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Nothing So Monstrous.

by Steinbeck, John.

$1,050 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

NY, Pynson Printers, Dec. 1936, first edition thus.. First separate printing of the Junius Maltby story from Steinbeck's second book, The Pastures of Heaven, bound with marbled boards and orange cloth spine, issued without jacket, one of only 370 copies, pen and ink drawings by Donald McKay, designed to be used as a Christmas gift for the use of Ben Abramson, Elmer Adler, Frederick B. Adams Jr., Edwin J. Beinecke, and Howard Mott, it includes Steinbeck's epilogue written especially for this book, Goldstone & Payne A2f, this copy has the printed colophon which indicates that this copy was prepared at the request of Elmer Adler for presentation to Patricia S. Huntington, Goldstone & Payne A2f, see Morrow 16. Edgewear, else fine.

  • Publisher: NY, Pynson Printers, Dec. 1936, first edition thus.
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: hardcover

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