Book with tape residue on front free endpaper (to the right of signature and at the bottom of the page) and rear free endpaper otherwise fine. The Original Cover for Steinbecks Classic Novella, Of Mice and Men (1937), printed directly onto a Vintage Dictionary Page dating from the time of the. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket.
Both the text and the critically acclaimed 1937 Broadway play (which won the Drama Critics Circle Award for best play that year) made Steinbeck a household name.” ( American National Biography) “This ‘play-novelette,’ a book that intended to be both a novella and a script for a play, is a tightly drafted study of bindle stiffs whose dreams he intended to represent the universal longings for a home, ‘the earth longings of a Lennie who was not to represent insanity at all but the inarticulate and powerful yearning of all men,’ he wrote his agent. We got each other, that's what, that gives a hoot in hell about us." Lennie cried in triumph.įIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, SIGNED on the front free endpaper: “For Katherine Lowry / John Steinbeck”. They ain't got nobody in the worl' that gives a hoot in hell about 'em -"
They make a little stake an' then they blow it in. The original cartoon takeoff on Of Mice and Men is probably Tex Averys Of Fox. Lennie said craftily, "Tell me like you done before." Cartoons from the August 8, 2022, Issue So, a belated welcome to my life.
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