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STEINBECK, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. New York: Viking Press, 1961.
8o. Original dark blue buckram; pictorial dust jacket and publishers printed outer acetate jacket; quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE LIMITED ISSUE, one of 500 copies specially bound in buckram for private distribution prior to publication. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY STEINBECK to Chase Horton on front free endpaper: "For Chase - Made glorious summer by this son of Leicester - from John." Steinbeck is playing with the opening line of Shakespeare's Richard III, "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York" associating Chase to Leicester rather than York. Chase Horton, recipient of numerous letter from Steinbeck, published in Steinbeck a Life in Letters, was the owner of the Washington Square Bookshop, and editor of Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights. This was Steinbeck's last novel, set in a seaside village modeled on Sag Harbor, Long Island, where Steinbeck lived the final years of his life. Goldstone and Payne A38a.
8o. Original dark blue buckram; pictorial dust jacket and publishers printed outer acetate jacket; quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE LIMITED ISSUE, one of 500 copies specially bound in buckram for private distribution prior to publication. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY STEINBECK to Chase Horton on front free endpaper: "For Chase - Made glorious summer by this son of Leicester - from John." Steinbeck is playing with the opening line of Shakespeare's Richard III, "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York" associating Chase to Leicester rather than York. Chase Horton, recipient of numerous letter from Steinbeck, published in Steinbeck a Life in Letters, was the owner of the Washington Square Bookshop, and editor of Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights. This was Steinbeck's last novel, set in a seaside village modeled on Sag Harbor, Long Island, where Steinbeck lived the final years of his life. Goldstone and Payne A38a.