{"product_id":"to-2026-144","title":"The Pearl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEINBECK, John.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Pearl.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: The Viking Press, December 1947.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall 8vo. [4], 122, [2] pp. With drawings throughout by José Clemente Orozco. Original cloth, the front board with a stamped illustration in black, spine lettered in gilt on a black ground, top edge stained green as issued. In the original unclipped first-issue dust jacket priced $2.00 on the front flap — the pearl-scalloped teal panel on a rust-red ground, the rear panel with the sepia portrait of Steinbeck (credited \"Photo by Breitenbach\"), Steinbeck facing to his own left, the first-issue point. Goldstone \u0026amp; Payne A25a. In its original first-issue jacket, protected in an archival sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteinbeck's most-read shorter work, and the only one of his books illustrated by José Clemente Orozco — the great Mexican muralist, then in the last years of his life, whose black-ink figure drawings carry the parable's weight as much as the prose does. Set on the Baja California coast near La Paz, \u003cem\u003eThe Pearl\u003c\/em\u003e follows Kino, his wife Juana, and their infant son Coyotito after Kino finds the great pearl — and learns that everything around him will rearrange itself to take it from him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-144\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steinbeck, John","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459955904673,"sku":"TO-2026-144","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-144_02_4066881a-a933-48b5-a574-d76a676d2278.jpg?v=1783386778","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-144","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}