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The first watch / by John Steinbeck.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 St346 947f
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Contributor:
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Genre:
Personal correspondence.
Physical Description:
6 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 14 cm
Edition:
[First edition].
Place of Publication:
[Los Angeles] : [Ward Ritchie press], [1947]
Notes:
Title page printed in red and black with drawing of watch and "Christmas 1947" printed beneath.
"Privately printed and distributed by permission of John Steinbeck. This printing is limited to sixty copies for free distribution among friends of the sponsor. This pamphlet is not for general or public distribution and all rights of reproduction of the whole or any part thereof are reserved by the author, John Steinbeck."
A letter to "Mr. G.," dated at Los Gatos, Calif., Jan. 5, 1938.
Buff wrapper with hand ties housed in envelope.
"This letter is here first printed by the Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, California, in an edition of sixty copies, ten for the use of the author and fifty for presentation by Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn."
Local Notes:
Culture Class Collection copy is no. 16.
Culture Class Collection copy has [2] slips laid in.
OCLC:
2018569

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