Red Pony by STEINBECK John - 1937

1937. First Edition . Signed. STEINBECK, John. The Red Pony. New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth, uncut. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $7800.Signed limited first edition, number 567 of 699 copies signed by Steinbeck on the limitation page—this copy additionally signed and inscribed by Steinbeck on the title page: ""For Harald Baily from Steinbeck.""The three interconnected stories in this volume (a fourth was added in the 1945 edition) won praise on publication as ""pure gold… all three of these stories have more depth, intensity and variety than one could possibly anticipate"" (New York Times Book Review). To biographer Jackson Benson, they ""act as a moral fulcrum… These stories, with their child observer, examine the nature of life and of death and the relationship of the individual to the whole"" (True Adventures, 288). Issued simultaneously with an unrecorded lettered signed limited edition of somewhere between 26 and 52 copies. Without scarce glassine, slipcase. Goldstone & Payne A9a. Salinas Public Library, 27. Valentine 78. A fine copy.