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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.
To a God Unknown. New York: Robert O. Ballou, (1933).

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$3,825 inc. premium

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.

To a God Unknown. New York: Robert O. Ballou, (1933).
8vo. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, pictorial endpapers, original just jacket, all designed by Mahlon Blaine, jacket lightly chipped at corners.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, 598 copies bound and sold. Steinbeck worked on the novel for five years, and "may have learned more about crafting long fiction from it than anything else he worked on during that period." A bright, clean copy of a scarce issue. Goldstone & Payne A3a.

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