John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, 1939
NY: Viking Press
$ 3,500.00
Joseph Conrad
The Rover, 1923
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company
One of 377 copies. Signed by Conrad.
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First edition. Conrad's final completed novel, set in the south of France and a vast commentary on the shifting, and often conflicting, dynamics of the early 19th-century Mediterranean. The overarching...
First edition. Conrad's final completed novel, set in the south of France and a vast commentary on the shifting, and often conflicting, dynamics of the early 19th-century Mediterranean. The overarching narrative concentrates on the inescapability of violence, but woven in is a retelling of the myth of Acis and Galatea. Bound in quarter blue paper with pale paper over boards, with gilt title device to upper cover and single gilt rules along spine edge. Light overall soiling to covers, mild bumping to corners, else near fine in original glassine and blue paper wrapper, this also near fine. Housed in additional blue cloth jacket and custom slipcase.
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Ely CulbertsonTotal Peace. What Makes Wars and How to Organize Peace, 1943Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co.Author's own copy, inscribed to him by Milo. J. Sutliff, who was director and executive vice president of Doubleday & Co. from 1936 to 1948. Also inscribed, a day prior, by the printer, H. C. Konther, who notes that this copy is the first off the press. The rear free endpaper shows a stop-press correction.$ 175.00
