Cannery Row
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/Good
- Seller
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Plainfield, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: The Viking Press, 1945. First edition, second issue, in yellow cloth boards with dark blue lettering on front and spine. -- Back cover shadowed around edges, with sharply defined light rectangular area presumably protected by neighboring book on shelf. Spine a bit darkened. A hint of vague darkening around edges in front. Interior tight and clean, with just a hint of uniform tanning. Overall Very Good Minus condition. -- Dust jacket edgeworn with some small chips out at spine head/tail; beginning to darken a bit around edges in back. DJ is in Good condition, protected in clear plastic. -- 208 pp.. First Edition, Second Issue. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
Cannery Row is the waterfront street in the New Monterey section of Monterey, California, USA. It is the site of a number of now-defunct sardine canning factories. The street name, formerly a nickname for Ocean View Avenue, became official in January 1958 to honor John Steinbeck and his famous novel Cannery Row.
Reviews
On Dec 29 2015, a reader said:
After 25 years since the last time I read this book, its like being back on Cannery row all over again- the smells, the sounds, they joys and sorrow of the characters.
In this work, Steinbeck put forth some of his finest writing. On the surface, the language and the story seem simple but only deceptively so. There are many subtleties and nuances that lend so much flavor and a sense of presence to this fine work.
This is definitely one of my most favorite books. Highly recommended!
On Sep 5 2011, West of Eden Books said:
Although John Steinbeck wrote many great works of American literature Cannery Row is my favourite by far. This short tale of the inhabitants of a stretch of industrial property on the coast of California is a rich little comic gem that Steinbeck lifts briefly into the Summer sun so that we might glimpse a society different from, but not entirely unlike, our own.Though it's not socially revolutionary like The Grapes of Wrath, nor the genesis of a Hollywood blockbuster like East of Eden, it is told with such precision and with such affection and respect for its ragtag cast of characters that the reader feels privileged to have met them.Mack and the boys are not bums and drunkards but "gentlemen and philosophers united by a common dislike of a steady job and a mutual feeling for the pleasures of living according to their lights" and Doc, the main character, is "half-Christ and and half-satyr" as he collects his marine and terrestrial fauna for sale to scientific laboratories while unofficially ministering to the sick puppies, lost children and unhappy souls on the Row.You must be somewhat slipshod in your own morals to like this book, it's not for the ramrod stiff among us. As Lewis Gannet wrote: "It does not rank cleanliness next to godliness, and its everyday vocabulary takes four-letter words in its Elizabethan stride". And there are whores, but you must be able to see them as sisters and daughters with dreams of their own, and better places to be in time.And so I invite you, after the busy canneries shut their doors in the late afternoon. Come out with the boys to sit on the rusty pipes in the vacant lot, watch as the girl's emerge from Dora's "for a bit of sun if there is any", cross the street to Lee Chong's for a couple of quarts of beer and take them over to Western Biological to see if Doc is in.
On Oct 26 2009, Muzzle said:
I loved the book, it brings the reader back to a simpler time when the world wasn't participating in the throes of a 40 yard dash.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Country Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29577
- Title
- Cannery Row
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Issue
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Fiction, Novels, First Editions, Literature, Literary
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Country Bookshop
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Plainfield, Vermont
About The Country Bookshop
60,000 books, old postcards, and assorted paper ephemera in an old house located in the rural town of Plainfield, VT. We have been in business since 1974. We're open 7 days a week from 10 until 5.
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