The Red Pony. by Steinbeck, John - 1937

8vo. New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937. 8vo, 81 pp., colophon. Original flexible linen boards with gray crossed lines, red lettering and pony device, untrimmed fore- and bottom edge, backstrip faded, internally fine, in the original titled and numbered slipcase. § First edition, number 144 of 699 copies signed by the author on the colophon. (It is estimated there were an additional 52 signed copies that were lettered.) Printed by Pynson Printers of New York. Bitter and moving episodes in the life of a young boy growing up on a northern California ranch, a classic in the literature of the West.