Description
First edition, first printing of Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.
Octavo, [6], 208pp, [2]. Orange cloth, title in blue on front cover and spine. Blue topstain. Stated “First Published… January 1945” on copyright page. Solid text block, lightly bumped corners, faint offsetting to endpapers, a near fine example. In the publisher’s dust jacket, price-clipped, chipped along perimeter and spine. Reinforced with archival tape on verso. Jacket design by Arthur Hawkins, Jr. bright and clean.
