Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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STEINBECK, John (1902?1968). The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, [1939]. 8vo. Full red levant gilt?framed, an additional central gilt foliage frame of grape leaf vines, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt?lettering and leafy centerpieces with gilt fillets in compartments, gilt fillet turn ins with leafy cornerpieces, original illustrated endpapers retained at end, all edges gilt, concealing a FORE?EDGE PAINTING REPRODUCING A RENDITION OF THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET; folding box. FIRST EDITION of this unique copy with a colorful and wonderfully executed fore?edge painting. Goldstone & Payne A12a.