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John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down, First Edition

Currency:USD Category:Books / Antiquarian & Collectible Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down, First Edition
<B>John Steinbeck, <I>The Moon Is Down,</B></I></B></I> (New York: The Viking Press, 1942). First edition, second printing without large period on 112. 8vo, publisher's original blue cloth, lettered in silver on the spine and decorated in blind on the upper cover, in the pictorially illustrated dust jacket. 188 pages. Clipped price and owner's name in ink on endpaper. Some light wear to dust jacket, else a fine copy. "For the first time since he wrote his first novel, twelve years ago, Steinbeck has gone outside of America for his setting. Yet this book, more than any other he has written, is of our times and of our hearts today. Its people are men and women like ourselves, and its hero, Mayor Orden, will stand with George and Lennie, Tom Joad and Jody Tiflin, among the immortal characters of fiction."-Publisher. <BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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