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TORTILLA FLAT
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Covici | Friede, 1935. First edition. Octavo, 316pp. Hardcover without jacket. Bumping and shelf-wear. Moderate edge-wear to cloth-bound boards, including faint soiling to spine. Boards bowed. Blue top-stain. Front fly-leaf has been been cut from binding. Cracked between half-title and title page. Sticker to rear paste-down end page and rear fly-leaf. Binding shakes. Good copy only.
Shelve:
CASE #2
Spine is beige with blue text. 1229982. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Synopsis
Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California. The book portrays with great sympathy and humour a group of paisanos (fellows/countrymen), denouncing society by enjoying life and wine in the idyllic days after the end of the Great War and preceding U.S. prohibition. Tortilla Flat was made into a film in 1942. Steinbeck would later return to the some of the panhandling locals of Monterey (though not the Spanish paisanos of the Flat) in his novel Cannery Row (1945).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1229982
- Title
- TORTILLA FLAT
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Covici | Friede
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fly-Leaf
- ...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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