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Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1985, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This is an extremely important study by a once-promising young native American scholar who, sadly, took his own life a few years ago, but who left the world of Steinbeck scholarship this landmark study and a number of other books, with this book Owens "examines how Steinbeck used this would-be Eden (California) to explore the moral bankruptcy of American society, to explore the corruption that lay beneath the beckoning surface of the American dream," this is a very scarce book that seldom comes on the market. Fine, with no fading along jacket spine as is so common with this book.
Always Something to Do in Salinas. by Steinbeck, John
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Always Something to Do in Salinas.
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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.
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John Steinbeck's Re-Vision of America.
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Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature.
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Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1983, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Includes a foreword by Norman Cousins, illustrated with photos by Leo Holub, also includes an afterword by Etulain, one of 2,000 copies, Colberg A30.1, this copy Signed by Stegner . Fine.
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Burning Bright.
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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.
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The Winter of Our Discontent.
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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.
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I'll Be You And You Be Me.
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NY, Harper & Bros., 1954, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak internally as well as on both endpapers and dust jacket, with all the proper first edition points ($1.75 price on jacket with both 30-70 No. 5226A code on front jacket flap and No. 5227A code on rear jacket flap). A very pleasing copy.
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Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1985, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This is an extremely important study by a once-promising young native American scholar who, sadly, took his own life a few years ago, but who left the world of Steinbeck scholarship this landmark study and a number of other books, with this book Owens "examines how Steinbeck used this would-be Eden (California) to explore the moral bankruptcy of American society, to explore the corruption that lay beneath the beckoning surface of the American dream," this is a very scarce book that seldom comes on the market. Fine, with no fading along jacket spine as is so common with this book.
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Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature.
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Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1983, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Includes a foreword by Norman Cousins, illustrated with photos by Leo Holub, also includes an afterword by Etulain, one of 2,000 copies, Colberg A30.1, this copy Signed by Stegner . Fine.
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Burning Bright.
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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.
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The Winter of Our Discontent.
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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.
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I'll Be You And You Be Me.
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Always Something to Do in Salinas
by Steinbeck, John
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Bradenton, FL: Opuscula Press. Fine+. 1986. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A most handsome Limited edition in Very Fine condition. Hand bound in dark brown buckram over boards with a title label in contrasting tan. Rich textured text paper. This copy is numbered 22 of 300 limited edition copies. Hard to imagine a nicer copy; This article was first published in Holiday magazine in June, 1955, and was reprinted in the present format "as a service to Steinbeck collectors." It was part of a series of articles by famous writers on their home towns. Steinbeck recalls the Salinas (California) of his youth and it's growth into a populous city. (from the Introduction) ; 8vo .
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THE TIE MANS MIRACLE.
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New York: Morrow Junior Books., 1995. First edition.. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Stephen T. Johnson. Illustrated by Stephen T. Johnson. New York: Morrow Junior Books, (1995). First edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket. faint rumpling to the jacket, otherwise near fine. ISBN: 0688134645
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
by Engle, Joanna
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
by Cohen, Leonard
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New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Samuel The Seeker
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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Mr. Munchausen
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Mr. Munchausen .Used. Noyes, Platt & Company, Boston, 1901 First Edition. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL, . artist/author of the "Hole Book" series. Used. Very Good / No DJ if originally issued. Front cover illustration in good shape. All colour plates present and affixed to the binding. No dust jacket is included if issued. Tight binding, gutters intact. Pages are fairly bright. A nice copy. Readers should get a Bangs out of it. 180 pages plus adverts.
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The Seven Dials Mystery (A Midnite Mystery)
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The Seven Dials Mystery (Midnight Mysteries) 1944 Books, Inc. Stated 1st. Pr. Thus) RARE IN THIS EDITION. By Agatha Christie. USED. Good-/ No DJ. Black boards, gold titling on spine. Light pop bottle rings mar front board. Original copyright by Dodd, Mead 1929. Loose last gather has been neatly taped in. A clean copy. Summary: "When Gerald Wade died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping draught seven clocks appeared on the mantelpiece. Who put them there and had they any connection with the night club in Seven Dials? This is the mystery that Bill Eversleigh and Bundle and two other young people set out to investigate...".
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