Accession number
PML 187161
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Published
New York : Viking Press, 1942.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition, issue in cloth, with larger period between "talk" and "this" line 11, page 112. Cf. Goldstone and Payne.
"First published in March 1942"--Title page verso.
Library's copy housed in green-gray cloth clamshell box.
"First published in March 1942"--Title page verso.
Library's copy housed in green-gray cloth clamshell box.
Description
188 pages ; 20 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: For Sue Sadow, outrageous Sadow, a blood sucker, a leech on the mother tongue. I'd be ashamed to make my lining circum[?] using the language. [rudimentary drawing of a woman's pelvic region and heart with an arrow of a man's genitals], John Steinbeck.
Provenance
Signed to Sue Sadow; Carter Burden.
Binding
Blue cloth with pictorial dust jacket by Frank Lieberman.
Classification
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