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Steinbeck, John

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Steinbeck, John
Steinbeck, John. Autograph Postcard Signed, 196 words written in tiny script, Pacific Grove, California, Feb. 15, 1935. To Harry Thornton Moore, author of The Novels of John Steinbeck: A First Critical Study (1939). In part: "We are on the last draft of a book and are pounding about ten hours a day. Covici, Friede have taken me under their wing or wings if publishers have such and are bringing out two new books this spring and are reissuing all the others, so apparently my work has found a home. It is comfortable. I'm sick of being kicked around….We plan to go into Mexico very shortly. There to work on a very long and very difficult book. Some small town on the plateau I think. Cheaper to live and I'd like some altitude for a while…." Fine. This letter is one of the earliest mentioning his new publishers Covici, Friede. Steinbeck's plans to go to Mexico were cancelled until September of 1935. The last draft he was working on at the time was In Dubious Battle Tortilla Flat. was finished at this time so it appears that these were the two books coming out; however, In Dubious Battle was published in 1936. The "very long and very difficult book" referred to was The Grapes of Wrath (see Jackson J. Benson's John Steinbeck, Writer, p. 316). With the first English edition of a pamphlet by Harry Thornton Moore, John Steinbeck and His Novels (London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1939), and a 1949 letter from The Argus Book Shop in Chicago, offering this and other Steinbeck letters for the first time.
Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000.

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