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STEINBECK, John. Tortilla Flat. New York: Covici-Friede, 1935.
8o. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. Original beige cloth; dust jacket (some very slight age-toning to spine panel and edges, otherwise fine). Provenance: Harold Strauss (presentation inscription); Marguerite Cohn, wife of Henry Louis Cohn, proprietor of House of Books and Hemingway's first bibliographer (purchased from Strauss in the 1950s).
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY STEINBECK on the front free endpaper: "For Harold Strauss John Steinbeck." Strauss was head of the production department at Covici-Friede and later a literary reviewer for The New York Times. The book was issued simultaneously in pictorial wrappers. Goldstone and Payne A4b.
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FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY STEINBECK on the front free endpaper: "For Harold Strauss John Steinbeck." Strauss was head of the production department at Covici-Friede and later a literary reviewer for The New York Times. The book was issued simultaneously in pictorial wrappers. Goldstone and Payne A4b.