{"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","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-016","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}