The Pastures of Heaven
- New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. Very Good. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. First Edition, one of 650 copies of the first issue with Brewer imprint to spine and title page. Octavo; 294pp. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt; dark topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Light wear to boards; spine faded with some smudging as is common with this title; binding sound; touch of off-setting to endpapers, else unmarked.
A Very Good and sound copy of Steinbeck's second book, of which 1,650 copies were bound and 1000 of those sold to Robert A. Ballou. An important early work, praised upon release in the Los Angeles Times as a "strangely haunting book" in which the valley-villagers "are made to live and breathe and have their being in the little farms shrouded by lovely trees of abundant foliage; oft shut in their homes by depressing brick walls or rudely painted frames that were once stately trees of the valley," and concludes, "his particularly fine ability to find beauty and hope in the oft bare lives of these rural Californians is most gratifying." First issues scarce in retail.
Goldstone & Payne A2a; Gerry Fitzgerald "Carmel Valley Inspires Story." Los Angeles Times: Sunday, October 23, 1932, page 42.
A Very Good and sound copy of Steinbeck's second book, of which 1,650 copies were bound and 1000 of those sold to Robert A. Ballou. An important early work, praised upon release in the Los Angeles Times as a "strangely haunting book" in which the valley-villagers "are made to live and breathe and have their being in the little farms shrouded by lovely trees of abundant foliage; oft shut in their homes by depressing brick walls or rudely painted frames that were once stately trees of the valley," and concludes, "his particularly fine ability to find beauty and hope in the oft bare lives of these rural Californians is most gratifying." First issues scarce in retail.
Goldstone & Payne A2a; Gerry Fitzgerald "Carmel Valley Inspires Story." Los Angeles Times: Sunday, October 23, 1932, page 42.