Tortilla Flat
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
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About This Item
Viking Press. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1947. Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Variant binding of black cloth backed green boards with gilt title to spine. Light toning along upper/lower edges; slightly bumped spine ends and corners; trace soil. Green topstain. Jacket in archival protector is moderately toned and scuffed; small chips/tears with minor related creasing; light soil; a bit of pen writing to front flap; flaps not clipped. Binding sound, text unmarked. Unobtrusive previous owner name and brief inscription to ffep. Interior lightly toned. 17 color plates reproduced from paintings by Peggy Worthington. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 213 pages .
Synopsis
Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California. The book portrays with great sympathy and humour a group of paisanos (fellows/countrymen), denouncing society by enjoying life and wine in the idyllic days after the end of the Great War and preceding U.S. prohibition. Tortilla Flat was made into a film in 1942. Steinbeck would later return to the some of the panhandling locals of Monterey (though not the Spanish paisanos of the Flat) in his novel Cannery Row (1945).
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Details
- Seller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 8980
- Title
- Tortilla Flat
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Illustrator
- Peggy Worthington
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- Illustrated Edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Illustrated, California, Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Old Editions Inc.
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North Tonawanda, New York
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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