STEINBECK JOHN Cup of Gold

Sale 2448 - Lot 241

Price Realized: $ 812

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

STEINBECK, JOHN. Cup of Gold. 8vo, rebound in full forest green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf, covers paneled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt; minimal foxing confined to preliminaries. New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1929

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first edition, first issue of steinbeck's first book, with "First Published, August 1929" on copyright page. The publisher printed only 2476 copies, 939 of which were remaindered as unbound sheets and evidently sold to Covici-Friede who issued them with new preliminaries, preface, binding, and jacket in 1936. Goldstone-Payne A1.a.