Of Mice and Men
$52,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available
First edition · Signed
New York: Covici Friede, 1937. A family presentation copy inscribed by John Steinbeck on the front free endpaper to his sister Beth and her husband Eugene Ainsworth; Beth's bookplate to front pastedown. First edition, first printing, first issue with pendula on page 9, and a bullet between the two 8's of the page number on page 88. 186 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in orange and black, blue topstain. Near
- Printing: first
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