Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 240

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
STEINBECK, JOHN. Chapter Thirty-Four from the Novel East of Eden. Decorated with 2-color linoleum cut on front wrapper, reproduced on title-page. 4to, limp buff wrappers with inner folds over white chipboard, mild age-toning to upper wrapper extremities; contents clean. [Bronxville]: Privately printed, 1952

Additional Details

one of 125 copies printed on the hand-press by valenti angelo. First separate edition. Presentation copy of this scarce privately printed Steinbeck item, inscribed and signed by Valenti Angelo to a noted New York bookman: 'For Phil Duschnes from Valenti Angelo, with all my best wishes.' Unrecorded variant, differing from the three identified in Goldstone & Payne (no priority), this copy with circular "JS" design appearing both on front wrapper and title-page. Goldstone & Payne A32.d.