Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 349

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
STEINBECK, JOHN. Nothing So Monstrous. Illustrations by Donald McKay. 8vo, publisher's 1/4 cloth-backed marbled boards; original glassine dust jacket, few small chips at extremities; custom 1/4 morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. (New York: Pynson Printers), 1936

Additional Details

first separate edition, one of 370 copies, with a new epilogue. Signed by Elmer Adler, owner of the press, for presentation to Howard Eric. Presumably a subscriber, Eric's name nevertheless is not mentioned in Goldstone & Payne along with the other subscribers for whom the edition was intended. Includes a card signed by Steinbeck laid in. Goldstone-Payne A2.f.