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Sale 483: Fine Literature with Books in All Fields (#483) 07/05/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 07/05/2012 11:00 AM PDT

Lot #263To a God Unknown

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$5,625

Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000

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Sale 483: Fine Literature with Books in All Fields (#483) 07/05/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 07/05/2012 11:00 AM PDT

Description

Title:

To a God Unknown

Author:

Steinbeck, John

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Robert O. Ballou

Date Published:

[1933]

Description:

Pale green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained black; decorative jacket and endpapers by Mahlon Blaine. First Edition, First Issue.

First issue, with Robert O. Ballou imprint. Steinbeck's scarce third book, one of 598 bound and sold as the first issue (of 1,498 copies printed). The remaining sheets were sold to Covici, Friede, and issued under their imprint in 1935. Printed jacket price listed towards the bottom of the front flap. Goldstone-Payne A3.a; Merle Johnson, p. 473.

Condition:

Jacket lightly edge worn, short tear at bottom edge of front panel and small chip at foot of spine; volume with faint small smudge streak on spine cloth; book and jacket near fine.

Item#:

228514

Headline:

Steinbeck's To a God Unknown first edition dj
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