Steinbeck, John | First edition, first issue of this American classic

Steinbeck, John

Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede, 1937

8vo (192 x 118 mm). Half-title, title-page printed in orange and black. Publisher's grey cloth, printed orange and black on upper board and spine, top edge blue, in original pictorial dustjacket; some light smudging to jacket's rear panel, 3 very small stray stains to edges. Housed in a blue clamshell box.

First edition, first issue of Steinbeck's essential novel about migrant workers in California during the Great Depression. A very clean copy of this American classic.

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Goldstone & Payne A7a