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Very good: the cloth lightly soiled and toned as usual for this construction, the cover design clean and bright, the spine lightly worn at the head with the gilt faded but legible, the binding sound; internally the bamboo paper uniformly toned but supple and intact, without marginalia or inscription.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA landmark of 1890s San Francisco literary culture. \u003cem\u003eThe Lark\u003c\/em\u003e ran for twenty-four monthly numbers and a final \u003cem\u003eEpi-Lark\u003c\/em\u003e between May 1895 and April 1897, founded by Gelett Burgess and Bruce Porter as the vehicle of the loose circle of young San Francisco writers and artists who became known as Les Jeunes — among them Burgess and Porter, Florence Lundborg, Ernest Peixotto, Willis Polk, Porter Garnett, Yone Noguchi, and Carolyn Wells. Printed on delicate bamboo paper with a deliberately informal aesthetic, it was dedicated, in Burgess's framing, to \"sincerity, spontaneity, and gaiety,\" and reached a national circulation of some three thousand by its second year, widely noticed in the Eastern and Midwestern press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound by itself, Book I represents the first half of the run and arguably the more important half — it contains the Purple Cow, the Stevenson portrait, and the first establishing of the magazine's voice and circle. 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First printing, one of 5,000 copies printed letterpress and sewn at Villiers Publications, London, with the Villiers printer's notice at the rear. 148 pp. Original black and cream stiff-card wrappers in the Pocket Poets house design, the cream front label printed in black, $2.00 price intact on the rear cover. With a contemporary ownership inscription on the front pastedown — \"Michael H. Page. London. xvi. i. mcmlxix\" (16 January 1969) — with his note \"1st Edition 1968,\" placing this London-printed copy in early UK circulation within months of publication. Very good; the wrappers lightly toned at the spine and edges, the sewn binding sound, internally clean and unmarked apart from the inscription.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGinsberg's third major collection in the Pocket Poets Series, gathering the work of the seven years that followed \u003cem\u003eHowl\u003c\/em\u003e's emergence — the years of his travels through India, Japan, and Europe and of his rise as the central public poet of the American counterculture. By 1968 the series Lawrence Ferlinghetti had launched in 1955 with his own \u003cem\u003ePictures of the Gone World\u003c\/em\u003e, and made famous in 1956 with \u003cem\u003eHowl and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (No. 4), had become the principal American platform for Beat poetry; \u003cem\u003eHowl\u003c\/em\u003e (No. 4), \u003cem\u003eKaddish\u003c\/em\u003e (No. 14), and \u003cem\u003ePlanet News\u003c\/em\u003e (No. 23) form Ginsberg's three-volume contribution to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection is dedicated to Neal Cassady — Kerouac's Dean Moriarty and the driver of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters bus — who had died beside railroad tracks outside San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in February 1968, three months before publication; the dedication reads \"to Neal Cassady, again, Spirit to Spirit,\" the \"again\" reaching back to \u003cem\u003eHowl\u003c\/em\u003e. Its central work is \"Wichita Vortex Sutra,\" the long anti-Vietnam-War poem Ginsberg composed in 1966 by dictating into a Uher tape recorder during a cross-country trip through the Midwest, attempting in Whitman's long line to \"declare the End of the War.\" Also here are \"Television was a Baby Crawling Toward that Deathchamber,\" \"Death News\" (on the death of William Carlos Williams), \"The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express\" (1963), \"Kral Majales\" (the 1965 Prague poem written after Czech students crowned him May King and the police deported him), and \"Wales Visitation,\" his 1967 LSD-on-the-hillside ecology poem. Ginsberg's own rear-cover note, signed and dated May 1968, supplies a single-sentence synopsis tracking the book from New York through the Ganges, Prague, the Albert Hall, Kansas, and Wales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-002\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ginsberg, Allen","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459950629025,"sku":"TO-2026-002","price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-002_01.jpg?v=1784606450"},{"product_id":"to-2026-008","title":"The Cruise of the Snark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONDON, Jack.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cruise of the Snark.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. xiv, 340 pp, plus 4 pp of publisher's advertisements. One of 4,265 copies of the first printing (\"Published June, 1911\" on the copyright page, no later printings indicated). Original blue-green ribbed cloth with a color pictorial paste-down label of the Snark to the front board, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and more than one hundred half-tone photographs throughout. As in all known copies, the title page is tipped in, and an extra plate is inserted between pp. 270–271 without appearing in the list of illustrations. BAL 11929; Sisson \u0026amp; Martens p. 57. Very good: the front hinge slightly cracked but the binding firm; a small scratch to the top of the front-board label, the image of the Snark otherwise clean and intact; internally fresh with no foxing, all plates intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon's account of the voyage that nearly killed him. In 1907, at the height of his fame, he commissioned a forty-three-foot boat he named the Snark and set out from Oakland with his wife Charmian and a small crew, meaning to sail around the world over seven years. The vessel was poorly built — it leaked, the engines failed, the bowsprit broke — and London contracted a succession of tropical illnesses that by the end left him barely able to use his hands. The voyage was abandoned at Sydney after roughly two years, scarcely a third of the planned route.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Cruise of the Snark\u003c\/em\u003e is what he made of it: a sequence of essays on Hawaii, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Samoa, the Solomons, and the New Hebrides, closing with his account of being defeated by his own body. The book is dedicated to Charmian, \"the mate of the Snark, who took the wheel … in every emergency.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-008\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"London, Jack","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459950825633,"sku":"TO-2026-008","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-008_01_2121714f-3e6c-44bf-86d1-cb878fcc478b.jpg?v=1783399210"},{"product_id":"to-2026-011","title":"Sleepers Awake (INSCRIBED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePATCHEN, Kenneth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSleepers Awake.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, TRADE ISSUE — INSCRIBED BY PATCHEN, JUNE 1946.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: Padell Book Company, 1946.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInscribed by Patchen on the front free endpaper: \"for Margaret \/ with all the good wishes of \/ Kenneth Patchen \/ June 18, 1946.\" Octavo. 389 pp. Original gray cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge stained black; in the original Patchen-designed pictorial dust jacket, unclipped at $3.50. Morgan A11. Near fine in a very good dust jacket; the binding firm and clean, with no chipping or wear to the jacket spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Patchen's major prose books and among the boldest of his anti-novels. Across its pages he folds narrative into dream-vision, satire into surrealism, and verse into statements of principle, working the visual arrangement of words on the page two decades before concrete poetry became an international movement. Inscribed first editions in the original Patchen-designed jacket are increasingly uncommon in the trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-011\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patchen, Kenneth","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459950923937,"sku":"TO-2026-011","price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-011_01.jpg?v=1785779123"},{"product_id":"to-2026-012","title":"The Journal of Albion Moonlight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePATCHEN, Kenneth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Journal of Albion Moonlight.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION — ONE OF 295 NUMBERED COPIES, THIS NO. 242.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mount Vernon, New York: Walpole Printing Office, 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarge octavo. 314 pp. The numbered issue of 295 copies, following a signed deluxe issue of 50. Set in Bodoni types on specially made paper. Original dark cloth-covered boards with stylized pictorial decoration in blue washes; a red title label to the upper board, gilt-stamped and bordered with decorative pictographs, and a red gilt-stamped paper spine label. This copy number 242. Morgan A3. Very good; the spine faded, else clean and tight; no dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel is the journal of an antiwar pilgrim moving through a landscape of war, surveillance, and cruelty; its formal radicalism — typographic explosion, dream sequences, philosophical fragments, the page increasingly given over to the typeset surface as visual artwork — anticipated by two decades the techniques the Beats and the Black Mountain poets would take up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-012\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patchen, Kenneth","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459950956705,"sku":"TO-2026-012","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-012_01.jpg?v=1785778677"},{"product_id":"to-2026-013","title":"The Plague","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCAMUS, Albert.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Plague.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING — IN A LATER-ISSUE JACKET.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: Alfred A. 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Book very good; jacket very good with light wear, the price intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCamus's masterpiece — the novel that made him a world figure and weighed heavily in the case for his 1957 Nobel Prize. \u003cem\u003eLa Peste\u003c\/em\u003e first appeared in French from Gallimard in 1947, but Camus had been at work on it for years: his notebooks record early notes toward \"the redeeming plague\" in 1941, and he reworked the manuscript through the war, much of it written in occupied southern France while his wife Francine was cut off from him in Algeria. He drew on the historical plague visitations at Oran and set the novel in the 1940s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-013\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camus, Albert","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459950989473,"sku":"TO-2026-013","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-013_01.jpg?v=1784603509"},{"product_id":"to-2026-016","title":"Tortilla Flat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEINBECK, John.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTortilla Flat.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: Covici-Friede, 1935.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. 317 pp. Illustrated throughout by Ruth Gannett. Original oatmeal cloth lettered in blue, top edge stained blue; in the first-issue dust jacket. First-issue points present: the Van Rees Press credit at the foot of the copyright page, with no later-printing indication; and — the point most often missing — Steinbeck's biography on the rear jacket flap, which later printings replaced with blurbs. Front-flap price $2.50, unclipped. Goldstone \u0026amp; Payne A4b (the trade edition, one of 4,000 copies). Housed in a custom clamshell box with gilt lettering to a white leather spine. Fine in a very good-plus dust jacket; some fading to the spine, two short tape reinforcements to the verso, two small chips and a short closed tear at the lower front edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book that made Steinbeck. Three earlier books had passed largely unnoticed; this one — a loose, comic chronicle of the paisanos of Monterey, framed as a sly retelling of Arthurian legend, with Danny and his friends as the knights — became his first real critical and commercial success. The trade edition ran 4,000 copies, and far fewer survive in their original first-issue jackets. A fine copy in a strong first-issue jacket — with Steinbeck's biography intact on the rear flap — housed in a custom clamshell box is the form in which collectors want this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-016\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steinbeck, John","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459951055009,"sku":"TO-2026-016","price":7000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-016_01.jpg?v=1785776341"},{"product_id":"to-2026-019","title":"The Forgotten Village: Life in a Mexican Village (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEINBECK, John.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Forgotten Village: Life in a Mexican Village.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION (SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION) — SIGNED BY STEINBECK.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: The Viking Press, 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarge octavo. 143 pp. Signed by John Steinbeck on the title page. Illustrated with 136 black-and-white photographs by Rosa Harvan Kline and Alexander Hackenschmied, from Herbert Kline's film of the same name. Original cream buckram stamped and decorated in green, top edges stained green; in the original color pictorial dust jacket with the $2.50 price intact and unclipped to the front flap. Goldstone \u0026amp; Payne A14a. \"Second Printing Before Publication\" stated on the copyright page — the state most copies bear, printed before the official publication date and bibliographically equivalent to the first for collecting purposes; the work was published on the same day in Canada by Macmillan. Very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket: light foxing to the covers and offsetting to the inner covers; the jacket complete, with wear and small chips to the spine ends and some darkening to the rear panel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteinbeck wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Forgotten Village\u003c\/em\u003e as the screenplay for Herbert Kline's 1941 docufiction film — a project he pursued specifically to make a picture outside the Hollywood studio system, drawing on his deep engagement with Mexico. The film follows Juan Diego, a boy in a remote mountain village, as modern medicine arrives in conflict with traditional practice. Signed copies of \u003cem\u003eThe Forgotten Village\u003c\/em\u003e are uncommon; the title-page signature here is clean and unobtrusive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-019\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steinbeck, John","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459951120545,"sku":"TO-2026-019","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-019_01.jpg?v=1785778565"},{"product_id":"to-2026-020","title":"The Shirley Letters from California Mines In 1851-52","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCLAPPE, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith (\"Dame Shirley\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851–52.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZAMORANO EIGHTY — FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, ONE OF 450 NUMBERED COPIES, THIS NO. 121 OF 200 ON EXETER BOOK-PAPER.\u003c\/strong\u003e San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, at his Private Press, 1922.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first appearance in book form of the celebrated Dame Shirley letters — twenty-three letters written between September 1851 and November 1852 from the gold-mining camps of Rich Bar and Indian Bar on the Feather River, addressed to her sister in Massachusetts and first published serially in \u003cem\u003eThe Pioneer\u003c\/em\u003e magazine of San Francisco in 1854–55 under the pseudonym Dame Shirley. One of 450 numbered copies signed by the publisher; this is No. 121 of the first 200 printed on Exeter book-paper, the balance of the edition on buff California bond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo (9¼ × 6¼ inches). [l], 350 pp. Printed by hand by Thomas C. Russell at his private press in San Francisco, with eight full-page hand-colored plates by M. Buehler (including the frontispiece), each protected by an original tissue guard, and with decorative chapter headings, initials, and ornamental friezes in deep blue. Original tan linen spine over blue-grey paper-covered boards, a gilt vignette of a miner with pickaxe beneath a sunburst to the upper board, printed paper spine label; in the publisher's blue-grey dust jacket with gilt lettering. A spare duplicate spine label is tipped to the rear interior — Russell's customary provision for his limited editions, intact here. Fine in the original dust jacket; boards clean, square, and bright, the gilt fresh, the spine label crisp, the interior fresh with all eight plates and tissue guards present and intact. The jacket — a fragile pictorial wrapper that rarely survives on the 1922 issue — is unusually well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLouise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819–1906) was a New England–educated woman who sailed around Cape Horn to California in 1849 with her physician husband, Fayette, and followed him into the diggings in 1851. 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The 1919 inscription — three years after publication and a year after the Armistice — carries the same wartime feeling forward, with Sterling's \"Damn the Kaiser!\" The three author's ink corrections, the inscription and inscribed half-title, and the scarce dust jacket in unusually fine state make this a strong association copy of one of Sterling's wartime books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-022\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sterling, George","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459951218849,"sku":"TO-2026-022","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-022_01.jpg?v=1784613481"},{"product_id":"to-2026-023","title":"John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir (INSCRIPTION)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMUIR, John. 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Laid in separately is an original silver gelatin photograph of a young man, identified in period ink on the verso as Neil Muir. Tipped in at the contents leaf is a reproduction of Muir's pen-and-ink \"Live Oak\" drawing from his first journal, captioned in his hand \"Live Oak, W. 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The novel draws closely, and controversially, on the actual letters of Mary Hallock Foote, the nineteenth-century writer-illustrator on whom Stegner based the character of Susan Burling Ward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stegner, Wallace","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459951284385,"sku":"TO-2026-024","price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-024_01.jpg?v=1785774660"},{"product_id":"to-2026-026","title":"The Cruise of the Corwin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMUIR, John.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cruise of the Corwin.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, TRADE ISSUE.\u003c\/strong\u003e Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. xxxi, 279 pp. Edited by William Frederic Badè. Original pale green cloth over boards, with a color pictorial label of the Corwin in Arctic ice (after a painting by Denny) mounted to the front board, white lettering, top edge gilt. Illustrated with photogravure plates from photographs — several by Edward S. Curtis — and with drawings from Muir's own sketches; appendices on glaciation and botany; one map of Wrangell Land. In the original publisher's pictorial dust jacket, priced $2.75 to the spine, unclipped. Kimes 348; BAL 14775; Arctic Bibliography 11838. Book very good, binding tight and internally clean; dust jacket good, with chipping and short tears at the spine head and corners but the pictorial artwork and $2.75 price intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuir's Arctic journal, published posthumously by his literary executor. In the summer of 1881 the U.S. Revenue Cutter Corwin sailed from San Francisco into the Bering Sea, charged with searching for the lost Jeannette expedition under Commander George W. De Long and with resupplying the whaling and trading stations along the Alaskan and Siberian coasts. Captain Calvin L. Hooper invited Muir to join as the cruise's naturalist. Muir kept a daily journal and sent letters to the San Francisco \u003cem\u003eDaily Evening Bulletin\u003c\/em\u003e recording glaciers, plant life, and the Aleut and Chukchi villages, as the Corwin worked north toward Wrangell Land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-026\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Muir, John","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459951349921,"sku":"TO-2026-026","price":685.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-026_02.jpg?v=1783703951"},{"product_id":"to-2026-027","title":"John Steinbeck: A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Adrian H. 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Payne.\" Hand-titled \"Steinbeck\" on the acetate spine in Payne's hand. Near fine: cloth bright and unmarked, hinges firm, contents clean throughout; the acetate jacket present with light wear, some toning, a tear at the lower spine, and a small piece missing to the upper rear cover (the book itself unaffected).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoldstone assembled what was for decades the finest private Steinbeck collection in existence; in 1974 it passed to the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin (now the Harry Ransom Center), and Payne, then a librarian there, produced this catalogue documenting it. G\u0026amp;P describes virtually every collectible Steinbeck edition with bibliographic precision — including the hard-to-identify book club editions and the foreign translations — and has remained the working bibliography of the trade for half a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the co-author's own copy. Payne's inscription, written the day he sent copy one to Goldstone, places it second in the sequence in which the 1,200 copies left the press — and records the moment a forty-year California collection, catalogued from Texas, was made permanent in print. Inscribed copies of G\u0026amp;P are uncommon; one that is also the co-author's working copy, dated within the production sequence, is a singular survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-027\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldstone, Adrian H., and John R. 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First edition, hors de commerce copy lettered \"E\" — one of 20 lettered copies issued alongside the 50-copy numbered deluxe edition (which adds a portfolio of two Mora cartes) and the 295-copy numbered trade edition. Signed by Peter Hiller, editor Gail Jones, and printer Norman Clayton on the colophon. Afterword by Gary F. Kurutz. Large quarto, 9 × 12¼ inches, 192 pp. Color and black-and-white photographic illustrations throughout. Designed and letterpress printed by Norman Clayton of Classic Letterpress, Ojai, with Molly Dedmond; hand-bound by Klaus Rötzscher of Pettingell Book Bindery, Berkeley. Quarter linen spine over brown paper-covered boards, with a mounted photographic portrait of Mora on the upper board; in the brown cloth publisher's slipcase. Publisher's prospectus with order sheet laid in. Fine, as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first full-length biography of Joseph Jacinto Mora (1876–1947), the Uruguayan-born artist who reached California in 1900, lived among the Hopi in Arizona, rode the ranges of the American West, and settled on the Monterey Peninsula as the most prolific and various Western artist of his generation. From his Pebble Beach studio Mora produced the Serra Cenotaph at the Carmel Mission, the design of the 1925 California Diamond Jubilee half-dollar, murals and architectural sculpture across the West, his celebrated pictorial maps — cartes, as he called them — of California, the missions, and the Seventeen Mile Drive, and decades of illustration. Peter Hiller, curator of the Jo Mora Trust and the foremost authority on the artist, drew on Mora's own diaries, journals, and letters — much of it published here for the first time. The Book Club's 238th publication was oversubscribed on release, and copies in any issue have been uncommon since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-028\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hiller, Peter","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459951415457,"sku":"TO-2026-028","price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-028_01.jpg?v=1785775843"},{"product_id":"to-2026-031","title":"Fourteenth Anniversary of the Society of California Pioneers: Oration by Rev. Henry W. Bellows; Poem by Frank Bret Harte","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHARTE, Bret; BELLOWS, Henry W.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFourteenth Anniversary of the Society of California Pioneers. Oration by Rev. Henry W. 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The visiting orator was Henry Whitney Bellows, the New York Unitarian minister who founded the U.S. Sanitary Commission to aid Civil War soldiers; Harte supplied the poem of the day. The Alta California Book and Job Office gathered both texts, with the newspaper's account of the celebration, into this pamphlet in printed wrappers. The George Clinton Ward bookplate lends the copy further California provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-031\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harte, Bret","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459951513761,"sku":"TO-2026-031","price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-031_02.jpg?v=1785777844"},{"product_id":"to-2026-032","title":"Where Shall I Take You To: The Love Letters of Una and Robinson Jeffers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJEFFERS, Una; JEFFERS, Robinson.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere Shall I Take You To: The Love Letters of Una and Robinson Jeffers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eONE OF 225 NUMBERED COPIES — THIS COPY #86.\u003c\/strong\u003e Covelo, California: The Yolla Bolly Press, 1987.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. Octavo. 123 pp. Edited by Robert Kafka, with a foreword by Garth Jeffers. Designed and printed at The Yolla Bolly Press by James and Carolyn Robertson, composed in Eric Gill's Perpetua and printed on Ragston paper. One of 225 numbered copies on Ragston (this copy #86), with a deluxe issue on Umbria handmade paper bound and signed separately. Full peach cloth with a lettered paper label to the spine; in the publisher's brown board slipcase. Several tipped-in sepia reproductions of early photographs of Una and Robinson. 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Small octavo, unpaginated, [16] pp. One of 226 numbered copies hand-bound in boards by Black Sparrow and signed by Bukowski on the colophon, issued as the press's annual New Year's Greeting to its friends and customers. Quarter purple cloth over illustrated paper boards depicting a stylized polychrome bird in flight, with \"1991\" worked into the design; the title-page colophon printed in colors. A small additional run of presentation copies — with a Bukowski drawing and a different cloth spine — exists separately. Fine, as new: bright cloth, clean boards, the signature crisp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA late Bukowski small-format greeting from Black Sparrow Press, part of the annual tradition John Martin maintained from the series' beginnings in 1969–70 through Bukowski's death in 1994. Each year Martin printed a slim pamphlet of new Bukowski work — a single poem or short prose piece — and sent it to the press's friends and customers, with a signed, numbered hardcover issue of 226 copies reserved for collectors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Black Sparrow New Year's pamphlets are now among the most collected items in Bukowski's bibliography — both for their small print runs and because the annual sequence documents, year by year, the work of the press that built him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-033\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bukowski, Charles","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459951579297,"sku":"TO-2026-033","price":425.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-033_01.jpg?v=1785795834"},{"product_id":"to-2026-034","title":"Holograph Note to M.B. 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Octavo. 19 pp. Frontispiece photographic portrait of Steinbeck by Paul Farber. Edited and introduced by Robert F. Hanson, September 1986. Dark brown buckram spine over brown cloth boards, with a cream paper title label to the front cover; without dust jacket as issued. ISBN 0-912109-10-6. Goldstone \u0026amp; Payne C120 (for the 1955 \u003cem\u003eHoliday\u003c\/em\u003e original). A fine copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first separate book-form appearance of Steinbeck's \u003cem\u003eHoliday\u003c\/em\u003e magazine essay on his birthplace, published in June 1955 as part of the magazine's series in which American writers reflected on the towns of their childhood. Steinbeck had finished \u003cem\u003eEast of Eden\u003c\/em\u003e three years earlier, and the essay carries the same complicated feeling for Salinas that runs through the novel — fond, exact, and unsparing at once. He summons the Salinas of his own boyhood in the 1900s and 1910s and traces the town forward into the post-war agricultural city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpuscula Press, a small Florida imprint that reissued fugitive Steinbeck material, produced this hand-bound edition \"as a service to Steinbeck collectors.\" It remains one of the more attractive small-press Steinbeck productions, uncommon on the market and sought by collectors building deep California shelves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-035\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steinbeck, John","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459951644833,"sku":"TO-2026-035","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-035_01.jpg?v=1785776660"},{"product_id":"to-2026-036","title":"Those Marvelous Lunches (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBUKOWSKI, Charles.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThose Marvelous Lunches.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIGNED, NUMBERED #190 OF 226 — WITH THE SOFTCOVER COMPANION.\u003c\/strong\u003e Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press, January 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1993 Black Sparrow Press New Year's Greeting, here in two issue states: the numbered hardcover, limited to 226 hand-bound copies signed by Bukowski on the colophon, this being copy #190; together with a fine copy of the softcover trade edition in matching cream-and-shooting-star wrappers. Small octavo, approximately 7.5 × 4.5 inches. The hardcover in cream cloth spine over illustrated paper-covered boards in cream, silver, and gold; the softcover in the identical illustrated wrappers. Both copies fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title poem returns him to the schoolyards of his Los Angeles boyhood — the paper-bag lunch, the daily humiliation of being poor among classmates — and closes on a note of plain tenderness that sits oddly and powerfully against the public Bukowski. 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Quarter black cloth over printed paper-covered boards, top edge red, in the publisher's orange-striped pictorial dust jacket. Cloth separated at the rear joint; the dust jacket with staining to the front flap and edge wear; a fair-to-good copy of an uncommon inscribed first edition. Shifreen \u0026amp; Jackson A66a.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenry Miller considered \u003cem\u003eThe Smile at the Foot of the Ladder\u003c\/em\u003e the most peculiar of all the stories he had written — a short fable of Auguste, a clown who could make audiences laugh but longed to give them a lasting joy. The text originated in a 1938 commission from the painter Fernand Léger, who asked Miller to write an accompaniment to a planned graphic cycle of clown and circus drawings; Léger ultimately set the text aside as unsuitable, and Miller arranged independent publication with Duell, Sloan \u0026amp; Pearce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1948 edition is the true first, in a striking Merle Armitage design, illustrated throughout with reproductions of clown and circus artworks by Chagall, Klee, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Dunoyer de Segonzac, and other masters, together with a facsimile of two pages of Miller's corrected typescript. Miller wrote it during his Big Sur years — he had settled on the California coast in 1944 and would remain until 1962 — the period that also produced \u003cem\u003eBig Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch\u003c\/em\u003e. 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San Francisco: The Scrimshaw Press, 1971.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e8vo. 78 pp. Red cloth-backed boards in the photo-illustrated dust jacket. With prefaces by Robinson Jeffers and Una Jeffers and a foreword by Frederick Mitchell. A near fine copy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAn association copy of real depth: presented to the man who introduced Lyon to his printer, with the laid-in postcard recording that exact gift two weeks before the book existed. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eInscribed by Horace Lyon on the front endpaper: \"For Peter Bartlett, with deep appreciation for his having introduced me to Fred Mitchell and his wondrous Scrimshaw Press that made this book possible. Carmel, 10 November 1971. 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The first edition of two thousand copies was reduced by fire, roughly a thousand sets of unbound sheets destroyed; copies in the original publisher's dust jacket are exceptionally scarce, and an unopened copy in jacket is among the strongest survivals available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-054 \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smith, Clark Ashton","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459952267425,"sku":"TO-2026-054","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-054_01.jpg?v=1784609121"},{"product_id":"to-2026-056","title":"Under the Redwoods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHARTE, Bret. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnder the Redwoods.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e (BAL 7396). 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New York: Green Circle Books, 1937.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOctavo. 255 pp. Red cloth in the publisher's color-illustrated dust jacket. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe book belongs to the broader 1930s San Francisco crime tradition associated with Dashiell Hammett and his contemporaries — writers who turned the working geography of the city into genre material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Depression-era San Francisco crime novel, here in its scarce original color-illustrated dust jacket. Ned Anderson, a wealthy young San Francisco playboy, returns from a round-the-world trip to find that his attorney has swindled him out of his fortune and that the attorney's secretary has been kidnapped; Anderson hires the private detective Simon Crole, and the case turns on a victim who meets the same fate twice over. It is hardboiled San Francisco crime in the staccato manner of its decade, written in the years when the pulp magazines were feeding a generation of writers into hardback genre fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreen Circle Books was a small Depression-era hardback house, and copies of its titles in the original jackets are uncommon; \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Was Murdered Twice\u003c\/em\u003e in jacket is among the less frequently encountered. 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Slight darkening to the spine, else fine in a fine dust jacket. BAL 10701.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Henry James's earliest tales, gathered into book form only after his death. James wrote \u003cem\u003eGabrielle de Bergerac\u003c\/em\u003e at twenty-six; it ran serially across three 1869 issues of the \u003cem\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e (July–September) and was never collected during his lifetime. The story is one of the very few James set before his own century: pre-Revolutionary France around the 1750s, an aristocratic young woman and her brother's tutor, a love divided by class, and the shadow of the Terror to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition carries a further point of bibliographical interest: it was issued as the first volume of Boni and Liveright's \"Penguin Series,\" and the jacket flap presents it as such — a short-lived American imprint unrelated to, and predating by nearly two decades, Allen Lane's British Penguin Books of 1935. 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New York and London: Harper \u0026amp; Brothers, 1928.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOctavo. [viii], 69, [1] pp. Quarter ivory linen over gray paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label. A near fine copy: light toning to the board edges, characteristic of the ivory linen; armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Housed in the original publisher's slipcase, which is soiled, and lacking its spine; the book itself sound and attractive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Millay's major collections, issued in the prestige form Harper produced alongside the ordinary trade hardcover: handmade Arches paper, a quarter-linen binding, slipcase, and a colophon limitation signed by the poet herself. The collection holds several poems that entered the standard canon of twentieth-century American verse, among them \"Moriturus,\" \"On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven,\" and the title poem, which remains one of the most anthologized of her shorter works. The volume sits at the hinge between her early Greenwich Village lyric brilliance and the more politically engaged poetry that followed her involvement in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trade hardcover of \u003cem\u003eThe Buck in the Snow\u003c\/em\u003e is common. 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Minor wear to the dust jackets, one price-clipped; otherwise fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three volumes: \u003cem\u003eLove Letter from an Impossible Land\u003c\/em\u003e (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944), the Yale Series of Younger Poets selection chosen by Archibald MacLeish, here the second printing; \u003cem\u003eShips and Other Figures\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948), first edition, inscribed at Los Angeles in 1953; and \u003cem\u003eThe Open Sea and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958), the limited first edition, one of 1,000 copies printed from type and designed by Harry Ford. Each volume is inscribed by the poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether with: a full-page autograph poem, \"To Absent Friends,\" signed and dated May 1954; an inscribed postcard bearing the complete poem \"A Sensible Snowfall on Two Japanese Maples in Connecticut,\" dated Christmas 1958; a substantial typed letter signed; an autograph letter signed; and two leaves from a Colorado River journal. Also included: \u003cem\u003eReasons for Poetry \u0026amp; The Reason for Criticism\u003c\/em\u003e (Washington: Library of Congress, 1982), the published text of Meredith's two lectures as Consultant in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-088\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meredith, William","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459953447073,"sku":"TO-2026-088","price":525.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-088_04.jpg?v=1784611282"},{"product_id":"to-2026-089","title":"Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book (INSCRIBED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e KURTZMAN, Harvey. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST KITCHEN SINK PRESS EDITION, FIRST PRINTING\u003c\/strong\u003e. Princeton, Wisconsin: Kitchen Sink Press, 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eInscribed copies are uncommon, and Kurtzman's habit of adding a small drawing to an inscription makes this a characteristic example of his hand. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eInscribed by Kurtzman on the front free endpaper: \"Pretty Wild Stuff for Stanley Simon. H. Kurtz,\" with his characteristic small stick-figure drawing. A fine copy of an influential book. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTall octavo. 140 pp. Color-illustrated glossy boards, issued without dust jacket as published. Introduction by Art Spiegelman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe deluxe hardcover reissue of a foundational work of American comics. Kurtzman first published \u003cem\u003eJungle Book\u003c\/em\u003e in 1959 as a Ballantine paperback — the first mass-market paperback composed entirely of original comics, and his bid to make comics an adult literary form. This 1986 edition with the pages reproduced at the size in which Kurtzman had originally drawn them, and carried a new introduction by Art Spiegelman, placing \u003cem\u003eJungle Book\u003c\/em\u003e as a demonstration of what the comics medium could do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-089\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kurtzman, Harvey","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459953479841,"sku":"TO-2026-089","price":375.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-089_01.jpg?v=1785777309"},{"product_id":"to-2026-090","title":"Nothing So Monstrous","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEINBECK, John. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNothing So Monstrous.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST SEPARATE EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e, limited to 370 copies. 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Giles December Nineteen Thirty-Six.\" With an additional presentation inscription by Beinecke to the front free endpaper, and Beinecke's own gilt and red leather bookplate to the front pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story tracks a Salinas Valley intellectual who refuses every form of upward economic mobility, raises his son in studied poverty, and is shamed into leaving the valley after the school board's clumsy charity toward his ragged child; the 1936 epilogue, unique to this printing, restores father and son to their idyllic life in the Pastures. Pynson Printers, the New York fine-press shop run by Elmer Adler, produced the book as a Christmas keepsake for a small group of subscribing collectors who paid for blocks of copies to give as gifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-090\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steinbeck, John","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459953774753,"sku":"TO-2026-090","price":1330.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-090_01.jpg?v=1785776544"},{"product_id":"to-2026-091","title":"The Preacher and the Slave","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEGNER, Wallace. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Preacher and the Slave.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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The book is part biography, part fictional reconstruction, and part Stegner's own working through of how a movement creates its martyrs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-091\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stegner, Wallace","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459953807521,"sku":"TO-2026-091","price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-091_01.jpg?v=1785771952"},{"product_id":"to-2026-093","title":"Strange Waters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTERLING, George.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStrange Waters.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION,\u003c\/strong\u003e limited to 150 copies. 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BAL 18827; Mattila A29.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA privately printed pamphlet from the last year of George Sterling's life, in a copy he appears to have gone over and corrected himself — a habit well attested in his privately printed and presentation copies. \u003cem\u003eStrange Waters\u003c\/em\u003e was privately printed in San Francisco in an edition of just 150 copies and advertised in the August 1926 issue of the \u003cem\u003eOverland Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e (Johnson, p. 38). Small private printings of this kind are the scarcest part of Sterling's bibliography — his major collections circulated widely, but a slim silk-tied pamphlet like this survives in far fewer hands. 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