Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts. Sea of Cortez. Viking, 1941.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Excellent copy.First Edition in Teal Boards.Scarce Book.Without Jacket.Light wear to heel. Journal of Ricketts & Steinbeck in Sea of Cortez.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$399.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is green cloth with silver lettering on the front cover and spine. Book has some light edge wear and bumped corners. Previous owners name is on the inside of the front cover. Map endpapers. The top edge is dyed with dark orange publisher's stain. Illustrated with both color and black & white photographs. The title page has a date on it, else book is clean & bright. Binding is sound.
Seller: Ramblin Rose Books, Bremerton, WA, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John. SEA OF CORTEZ. The Viking Press, New York, 1941.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 598 A leisurely journal of travel and research. Not a novel but much on trand research of the area marine animals. Photos in color. Good fon foxing, interesting letter tipped in, scarce
Seller: Antiques & Art, Piedmont, SD, U.S.A.
John Steinbeck & E.F. Ricketts. Sea of Cortez. NY: Viking, 1941.
Price: US$479.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. Near Fine (very solid; just a slight browning/soiling to page edges) in a Good-plus to Very Good minus original dust jacket (moderate rubbing/tears and chips to edges - nothing that affects any of the writing on covers or spine - $5.00 price on flap intact). Steinbeck the novelist and Ricketts the biologist joined forces in a unique "fishing trip". This is the personal story of their expedition - a leisurely journal of travel and research.
Seller: Eric E Carr, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
John Steinbeck. Sea of Cortez. Viking, 1941.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Turquoise boards, still quite bright. Light shelfwear at head and heel of spine, two corners bumped, minor wear to other two corners. Red topstain still bright. Both endpapers have darkening to gutters, bold signature of former owner on front free endpaper. Binding tight, a sturdy book that should last for decades more. The dust jacket is still bright but has heavy chipping, with loss of material at head and heel of spine and at a couple of spots on rear panel. Presents well in a mylar cover despite the jacket's many flaws. $5.00 price intact. Photos are the best description.
Seller: Green River Books, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($5.00), generally rubbed, stains throughout, chipped at the top edge, long tear at the front spine fold. Green buckram, a few stains, front board splayed slightly, rubbed at the bottom edge, with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, toned at the endpapers, bumped at some of the corners, clean otherwise. The account of Steinbeck and Ricketts's six week boating and fishing "expedition" in the Gulf of California.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$690.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 598 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with a section of colour and black and white plates in the center of the book. Page edges are lightly darkened, dyed with dark orange publisher's stain on the top edges. Green cloth with silver titles, lightly worn around the edges. Green dustjacket with white titles and orange accents. Lightly worn around the edges. Jacket is lightly darkened. 1ST US EDITION. NPC (jacket price $5.00). NF/VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$974.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth titled in silver gilt, orange topstain, map endpages. Stated first published Dec. 1941. Light foxing to block edges, trace foxing to endpages. Corners lightly bumped. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is edgeworn/bumped/insected. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 598 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1440.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Nice copy in its first printing. Unmarked, tight and square. Sea green boards with silver lettering. 1/4" tear at head of spine. Map endpapers show light taning at hinge of front endpaper. Clean, supple textblock. Price intact jacket has light edgewear with minimal paper loss at head of spine. A clean, handsome copy. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With a Scientific Appendix Comprising Materials for a Source Book on the Marine Animals of the Panamic Faunal Province. 598pp with Glossary and Index. A Fine copy in marine green cloth stamped in silver, map endpapers, bright orange topstain, in a Near Fine sea-green, red and white dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with several tiny tears, but no fading. Steinbeck and Ricketts were fast friends. Ricketts was the model for Steinbeck's "Doc" in Cannery Row. Q05050
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John & Ricketts, E.F. Sea of Cortez. Viking, New York, 1941.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Book and dustjacket have a small closed tear to the top of the spine. $5.00 price is present. 598 pages, illustrated and indexed. An excellent copy. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John. Sea of Cortez. Viking, 1941.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. A beautiful copy that has benefitted from professional restoration. This original dustjacket is rich in colors and has the price present. The book is in nice condition with light wear to the corners and boards. The binding is tight, and the pages are clean. There is no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this true first edition in collector's condition. We buy Steinbeck First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
John Steinbeck & E. F. Ricketts. SEA OF CORTEZ. Viking, New York, 1941.
Price: US$2517.84 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. 2 inch scuff on bottom rear panel edge. Light toning on front/rear inner gutters. Rubbing along panel edges. 1 inch open tear at bottom of rear panel.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. x, 598 pp. Bound in publisher's teal cloth stamped in silver. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight sunning and dimple to spine panel; two tiny closed tears to bottom of front panel, one of which is repaired with tape on verso. An attractive copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's teal cloth stamped in silver. A fantastic copy, very sharp and bright, with light wear to the textblock edge, and the bottom corners of pages 463-470 uncut and creased in a binder's error, else Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities and light toning to the spine. By far a superior copy of a book and jacket which usually turns up much worse for wear.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John. Sea of Cortez. The Viking Press, New York, 1941.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A magnificent dustjacket that looks about new with slight touch up. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears to the dustjacket. The book is in amazing shape, especially for being such a big book. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with only a hint of to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a stunning copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION seldom seen in this nice condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John.. Sea of Cortez.. Viking, 1941.
Price: US$4200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Near Fine copy in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the folds and extremities and shallow chipping to the head of the spine. Steinbeck's signed note laid in. In 1940, John Steinbeck and his friend Ed Ricketts sailed out of Monterey Bay to the Sea of Cortez. Shifting his focus from fiction to science, Steinbeck wrote that his new work "must jump to include other species beside the human. This is why my interest in biology and ecology have become so sharpened." The account that Steinbeck wrote about the expedition includes Ricketts's catalogue of marine invertebrates found in Baja.
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John. Sea of Cortez. Viking Press, 1941.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: INSCRIBED first edition, first published in December 1941 stated on copyright page, and 1941 also stated on title page. Inscribe and signed by author on front free end paper below map. Book very good, some wear. Dust jacket good, some pieces missing, some wear and tear, some tape on inside of dj.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by John Steinbeck on the title page. Some offsetting to the half-title page, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by W.V. Eckhardt. The collaboration of two friendsâ"one a novelist, one a marine biologistâ"produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of manâs dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely Gulf of California, it will be science to the scientist, philosophy to the philosopher, and to the average man an adventure in living and thinking. The teeming and wildly competitive world of the sand flats is seen in terms of history, politics, ethics, and sociology; a starfish is important, not only because it is a new variety, but because it is essential to the delicate balance of the whole region in which it is found. Steinbeck and Ricketts are the opposite of âpureâ scientists: it is not only their work that fascinates them, but the complicated and enormously exciting implications of that work.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
John Steinbeck. Sea Of Cortez. The Viking Press, 1941.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Extremely Rare Uncorrected Proof of The Sea Of Cortez In Brown Wrappers.Yellow Label On Front. Publication December 5 Price $5.00 Unrevised Proofs. Confidential Please Do not Quote For Publication until Verified Book. Contains Introduction and Narrative, but Not Illustrations or Scientific Data. Front Wrapper Separated From Text Block Otherwise Fine. One Of a Kind.Includes Hertiage Book Shop Brochure for The Care Of Books.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$7995.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In blue and red jacket over green cloth with silver titling, 8vo, 598pp. Illustrated with color and b/w illustrations. A wonderful copy inscribed to long-lived Irish rabble-rowser Sheila O'Leary on the half title page by Steinbeck: "For Sheila O'leary - O'leary - O'leary - For Sheila O'leary. - John Steinbeck". (slight edgewear to outer jacket at tips and corners, slight toning to edges and endpapers). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.