Search Results: Sea Of Cortez by John Steinbeck

UsedVeryGood. Minor shelf wear

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

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UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

Penguin Books, 2009. Paperback. New. 6.8.2009 edition. 656 pages. 8.30x5.40x1.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

Penguin Books, 2009. Paperback. New. 6.8.2009 edition. 656 pages. 8.30x5.40x1.50 inches.

Sea of Cortez A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research with a Scientific Appendix Comprising Materials for a Source Book on the Marine Animals of the Panamic Faunal Province by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts, published in 1941. Hardcover with original jacket. Shelfwear to boards and chipping to jacket especially on the spine of dust jacket. Original owners gift inscription on half title page.

New York:: Viking,, 1941.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the folds and extremities and shallow chipping to the head of the spine. Steinbeck's signed note laid in. In 1940, John Steinbeck and his friend Ed Ricketts sailed out of Monterey Bay to the Sea of Cortez. Shifting his focus from fiction to science, Steinbeck wrote that his new work "must jump to include other species beside the human. This is why my interest in biology and ecology have become so sharpened." The account that Steinbeck wrote about the expedition includes Ricketts's catalogue of marine invertebrates found in Baja.

Viking Press, 1941. first. hardcover. very good/good. INSCRIBED first edition, first published in December 1941 stated on copyright page, and 1941 also stated on title page. Inscribe and signed by author on front free end paper below map. Book very good, some wear. Dust jacket good, some pieces missing, some wear and tear, some tape on inside of dj.

The Viking Press, 1941. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Extremely Rare Uncorrected Proof of The Sea Of Cortez In Brown Wrappers.Yellow Label On Front. Publication December 5 Price $5.00 Unrevised Proofs. Confidential Please Do not Quote For Publication until Verified Book. Contains Introduction and Narrative, but Not Illustrations or Scientific Data. Front Wrapper Separated From Text Block Otherwise Fine. One Of a Kind.Includes Hertiage Book Shop Brochure for The Care Of Books..

New York: Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In blue and red jacket over green cloth with silver titling, 8vo, 598pp. Illustrated with color and b/w illustrations. A wonderful copy inscribed to long-lived Irish rabble-rowser Sheila O'Leary on the half title page by Steinbeck: "For Sheila O'leary - O'leary - O'leary - For Sheila O'leary. - John Steinbeck". (slight edgewear to outer jacket at tips and corners, slight toning to edges and endpapers).