STEINBECK, John.
Of Mice and Men.
Of Mice and Men.
Stock Code 116778
New York, Covici-Friede, 1937.
presentation copy
Inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: 'For J. Norman Ingals / John Steinbeck '37'.The first issue of Steinbeck's classic novella about the struggles of two displaced migrant ranch workers, George and Lennie, in California during the Great Depression. One of 2500 copies. Scarce inscribed.
First edition, first printing, first issue (with 'pendula' on p.9, line 21, and a bullet between the two 8s of the page number on p.88), inscribed by the author; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's beige cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and orange, light spotting to cloth at spine and extremities, with the price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, light toning to spine (as often), mild rubbing and creasing to extremities; a near-fine copy housed in custom quarter leather and marble boards solander box.
Goldstone & Payne A8a.
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