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By: Saramago, Jose; Pontiero, Giovanni (Translator)
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Harvest / Harcourt, Inc.: 1999
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2264765
ISBN: 0156007754
Condition: Good
Reprint. Wrappers rubbed. 1999 Trade Paperback. 326 pp. A novel by the Nobel Prize winning Portuguese author. A city is hit by an epidemic of white blindness which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable o... View more info
By: Saramago, Jose; Pontiero, Giovanni (Translator)
Price: $6.00 $4.80
Publisher: Harvest / Harcourt, Inc.: 1999
Seller ID: 2296772
ISBN: 0156007754
Condition: Good
Spine creased. Pencil underlining and marginalia throughout. 1999 Trade Paperback. 327 pp. A novel by the Nobel Prize winning Portuguese author. A city is hit by an epidemic of white blindness which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are... View more info
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285394
ISBN: 0374126313
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, 1 inch tear on front jacket edge with associated creases, repaired with clear tape on reverse. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 610 pp. 8vo. The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, Gimpel the Fool, in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and stories of the Jews displaced from that world to the New World, from the Eas... View more info
By: Sohlman, Ragnar; Schuck, Henrik; Lunn, Brian and Beatrix
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation: 1929
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2272515
Condition: Very Good
First edition. No jacket, some faint spots on front board, black smudge on page ridge, ink note on front endpaper. 1929 Hard Cover. 353 pp. A history of the Nobel family. Alfred Bernhard Nobel (/no?'b?l/; Swedish: ['alfr?d n?'b?l] About this sound listen (help·info); 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. Known for inventing dynamite, Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Nobel held 355 diffe... View more info
By: Soyinka, Wole
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: 2007
Seller ID: 2201082
ISBN: 0375755144
Condition: Very Good
Half-inch chip to bottom spine edge. 2007 Trade Paperback. xx, 499 pp. The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland. In the tough, humane, and lyrical language that has typified his plays and novels, Soyinka captures the indomitable spirit of Nigeria itself by bringing to life the friends and family who bolstered and inspired hi... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1852586
Condition: Very Good
First edition, first state. Boards lightly soiled, front free endpaper removed, jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from spine foot, jacket lightly toned. 1942 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188 pp. Original blue cloth, silver titles. A military novella clearly intended to mirror World War II and the occupation by the Nazis, although in this story the occupying nation remains unnamed. It was written to encourage resistance among the oppressed. View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York: 1951
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2059255
Condition: Near Fine
First paperback printing. Pages toned, edges lightly rubbed. 1951 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 182 pp. This novel has ben cited by some critics as the most representative of Steinbeck's versatile gifts. This simply-told story of a California community living in a long valley floored with green pasturage, has all the liteary qualities which have made its author famous-the clear-cut characterization, the carefully detailed background, the incisive incident, the purposeful but unlabored pointing up of the inherent ironies in human hope and endeavor. View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1939
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2184585
Condition: Near Fine
2nd printing. Lacks jacket. Spine slightly toned, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1939 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 619 pp. 8vo. Original beige cloth, brown titles & wrap-around image of the Joads headed to the mountains, blue top page ridge. Battle Hymn of the Republic music printed on endpapers. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, ... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1945
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2199022
Condition: Good
1945 4th printing, includes wartime statement on copyright page. Lacks jacket. Boards a bit soiled, ink name on front endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 181 pp. 8vo. Yellow cloth boards. Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Cannery Row is his study of American life in Monterey, California. View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200387
Condition: Very Good
First edition, first state. Minor damage to bottom corner, jacket edges rubbed. 1942 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, silver titles. A military novella clearly intended to mirror World War II and the occupation by the Nazis, although in this story the occupying nation remains unnamed. It was written to encourage resistance among the oppressed. View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: The Sun Dial Press, New York: 1943
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2184582
Condition: Very Good
First photoplay edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners, ink name on top of first text page. Good. 1943 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188 pp. 8vo. Film stills on jacket, plates of scenes from motin picture throughout text. A novel focusing on the occupation of a small town during World War II, which inspired a film of the same name the following year. Written with a purpose to motivate resistance movements in occupied countries, it cleverly avoids mentioning names of countries, though it clearly depicts events mirroring the German occupation of N... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: The World Publishing Company: 1943
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2184607
Condition: Very Good
First printing of World's Tower Books reissue. Rochester Typographical Union Lending Library sticker and checkout list on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss and tears to corners. Good. 1943 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 247 pp. 8vo. A novel by the author of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, in which a New England farmer moves to California to make a better life. One of Steinbeck's scarcer titles. View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1966
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2266461
Condition: Very Good
2nd printing before publication. Jacket price clipped, 1 inch closed tear on front jacket corner, jacket toned. 1966 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 207, [1] pp. By the Nobel Prize winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Illustrated with pictures by 55 photographers. CONTENTS: Foreword; E Pluribus Unum; Paradox and Dream; Government of the People; Created Equal; Genus Americanus; The Pursuit of Happiness; Americans and the Land; Americans and the World; Americans and the Future; Afterword; Acknowledgments. View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1939
Edition: 9th Printing
Seller ID: 2272838
Condition: Very Good
9th printing. Lacks jacket. Spine toned, two small spots on front board. 1939 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 473, [1] pp. 8vo. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family's life on a failing Oklahoma farm, their difficult journey to California, and their disillusi... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: Covici Friede Publishers: 1937
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2278893
Condition: Very Good
2nd printing. Lacks jacket. Spine toned, spine leans forward, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1937 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 186, [6] pp. 8vo. They are an unlikely pair: George is small and quick and dark of face; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a family, clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can c... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2279323
Condition: Good
First edition. Lacks jacket. First gathering of pages loose, ink bookstore stamp on rear endpaper. 1947 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 122, [2] pp. 8vo. Illustrations by Jose Clemente Orozco. In this short book illuminated by a deep understanding and love of humanity, John Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folk tale: the story of the great pearl, how it was found, and how it was lost. For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him ... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1957
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2279325
Condition: Very Good
Book club edition. Jacket lightly rubbed. 1957 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188 pp. 8vo. John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippin?s wife, Queen Marie, who ?might have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant?; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; his glamour-struck daughter and her beau, the son of the so-called 'egg king' of Petaluma, California; and a motley crew of courtiers ... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1935
Edition: Photoplay Edition
Seller ID: 2279326
Condition: Very Good
1942 photoplay edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, jacket lightly rubbed. 1935 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 316, [1] pp. 8vo. Jacket features image of Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamar, and John Garfield, who starred in the 1942 motion picture adaptation. A novel by the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2279356
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Second state. No jacket, spine faintly toned. 1942 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, silver titles. A military novella clearly intended to mirror World War II and the occupation by the Nazis, although in this story the occupying nation remains unnamed. It was written to encourage resistance among the oppressed.The Moon Is Down, a novel by John Steinbeck fashioned for adaptation for the theatre and for which Steinbeck received the Norwegian King Haakon VII Freedom Cross, was published by Viking Press in March 1942. The sto... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1939
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2279362
Condition: Very Good
Book club edition. Lacks jacket. Small ink scribble on front paste-down endpaper. 1939 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 473 pp. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family's life on a failing Oklahoma farm, their difficult journey to California, and their disillusio... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $9.00 $7.20
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1961
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2279365
Condition: Very Good
Jacket edges lightly rubbed with a few minor tears. Front endpaper missing. 1961 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 281 pp. 8vo. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.” Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline in their status, his wife is restless, and his teenag... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1939
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2283484
Condition: Very Good
12th printing. Lacks jacket. Front hinge just starting, ink owner stamp on front endpaper. 1939 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 619, [1] pp. 8vo. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family's life on a failing Oklahoma farm, their difficult journey to California, a... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1983
Seller ID: 2285628
Condition: Near Fine
Faint smudge on spine, top edge faintly foxed. 1983 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 424 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family's life on a fa... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $425.00 $340.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2292253
Condition: Good
First edition ('First published in April 1939' stated on copyright page). Includes new facsimile of the Elmer Hader jacket. Spine toned, boards lightly soiled, edges a bit foxed, a bit musty, ink name and date on front endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 619, [1] pp. 8vo. Battle Hymn of the Republic endpapers. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel that encapsulated the American experience during the Great Depression. It inspired the equally successful John Ford film starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell and John Carradine, which won two Academy Awards. View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: The Library of America: 1994
Seller ID: 2297786
ISBN: 1883011019
Condition: Good
Slipcase very lightly toned. Light stain on front board. A good copy in a very good slipcase. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 909 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. The Library of America presents for the first time in one volume Steinbeck’s early writings, which expressed his abiding concerns for community, social justice, and the elemental connection between nature and human society. In prose that blends the vernacular and the incantatory, the local and the mythic, these five works chart Steinbeck’s evolution into one... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: The Library of America: 2001
Seller ID: 2297788
ISBN: 1931082073
Condition: Very Good
A few light spots on slipcase. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. A very good copy in a very good slipcase. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 983 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders.In Cannery Row (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, ... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Triangle Books / Blue Ribbon Books / American Book-Stratford Press, Inc.: 1940
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2300617
Condition: Good
Reissue. Ink name on front endpaper, stain to base of boards and jacket, jacket edges rubbed. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 186, [6] pp. 8vo. They are an unlikely pair: George is small and quick and dark of face; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a family, clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John; Gannett, Lewis
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Armed Services, Inc. / The Council on Books in Wartime: 1936
Seller ID: 2206843
Condition: Good
A few creases on front wrapper along spine, edges rubbed, pages lightly toned. 1936 Soft Cover. 285, [1] pp. Oblong, printed wrappers. A reissue of Steinbeck's first novel, released for distribution to members of the United States Armed Services during World War II. Cup of Gold: A life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History (1929) was John Steinbeck's first novel, a work of historical fiction based loosely on the life and death of privateer Henry Morgan. It centres on Morgan's assault and sacking of Panama City (the Cup of Gold), and the woman fairer than the sun ... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John; Van Doren, Carl
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: The World Publishing Company: 1947
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2283612
Condition: Very Good
Reissue. 1 inch chip from front jacket corner, minor loss from other corners. 1947 Hard Cover. 468, [2] pp. 8vo. Introduction by Carl Van Doren, illustrations by John Groth. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family's life on a failing Oklahoma farm, their difficult journey to California,... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.: 2012
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2299481
ISBN: 0393088693
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. A few faint smudges to jacket panels. 2012 Hard Cover. xxxi, 414 pp. The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live.” Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable: moneyed interests compound their wealth by stifling true, dynamic capitalism. They have made America the most unequal adv... View more info
