Knight's Gambit. by Faulkner, William

Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1985, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This is an extremely important study by a once-promising young native American scholar who, sadly, took his own life a few years ago, but who left the world of Steinbeck scholarship this landmark study and a number of other books, with this book Owens "examines how Steinbeck used this would-be Eden (California) to explore the moral bankruptcy of American society, to explore the corruption that lay beneath the beckoning surface of the American dream," this is a very scarce book that seldom comes on the market. Fine, with no fading along jacket spine as is so common with this book.

Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1983, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Includes a foreword by Norman Cousins, illustrated with photos by Leo Holub, also includes an afterword by Etulain, one of 2,000 copies, Colberg A30.1, this copy Signed by Stegner . Fine.

NY, Viking, 1950, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Third and last of his play/novelette experiments and easily the least accomplished and least understood, Steinbeck provides his own introduction to this play in story form, Goldstone & Payne A29a, Morrow 206. Fine in a very nearly fine jacket.

Aptos, Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs, 1970, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. One of only 150 copies printed at the Grace Hoper Press, text is by James D. Hart with a letter from Steinbeck used as frontispiece, it also includes Steinbeck's "translation" of a poem from the Ukranian into a language he created, Goldstone & Payne A45a, Morrow 279, this copy with the very white wrappers. Fine.

London, World Books, 1940, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover.. The jacket carries photos of the stars of the 20th Century-Fox film version in a circular or horseshow fashion, among those pictured are Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, Jane Darwell as Ma Joad, and John Carradine as Casy, a very scarce book, this book was not in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne A12k (cited via the Preston Beyer copy), not recorded by Morrow. Very good.

Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1985, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This is an extremely important study by a once-promising young native American scholar who, sadly, took his own life a few years ago, but who left the world of Steinbeck scholarship this landmark study and a number of other books, with this book Owens "examines how Steinbeck used this would-be Eden (California) to explore the moral bankruptcy of American society, to explore the corruption that lay beneath the beckoning surface of the American dream," this is a very scarce book that seldom comes on the market. Fine, with no fading along jacket spine as is so common with this book.

Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1983, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Includes a foreword by Norman Cousins, illustrated with photos by Leo Holub, also includes an afterword by Etulain, one of 2,000 copies, Colberg A30.1, this copy Signed by Stegner . Fine.

NY, Viking, 1950, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Third and last of his play/novelette experiments and easily the least accomplished and least understood, Steinbeck provides his own introduction to this play in story form, Goldstone & Payne A29a, Morrow 206. Fine in a very nearly fine jacket.

Aptos, Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs, 1970, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. One of only 150 copies printed at the Grace Hoper Press, text is by James D. Hart with a letter from Steinbeck used as frontispiece, it also includes Steinbeck's "translation" of a poem from the Ukranian into a language he created, Goldstone & Payne A45a, Morrow 279, this copy with the very white wrappers. Fine.

London, World Books, 1940, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover.. The jacket carries photos of the stars of the 20th Century-Fox film version in a circular or horseshow fashion, among those pictured are Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, Jane Darwell as Ma Joad, and John Carradine as Casy, a very scarce book, this book was not in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne A12k (cited via the Preston Beyer copy), not recorded by Morrow. Very good.