Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Yolla Bolly Press (John Steinbeck). Prospectus for Steinbeck's Zapata. Yolla Bolly Press, 1991.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, A Fine prospectus prepared for and sent to the Press regular customers, in wraps about 8 by 10 inches. The written prospectus is bound in burgundy wraps with a cover printed on handmade paper with silk stitched binding. Text, on heavy, rough-cut stock, includes illustrations, and is four pages long. Laid in are: a two page letter dated October 18, 1991 and signed by the Press owners, Carolyn and James Robertson; an order form with return envelope; and a color photograph of the soon to be released book. Very unusual item.
Seller: Squid Ink Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$549.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No 119 of a limited, signed edition of 190 copies. Signed by the illustrator on the colophon page. Bound in handmade Japanese paper with buckram spine and corners. Spine is lightly and evenly faded. Housed in a buckram covered slipcase with a paper spine label. Light offset fading to slipcase. A beautiful copy.
Seller: Plain Tales Books, Arlington Hts, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in play form, limited edition of 257 copies of which this is number 257, signed by the illustrator. Size: 8.5"x12.5". Original binding of handmade Japanese paper coverd boards, with maroon buckram spine and corners, bottom edge deckled, 168pp., 18 woodcut illustrations, housed in a matching maroon buckram covered slipcase with decorative paper spine label. This is a fine bright copy with just a hint of fading to the otherwise fine slipcase. Photographs available upon request
Seller: J. HOOD, BOOKSELLERS, ABAA/ILAB, Baldwin City, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Number 64 edition of 257 copies, signed Karin Wikstrom on the colophon. 169 pp.; 4to; bound in handmade Japanese paper over boards, with burgundy buckram spine and corners. With publisher's printed Announcement / Prospectus in original mailing envelope. The original treatment by Steinbeck for a proposed 1949 film biography. Lost for over thirty years, the manuscript was recovered by The Yolla Bolly Press. Steinbeck's lost book is a stirring account of the life of Emiliano Zapata, the martyred hero of the Mexican Revolution.; Signed by Author(s)
Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John.. Zapata.. Covelo, The Yolla Bolly Press, 1991, 1991.
Price: US$892.50 + shipping
Description: Covelo, The Yolla Bolly Press, 1991, first trade edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with the publisher's original slipcase, an 8X12-inch small folio, includes 18 woodcut illustrations by Karin Wikstrom, Steinbeck wrote the screenplay for the 1952 film titled Viva Zapata! that starred Marlon Brando, but before he wrote the screenplay, he wrote a "treatment" for the film, dated April 1949 and titled Zapata (The Little Tiger), it consisted of 337 typewritten pages, the first 90 of which were his introduction with the history and culture of Mexico, the treatment had no camera directions so it isn't a screenplay, but it is written in a dramatic format with dialogue, scene descriptions, and asides on the people and countryside, the binding for this fine press item is hand-made Japanese paper over boards with a buckram spine and corners, the slipcase is buckram over archival boards, this is No. 75 of 190 numbered copies Signed by Wikstrom and issued for sale (Nos. 51-67 were reserved by the publisher, while the first 50 copies comprised the de luxe edition). Fine, unread.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.