On The Makaloa Mat by London, Jack

NY, Pynson Printers, December 1936, first edition.. This hardcover with marbled boards and orange cloth spine is the first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story from Steinbeck's second book, The Pastures of Heaven, Goldstone & Payne A2f, see Morrow 16, issued here with a new title and an epilogue written especially for this book by Steinbeck, it is one of only 370 copies for presentation by a number of subscribers to be used as a Christmas gift, it includes pen and ink drawings by Donald McKay, this is a most interesting Association Copy made at the request of Rockwell Kent who has Signed his name on the presentation page where the requester's name was to have been inserted, Kent then added the word "himself" in the area where the presentee's name was to have been filled in, Kent was the "house" artist for the Pynson Printers, the book is also Signed by Elmer Adler, F. B. Adams, and John Winterich, Sally and Rockwell Kent's modest bookplate affixed to the front pastedown, now housed in Kent's… Read More

London, Heinemann, 1935, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This was Steinbeck's breakthrough book, it is a story of the Knights of the Round Table in the guise of paisanos, Goldstone & Payne A4c, Morrow 31, scarce. Very good.

n.p. (NY), Random House, 1964, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. A separate printing of this non-introduction that was in fact used as an introduction to a book by Ted Patrick entitled The Thinking Dog's Man, Steinbeck and Patrick were well-acquainted as he was the editor of "Holiday" magazine which often published Steinbeck, this promotional item a collection stopper, it is extremely scarce and seldom comes on the market, Goldstone & Payne A41a, Morrow 270. Vertical crease throughout, else fine.

Bronxville, privately printed, 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. First separate printing of this chapter from Steinbeck's big, rambling flawed masterpiece, Steinbeck writes beautifully how there is only one story -- the struggle between good and evil, one of 125 copies printed on the hand-press by Valenti Angelo, bound in limp buff wrappers, this is variant 2 with the title page containing a red and black rectangular design of leafy and bare branches between the title and "PRIVATELY PRINTED 1952" with the limitation notice on page 10 (although the pages are unnumbered), the variants are believed to be trial copies, no priority has been determined, Goldstone & Payne A32d, not recorded by Morrow, this was John DePol's copy with his spare bookplate, DePol (1913-2004) was an artist and one of America's foremost printmakers and wood engravers, his prints can be found in the permanent collections of many libraries and museums, he contributed to publications by the Allen Press, Red Ozier Press,… Read More

NY, Harper & Row, 1978, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Signed by Hillerman, this is a Joe Leaphorn mystery set in the northern Navajo reservation, Hieb bibliography A5a, it includes 22 original b&w drawings by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin, including one of Leaphorn, only a handful of these early Hillerman titles were so illustrated, very scarce thus. Lettering on the book's spine fading, as usual, else fine.

NY, Pynson Printers, December 1936, first edition.. This hardcover with marbled boards and orange cloth spine is the first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story from Steinbeck's second book, The Pastures of Heaven, Goldstone & Payne A2f, see Morrow 16, issued here with a new title and an epilogue written especially for this book by Steinbeck, it is one of only 370 copies for presentation by a number of subscribers to be used as a Christmas gift, it includes pen and ink drawings by Donald McKay, this is a most interesting Association Copy made at the request of Rockwell Kent who has Signed his name on the presentation page where the requester's name was to have been inserted, Kent then added the word "himself" in the area where the presentee's name was to have been filled in, Kent was the "house" artist for the Pynson Printers, the book is also Signed by Elmer Adler, F. B. Adams, and John Winterich, Sally and Rockwell Kent's modest bookplate affixed to the front pastedown, now housed in Kent's… Read More

London, Heinemann, 1935, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This was Steinbeck's breakthrough book, it is a story of the Knights of the Round Table in the guise of paisanos, Goldstone & Payne A4c, Morrow 31, scarce. Very good.

n.p. (NY), Random House, 1964, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. A separate printing of this non-introduction that was in fact used as an introduction to a book by Ted Patrick entitled The Thinking Dog's Man, Steinbeck and Patrick were well-acquainted as he was the editor of "Holiday" magazine which often published Steinbeck, this promotional item a collection stopper, it is extremely scarce and seldom comes on the market, Goldstone & Payne A41a, Morrow 270. Vertical crease throughout, else fine.

Bronxville, privately printed, 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. First separate printing of this chapter from Steinbeck's big, rambling flawed masterpiece, Steinbeck writes beautifully how there is only one story -- the struggle between good and evil, one of 125 copies printed on the hand-press by Valenti Angelo, bound in limp buff wrappers, this is variant 2 with the title page containing a red and black rectangular design of leafy and bare branches between the title and "PRIVATELY PRINTED 1952" with the limitation notice on page 10 (although the pages are unnumbered), the variants are believed to be trial copies, no priority has been determined, Goldstone & Payne A32d, not recorded by Morrow, this was John DePol's copy with his spare bookplate, DePol (1913-2004) was an artist and one of America's foremost printmakers and wood engravers, his prints can be found in the permanent collections of many libraries and museums, he contributed to publications by the Allen Press, Red Ozier Press,… Read More

NY, Harper & Row, 1978, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Signed by Hillerman, this is a Joe Leaphorn mystery set in the northern Navajo reservation, Hieb bibliography A5a, it includes 22 original b&w drawings by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin, including one of Leaphorn, only a handful of these early Hillerman titles were so illustrated, very scarce thus. Lettering on the book's spine fading, as usual, else fine.