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The Red Pony
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Viking, 1945. First edition, first illustrated edition. Variant 2, printed by Rogers-Kellogg-Stillson, bound by Kingsport Press (Goldstone & Payne). Published without dust jacket. Published NY: Viking, 1945, first printing. 8vo., 131pp., with color illustrations by Wesley Dennis. Gray cloth with gilt spine titles set in dark blue block, blue cover panels with pictorial inset of pony, all edges tinted dark blue, illustrated endpapers. Small splash stain on front edge of front cover, name in small hand on front fly leaf, else fine. A brilliant copy. Lacking the slip case. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008981
- Title
- The Red Pony
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1945
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
Glossary
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
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