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Pastures of heaven / John Steinbeck.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Farm life--California--Fiction.
- Farm life.
- Rural families--California--Fiction.
- Rural families.
- California.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rascoe, Ruth (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 294 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition, fourth issue].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Covici Friede Publishers, [1932]
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "Copyright, 1932, by John Steinbeck."
- Tan cloth boards with front cover printed in red with a horizontal rule extending across spine and back cover. Top edges trimmed and stained light green.
- "This is the remaining portion of the approximately 1850 sheets sold by Brewer, Warren & Putnam to Robert O. Ballou and by the latter to Covici-Friede. These were not sold until 1935, which is the probable date of issue. A new title page was tipped in, and the binding and dust jacket differ from the previous editions."--Cf. Goldstone.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "For Ruth Rascoe. Burton has told me something of you. I hope your battle isn't dubious. John Steinbeck".
- Cited in:
- Goldstone, A. H. : John Steinbeck a bibliographical catalogue, A2e
- OCLC:
- 2196546
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