STEINBECK, JOHN. Of Mice and Men. 8vo, publisher's beige cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and orange, spine tips rubbed slightly; dust jacket, spine panel darkened with short chips to ends and with abrasions, short closed tear, lighter tanning to rear panel and extremities, fold corner nicks; contents clean. first edition, first issue with "pendula" on page 9, and a bullet between the numbers on page 88. Goldstone & Payne A7.a. New York: Covici-Friede, (1937)