Description
The first edition, first printing of The Pearl by John Steinbeck, in the publisher’s first state dust jacket.
Small octavo, [4], 122pp, [2]. Brown cloth, printed title on spine, illustration on front cover. The first printing with “Published by the Viking Press in December 1947” stated on the copyright page. Bumped top edge at the center of the text block. Top edge dyed green. Internally clean, solid text block. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $2.00 retail price, Steinbeck “looking to his right” on the rear panel, short closed tear along front hinge flap, bright illustrations, a near fine example.
(Goldstone & Payne, A25a)
The Pearl first appeared in The Women’s Home Companion, in December of 1945. The first English edition was published in 1948 by William Heinemann LTD.
