{"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","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-019","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}