Cannery Row -
John Steinbeck
1945 - The Viking Press, New York - First Edition, First State
Cannery Row's ‘inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.’
A fine first edition of one of Steinbeck’s wonderful stories set in Monterey, with the Doc being based on his old friend Ed Ricketts. In the scarce first State binding using buff-coloured cloth (there was not enough of this cloth to complete the run, so canary-yellow cloth was selected to bind the remaining majority).  More Details
Price: HK$ 10,000 |
