The Red Pony
by Steinbeck, John
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
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Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1945. Book. Illus. by Dennis, Wesley. Fine. Hardcover. Lovely copy in near fine tan paperboard slipcase with pasted plate. Apparently First Illustrated Edition. Illustrated End Papers. 9-3/4" x 6-5/8". 131 pp. Tan cloth with pasted plate on cover. Gold gilt lettering on blue background on spine. Endpapers decorated with beautiful water color painting by Wesley Dennis. Printed by Zeese-Wilkinson Co. According to The Beyer Collection at Princeton University Library, this is one of 3 variant copies published in 1945..
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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- Bookseller
- Camp Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000137
- Title
- The Red Pony
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Illustrator
- Dennis, Wesley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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