Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research

by John Steinbeck, E. F. Ricketts

$7,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Uncorrected proof of Steinbeck's account of a collecting expedition in the Gulf of California with his friend Edward Ricketts, a marine biologist. This is what Goldstone & Payne term the first edition, issue in wrappers, though this is in fact an advance copy of the first edition. Bound in brown paper wrappers with French flaps, typewritten label to front cover. Near Fine with light

• Binding: Wrappers

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