First edition, second issue of John Steinbeck’s wartime novel, published in 1942 by The Viking Press. 8vo, blue cloth with silver spine lettering, in original pictorial dust jacket. Flat-signed by John Steinbeck in blue/black ink on the half-title. With the attractive period bookplate of Inna Maart of Monmouth County, NJ to front pastedown, its striking black-and-white Art Deco design reminiscent of the graphic idiom of Rockwell Kent. A handsome signed copy of Steinbeck’s wartime novel, an allegory of resistance to Nazi occupation that was translated and clandestinely circulated throughout occupied Europe, becoming one of the most consequential works of American literary propaganda of the Second World War. Minor foxing to pastedowns. Moderate rubbing and chipping to price-clipped dj. Otherwise near fine.
First edition, second issue of John Steinbeck’s wartime novel, published in 1942 by The Viking Press. 8vo, blue cloth with silver spine lettering, in original pictorial dust jacket. Flat-signed by John Steinbeck in blue/black ink on the half-title. With the attractive period bookplate of Inna Maart of Monmouth County, NJ to front pastedown, its striking black-and-white Art Deco design reminiscent of the graphic idiom of Rockwell Kent. A handsome signed copy of Steinbeck’s wartime novel, an allegory of resistance to Nazi occupation that was translated and clandestinely circulated throughout occupied Europe, becoming one of the most consequential works of American literary propaganda of the Second World War. Minor foxing to pastedowns. Moderate rubbing and chipping to price-clipped dj. Otherwise near fine.
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