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STEINBECK'S OWN SIGNED COPY OF HIS NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW APPEARANCES, FEATURING THE RED PONY. The North American Review, volumes 236, numbers 5 and 6; 237 number 4 (November and December 1933, and April 1934).
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STEINBECK'S OWN SIGNED COPY OF HIS NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW APPEARANCES, FEATURING THE RED PONY.
The North American Review, volumes 236, numbers 5 and 6; 237 number 4 (November and December 1933, and April 1934).
3 volumes bound as one. 4to (245 x 170 mm). Bound in brown-paper covered boards, upper cover of first issue and lower cover of last issue used as pastedowns. Leaves toned and thumbed, front joint cracked; covers with shelfwear, toning at extremities, 40 mm losses at head and tail of spine.
Provenance: John and Carol Steinbeck (ownership signature and stamp); by descent.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE RED PONY, AUTHOR'S COPY, signed ("John Steinbeck" and "J.E. Steinbeck") to title page/upper covers of each volume, and additionally stamped "This book belongs to Carol and John Steinbeck" to title page of November 1933 issue, and with a pencil and watercolor drawing of a naked woman reading to the upper cover of the book, with Heyler's notes indicating that the art was done by Carol Steinbeck.
When Steinbeck's agents placed "The Red Pony" with The North American Review, the writer and his wife Carol were ecstatic with the $90 royalty check. The three issues of the NAR bound here each feature a Steinbeck story: "The Red Pony" (November 1933); "The Great Mountains" (December 1933); and "The Murder" (April 1934). A good number of books bearing the "Carol and John Steinbeck" ownership stamp made their way to David Heyler's collection, likely as part of the "incunabula" that Steinbeck gifted to his nephew-in-law in the mid-1950s. Goldstone & Payne C9, C10, C11.
3 volumes bound as one. 4to (245 x 170 mm). Bound in brown-paper covered boards, upper cover of first issue and lower cover of last issue used as pastedowns. Leaves toned and thumbed, front joint cracked; covers with shelfwear, toning at extremities, 40 mm losses at head and tail of spine.
Provenance: John and Carol Steinbeck (ownership signature and stamp); by descent.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE RED PONY, AUTHOR'S COPY, signed ("John Steinbeck" and "J.E. Steinbeck") to title page/upper covers of each volume, and additionally stamped "This book belongs to Carol and John Steinbeck" to title page of November 1933 issue, and with a pencil and watercolor drawing of a naked woman reading to the upper cover of the book, with Heyler's notes indicating that the art was done by Carol Steinbeck.
When Steinbeck's agents placed "The Red Pony" with The North American Review, the writer and his wife Carol were ecstatic with the $90 royalty check. The three issues of the NAR bound here each feature a Steinbeck story: "The Red Pony" (November 1933); "The Great Mountains" (December 1933); and "The Murder" (April 1934). A good number of books bearing the "Carol and John Steinbeck" ownership stamp made their way to David Heyler's collection, likely as part of the "incunabula" that Steinbeck gifted to his nephew-in-law in the mid-1950s. Goldstone & Payne C9, C10, C11.