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Lot 93

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.
Sweet Thursday. New York: Viking Press, [March], 1954.

4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
New York

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.

Sweet Thursday. New York: Viking Press, [March], 1954.
Tall 8vo (347 x 180 mm). Unrevised galley proof. Metal binding strip, blue paper covers, taped into additional card covers, upper cover hand-lettered, apparently by Steinbeck. Masking tape on backstrip peeling, light wear to covers, cellotape yellowed on title.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY OF THE ADVANCE PROOF, dated 3 months before official publication. Signed ("John Steinbeck") on the blue paper front cover which also functions as the title-page. It is additionally inscribed in block-lettered black marker (presumably by Steinbeck himself): "Salinas / Paris. To Cy & Ernie / this Edition consisting of One Copy is Dedicated" and on the front cover: "Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck / Edition—1 / March 1954." The recipients were Cy Feuer and Ernie Martin, the legendary producing duo who instigated the writing of Sweet Thursday by their interest in a Broadway musical sequel to Cannery Row.

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