Description
First edition, first printing of Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts, an attractive copy.
Octavo, [6], vii-x, 598pp. Green cloth, title stamped in silver on spine and front panel. The first printing, with “First Published in December 1941.” Top edge dyed pink. Illustrated endpapers with maps of Baja California. Complete with 40 photographic plates, 8 in color. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $5.00 on front flap, short closed tear along bottom edge of front panel, bright illustrations, a near fine example.
(Goldstone & Payne A15b)
