STEINBECK, JOHN. Tortilla Flat. New York: Covici-Friede [1935]. 8vo, original tan cloth (slight offset from jacket on spine), pictorial dust jacket (spine darkened and slightly frayed at ends); cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, cloth issue (500 copies were issued in pictorial wrappers), illustrated by Ruth Gannet, PUBLISHER'S SAMPLE COPY, with two large rubber-stamps on inside front cover and front free endpaper: "Covici-Friede Inc. Sample Copy Not for Sale"; PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "For Robert Rau John Steinbeck" (Rau probably designed the book). Goldstone & Payne A4b. Steinbeck's fourth book -- and his first commercial success.