fine, unread. JD30165 | $850.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] (Steinbeck, John). American Authors. McLean, Yankee Ingenuities, 1991, first edition. A two-color poster, 24X36 inches, which shows a picture or portrait of 12 American authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, etc., including John Steinbeck, it also includes a brief extract from The Grapes of Wrath. Rolled, never folded, fine. JD28343 | $25.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] (Steinbeck, John). ...and have you read. Stockton, Gardner's Book Shop, n.d. (c.1940), first edition. This bookmark leads with a note for (The) Grapes of Wrath, followed by the same question (and have you read) for All This, And Heaven Too, Rebecca, Inside Asia, and others. Fine. JD30655 | $25.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] (Steinbeck, John). Classic Book Cards. Century City/Merchantville, Biblioctopus/Between the Covers, Dec. 1998, first edition. A collaboration to produce a "catalogue" of rare and collectible books for sale done in the manner of a set of baseball cards, each item offered has its own card measuring c.2.5X3.5 inches, the front of which shows a color illustration of the item offered with the verso indicating the book's "statistics" ala a baseball card and text about the book (player?), one card is a checklist of the 76 items offered, the cards are laid into a card stock cover done in the manner of a book bound in three-quarters leather, the publisher's describe this unique set as "A randomly ordered selection of classic books offered as a wannabe way-cool joint project," housed in a plastic snap-case. As new. JD28885 | $20.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] (Steinbeck, John). Of Mice and Men. Anaheim, Mark56 Records, n.d. (c.1973), first edition. This is a two-record set that presents the original motion picture soundtrack for the film that starred Lon Chaney, Jr., Burgess Meredith, and Betty Field, it also includes the film dialogue, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or the Morrow catalogue. Fine in shrink-wrap. JD28361 | $50.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] (Steinbeck, John). Of Mice and Men. NY, Longacre Theatre, May 2014, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. This is the "Playbill" of this new production that starred James Franco and Chris O'Dowd, with a Who's Who brief biographies of the cast. Fine. JD31712 | $10.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] (Steinbeck, John). Photograph. n.p. (NY), United Press International, October 25, 1962, first edition. A c.6X9-inch b&w photo of author John Steinbeck and his wife Elaine in New York after it was announced that he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, text that accompanies the photo is taped to the verso of the photo citing UPI photo credit. Fine. JD28311 | $100.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] (Steinbeck, John). Photograph. Stockholm, United Press International, December 10, 1962, first edition. A c.8X6-inch b&w photo of Steinbeck receiving his Nobel Prize for Literature from Sweden's King Gustav Adolf in Stockholm's Concert Hall, text about the event is taped to the verso of the photo which gives a UPI Radio Telephoto credit, the text indicates that Steinbeck's prize consisted of a check for $50,043, a diploma, and a gold medal, it also notes that Steinbeck was accompanied by his wife, Elaine. Fine. JD28312 | $100.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] (Steinbeck, John). Photograph. NY, United Press International, January 6, 1963, first edition. This is a wonderful photograph of two literary giants, John Steinbeck and Carl Sandburg, on the occasion of Sandburg's 85th birthday, the party was at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, although the two men were great friends, Steinbeck looks as if he's about to bite off the head of Sandburg who looks as serene as always, c.8.5X6.5 inches, UPI text about the photo is affixed to the verso which also carries the UPI photo credit. Fine. JD28313 | $150.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] (Steinbeck, John). Pipe Dream. n.p. (NY), RCA Victor, n.d. (c.1955), first edition. This is an original cast recording of Pipe Dream which was adapted from Steinbeck's novel, Sweet Thursday, into this Broadway musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, that play starred Helen Traubel, William Johnson, and Judy Tyler who is finally credited on the album cover, RCA Victor LOC-1023, liner notes by Rudolph Elie, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or the Morrow catalogue. Previous owner's name to back of album cover, record is fine. JD28364 | $125.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] (Steinbeck, John). Pipe Dream. n.p. (NY), RCA Victor, n.d. (c.1955), first edition. This is an original cast recording of Pipe Dream which was adapted from Steinbeck's novel, Sweet Thursday, into this Broadway musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, that play starred Helen Traubel, William Johnson, and Judy Tyler who is finally credited on the album cover, RCA Victor LOC-1097, liner notes by Rudolph Elie, this item wasn't in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne G55, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD28365 | $125.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] (Steinbeck, John). Poster. Seattle, Western Printing Company, n.d. (1943), first edition. This c.18X24-inch poster advertises that "John Steinbeck writes about the little man in the war" in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer during World War II, the top of the poster is dominated by his name and a likeness of Steinbeck, the bottom half advertises his writing "Now in the P. I," not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Age-toned along edges, else clean, bright, and fine, now housed in a black steel and glass frame. JD28310 | $375.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] (Steinbeck, John). The Grapes of Wrath. Franklin Centre, The Franklin Library, 1975, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This is a prospectus for the Franklin Library's edition of this classic, it includes quite a bit about both the novel and Steinbeck himself, illustrated with photos, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD29970 | $10.00 |
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