Steinbeck, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. Viking, NY, 1961.

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Condition: Near Fine

Description: Blue cloth /silver gilt on black title box, blue topstain. Second printing before publication stated. Signed by Steinbeck in felt marker to the ffep. Purchased at auction of items from Steinbeck's sister. Faint foxing to top edge of cloth, spine head slightly pushed, endpages slightly toned. Else tight and square. The DJ in mylar is slightly foxed, rubbed to points. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author

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STEINBECK, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. Viking, New York, 1961.

Price: US$6500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper and printed acetate overjacket. However, and although not called for, this copy is Inscribed: "For Oliver H. Clark from John Steinbeck." Scarce thus.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Steinbeck, John. The Winter of Our Discontent.. The Viking Press, New York, 1961.

Price: US$12500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, presentation edition of Steinbeck's final novel, one of only 500 examples with only a few known inscribed examples, which along with The Grapes of Wrath are considered his masterpieces. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Hello Dennis -- We live, but I wonder whether we learn anything John Steinbeck." The reply in a second hand reads, "As I told John -- We don't. Dennis Wesley." The recipient, Dennis Wesley was an illustrator, who illustrated Steinbeck's classic The Red Pony over twenty years earlier. He was also known for illustrating fifteen children's books about horses that he created in collaboration with writer Marguerite Henry. He illustrated over 150 books in his lifetime, includingÂAnna Sewell'sÂBlack Beauty andÂalso wrote and illustrated a few books of his own, among which areÂFlip,ÂFlip and the Cows,ÂFlip and the Morning, andÂTumble. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Elmer Hader. Lettering by Jeanyee Wong. Photograph by William Ward Beecher. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by Asprey. An exceptional association. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.” Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty, and today ranks alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.