Accession number
PML 187183
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Published
New York : The Viking Press, 1941.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Library's copy housed in marbled clamshell box backed in green morocco.
Publisher's dummy of Steinbeck's Sea of Cortez, consisting of 16 sample pages of text (variously paged), including preliminaries, pages 9-12, and pages from the appendix, with the remainder of the textblock comprised of approximately 250 blank unnumbered leaves.
The text, layout, and binding of dummy differs from that of the published edition in numerous points; including differences in the subtitle, layout of t.p., blank t.p. verso with absence of copyright statement, and a statement regarding the illustrations on a leaf following the t.p.: There will be numour half-tone illustrations in black and 15 in full color.
Publisher's dummy of Steinbeck's Sea of Cortez, consisting of 16 sample pages of text (variously paged), including preliminaries, pages 9-12, and pages from the appendix, with the remainder of the textblock comprised of approximately 250 blank unnumbered leaves.
The text, layout, and binding of dummy differs from that of the published edition in numerous points; including differences in the subtitle, layout of t.p., blank t.p. verso with absence of copyright statement, and a statement regarding the illustrations on a leaf following the t.p.: There will be numour half-tone illustrations in black and 15 in full color.
Description
[16] p., followed by ca. 250 blank unumbered leaves ; 24 cm
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Original green cloth with proof dust jacket lacking text on flaps.
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