TORTILLA FLAT
by Steinbeck, John; Gannett, Ruth
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
TORTILLA FLAT did, of course, amount to something, earning the California Commonwealth Club's Gold Medal and a mention in the justification for Steinbeck's 1962 Nobel Prize. It was also made into a 1942 film starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr, and was one of the top box office grossers of the year.
This first edition is a crystallization of the beginning of Steinbeck's career, before his works were required reading in classrooms across America. With Ruth Gannett's illustrations nestled throughout the text, TORTILLA FLAT is a refreshingly light title in a broad oeuvre. 7.5'' x 5''. Original tan cloth binding with blue spine lettering. Original unclipped ($2.50) pictorial dust jacket in blue and black. Blue topstain. Fore-edge machine deckle. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 318 pages. Housed in custom blue leather-backed clamshell box. Jacket with some edgewear, mild chipping to spine ends; spine sunned. Binding corners and spine ends lightly bumped, topstain a bit faded; tiny creases to lower margins of pages 316-318. A clean, sound copy.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41022
- Title
- TORTILLA FLAT
- Author
- Steinbeck, John; Gannett, Ruth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Covici Friede Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- 20th century,American,Arthurian,Books to Film,Nobel
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Clamshell Box
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- Sunned
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Poor
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