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New York: Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. First Edition. First issue dust jacket with first edition statement at the bottom front jacket flap. Wraparound jacket art by Elmer Hader, whose work graced four Steinbeck titles. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, literature's lasting testament to the Great Depression, singled-out in his citation for the Nobel Prize decades later. Basis for the 1940 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Ford and supporting actress Jane Darwell won Academy Awards for their work. Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. Small tap on the top edge of the rear board. Jacket is lightly toned along the top edges of the flaps and spine, with a touch of rubbing on the flap folds and two tiny chips on the crown. An attractive copy. Ahearn APG 014d.

New York: Harper and Row, 1978. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First American Edition. Light fading at the spine and extremities, else just about Fine and unread in light green wrappers. A lovely copy of a scarce proof.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First UK Edition. Near Fine in red publisher's wrappers. Light fading to the top of the front panel, with fading and a few mild reading creases at the spine. An attractive copy of this set of short stories.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1917. First Edition. First Edition. Lewis' fourth book and his first work of serious fiction, the story of a woman working in a man's world, an early call for sexual equality in the workplace. Lewis would continue on to a successful and lasting career as one of the major American authors from the early to mid twentieth century. In 1930, he became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fine in a Very Good example of the scarce dust jacket. Light offsetting on the endpapers, else book is clean and fresh. Dust jacket evenly toned, with a chip to the crown affecting the "E" in "THE." With cello tape reinforcements along the edges and spine folds.

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Sigrid Undset's 1920 trilogy "Kristin Lavransdatter." The trilogy is the story of Kristin, a Norwegian living during the Middle Ages, the daughter of an affluent father, who, in difficult times, often found solace in her Catholicism. The popularity, as well as its accurate descriptions of Medieval life led to Undset being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Set in Norway. Green titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for author Sigrid Undset, and screenwriter Laurence W. Beilenson. 139 leaves, with last page of text numbered 137. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads.

N.p.: Theater-Verlag Kurt Desch, 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German play. Text in German. The first known dramatic production of Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun's 1892 novel "Mysterier," premiering at Oslo's National Theater in the summer of 1976. Whether the stage adaptation was done by Hamsun or another unnamed party is not clear. The novel was adapted a few years later into a Dutch film called "Mysteries" in 1978, starring Sylvia Kristel and Rutger Hauer. An itinerant stranger arrives in a small Norwegian coastal town and confuses the bourgeois locals with his strange behavior and spirited talk. Blue titled Theater-Verlag Kurt Desch wrappers, with credits for novelist Knut Hamsun. Title page present, with credits for novelist Knut Hamsun. 104 leaves, with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with light soil and creasing at the binding, side stapled.

N.p.: Rex Features, 1976. Vintage photograph of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning writer Saul Bellow sitting at his desk in 1976. 10 x 8 inches. Manuscript ink annotations on the top margin, noting Bellow's name, the year, and the name of photograph agency Rex Features, else Near Fine.