Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. by Dick, Philip K

Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1985, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This is an extremely important study by a once-promising young native American scholar who, sadly, took his own life a few years ago, but who left the world of Steinbeck scholarship this landmark study and a number of other books, with this book Owens "examines how Steinbeck used this would-be Eden (California) to explore the moral bankruptcy of American society, to explore the corruption that lay beneath the beckoning surface of the American dream," this is a very scarce book that seldom comes on the market. Fine, with no fading along jacket spine as is so common with this book.

Petaluma, Anchor & Acorn Press, 1990, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. With its illustrated dust jacket, first separate printing of this superb short story, No. 83 of 100 numbered copies illustrated with hand-colored wood engravings and Signed by the illustrator, Colleen Dwire Weaver, including a wood engraving of a young John Steinbeck writing, this illustration lies within a double-spread title page and was created by Weaver from photos of Steinbeck by Sonya Noskowiak and Robert Capa, it also includes an Afterword by Weaver who produced this fine press item as part of an intership and who later received permission from Elaine Steinbeck to sell her remaining copies (most were given away to her family and friends), very scarce. Fine.

NY, Random House, 1967, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Author's First Book, frontispiece photo from the play of this comedy, the play starred Kay Medford, Lou Jacobi, Anita Gillette, Donna Mills, and others. Fine in a very good plus jacket.

Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923, first trade edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, first issue with the single quote mark missing before the word "That's" on page 219, seven lines up, Smith 25, Keating 179. Clean, very nearly fine.

London, privately printed, 1924, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. No. 11 of 100 copies Signed by Jessie Conrad, wife of the great novelist, she provides her own preface in which she notes that Conrad approved her recollections shortly before his death, there are three sections (First Days, The Early Years, and Later Days), original red patterned boards with paper spine label, TEG, with original glassine dust jacket, Keating 270. Bit of bubbling to front board, else very nearly fine.

Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1985, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This is an extremely important study by a once-promising young native American scholar who, sadly, took his own life a few years ago, but who left the world of Steinbeck scholarship this landmark study and a number of other books, with this book Owens "examines how Steinbeck used this would-be Eden (California) to explore the moral bankruptcy of American society, to explore the corruption that lay beneath the beckoning surface of the American dream," this is a very scarce book that seldom comes on the market. Fine, with no fading along jacket spine as is so common with this book.

Petaluma, Anchor & Acorn Press, 1990, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. With its illustrated dust jacket, first separate printing of this superb short story, No. 83 of 100 numbered copies illustrated with hand-colored wood engravings and Signed by the illustrator, Colleen Dwire Weaver, including a wood engraving of a young John Steinbeck writing, this illustration lies within a double-spread title page and was created by Weaver from photos of Steinbeck by Sonya Noskowiak and Robert Capa, it also includes an Afterword by Weaver who produced this fine press item as part of an intership and who later received permission from Elaine Steinbeck to sell her remaining copies (most were given away to her family and friends), very scarce. Fine.

NY, Random House, 1967, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Author's First Book, frontispiece photo from the play of this comedy, the play starred Kay Medford, Lou Jacobi, Anita Gillette, Donna Mills, and others. Fine in a very good plus jacket.

Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923, first trade edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, first issue with the single quote mark missing before the word "That's" on page 219, seven lines up, Smith 25, Keating 179. Clean, very nearly fine.

London, privately printed, 1924, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. No. 11 of 100 copies Signed by Jessie Conrad, wife of the great novelist, she provides her own preface in which she notes that Conrad approved her recollections shortly before his death, there are three sections (First Days, The Early Years, and Later Days), original red patterned boards with paper spine label, TEG, with original glassine dust jacket, Keating 270. Bit of bubbling to front board, else very nearly fine.