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THE RED PONY by STEINBECK, John - 1945: [Inscribed to Jules Buck]

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THE RED PONY: [Inscribed to Jules Buck]

by STEINBECK, John

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New York: Viking Press, 1945. First edition thus. Near Fine. Large 8vo. Cloth. First illustrated edition. A near fine example with trace rubbing and the attractive bookplate of Joyce and Jules Buck to pictorial ffep. In very good slipcase, neatly split at lower edge - the tan variant (see Goldstone & Payne A9c.2). Housed in a handsome green cloth clamshell case. Warmly and somewhat cryptically INSCRIBED on title page beneath the image of the Red Pony by Steinbeck to the wife of film executive and Steinbeck collaborator/friend Jules Buck: "For Joyce with love / John Steinbeck / Horses aren't much for smartness - but they're nice. Maybe that's why - JS." Additionally signed by Steinbeck to the page preceding half-title.

Jules Buck was perhaps best known as the cameraman for John Huston's WWII documentary The Battle of San Pietro, still widely considered one of the finest examples of battlefield film-making. After the war he settled in Hollywood where he helped produce the classic film-noir The Killers (1946) and the influential detective story The Naked City (1948). After founding the brief-lived Horizon Pictures, Buck moved to 20th Century-Fox where in 1949 Darryl Zanuck asked him to assist Steinbeck in finalizing a draft of his long-awaited Zapata screenplay. Buck and Steinbeck "liked each other immediately" (Benson, John Steinbeck, Writer 651-52) and worked for a month on the script, with Buck first serving as Steinbeck's sounding-board and then typing "at John's battered old IBM typewriter" (652) while Steinbeck dictated. When they finished, Steinbeck was so pleased and appreciative of the results he suggested "'It should be put down by John Steinbeck AND Jules Buck'" (653), a suggestion Buck rejected. The Bucks and Steinbecks subsequently became lifelong friends with Jules and John considering a further collaboration and the two couples often visiting each other. A wonderful association and an uncommonly effusive inscription for Steinbeck, one especially apropos for this particular book.
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  • Publisher Viking Press
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1945

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