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TORTILLA FLAT INSCRIBED TO STEINBECK'S LITTLE SISTER, MARY. STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968. Tortilla Flat. New York: Covici Friede, 1935. image 1
TORTILLA FLAT INSCRIBED TO STEINBECK'S LITTLE SISTER, MARY. STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968. Tortilla Flat. New York: Covici Friede, 1935. image 2
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TORTILLA FLAT INSCRIBED TO STEINBECK'S LITTLE SISTER, MARY.
STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.
Tortilla Flat. New York: Covici Friede, 1935.

25 October 2023, 14:00 EDT
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TORTILLA FLAT INSCRIBED TO STEINBECK'S LITTLE SISTER, MARY.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968. Tortilla Flat. New York: Covici Friede, 1935.
8vo. Publisher's beige cloth lettered and decorated in blue, top edge blue, dust jacket. Some toning and offset to front pastedown and flyleaf from clippings, spine slightly cocked, head and tail of spine rubbed; jacket edges rubbed, panels lightly soiled.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, INSCRIBED on the free endpaper: "For Mary with Bill—with love / John Steinbeck." Laid into the book is a clipping from the LA Times, June 5, 1936, reporting that the novel has won the gold medal awarded by the Commonwealth Club of California for the best book of general literature by a California author published in 1935. Loosely structured as a modern Arthurian legend, Tortilla Flat was Steinbeck's first inarguable commercial and critical success. Goldstone & Payne A4b.

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