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The Red Pony
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Aurora, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
The Red Pony - John Steinbeck (1945 1st Illustrated Edition Vintage Hardcover Rogers-Kellogg-Stillson) Children's Classic Episodic Novella Short Story
Illustrations by Wesley Dennis. Copyright 1945 by The Viking Press (New York). First illustrated edition as stated on the copyright page, as it does NOT have a BOMC deboss dot on the back. One of three printing variants, this is Variant Two of the illustrated edition as it printed by Rogers-Kellogg-Stillson, Inc. and bound by Kingsport Press, Inc.
Cardboard slipcase has heavy signs of wear, including spots, stains (including a black spot on the illustration), worn-through corners and edges, and a large crack that runs the length of the rear of the slipcase.
Beige hardcovers show some wear such as spine lean, bumped corners and spine head & tail, a spot to the rear board, light scratches, and shelfwear. Top edge shows a spot where there was excessive adhesive used on the front pastedown, which bled onto the top edge of pages. Previous owner's name on the front pastedown, there does not appear to be any other writing. While the slipcase is in poor condition, the book itself is in Very Good Plus (VG+) condition.
Synopsis
"The Red Pony" is an episodic novella written by American writer John Steinbeck in 1933. The first three chapters were published in magazines from 1933–1936, and the full book was published in 1937 by Viking Penguin. The stories in the book are tales of a boy named Jody Tiflin. The book has four different stories about Jody and his life on his father's California ranch.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bronze Anthology LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1207
- Title
- The Red Pony
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Illustrator
- Wesley Dennis
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Illustrated Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- The Red Pony, John Steinbeck, 1945, 1st Illustrated Edition, Vintage, Hardcover, Rogers-Kellogg-Stillson, Children's Classic, Episodic Novella, Short Story,
- Bookseller catalogs
- 20th Century Fiction; Children's Books; First Edition;
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Aurora, Colorado
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Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Deboss
- An imprinted decoration or mark on the outside cover of a book. Publishers will press a design or mark into a book's cover for...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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