The Servants of Twilight. by Koontz, Dean R

Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1958, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. The first full-length critical study of Steinbeck, Goldstone & Payne F42, Morrow 591, very scarce in the first printing, this is a Review Copy with review slip, very scarce thus. Fine in a very good jacket.

Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1964, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Includes Robert Stone's first book appearance, Geraldine, as well as Walk Don't Run, both "excerpted from a novel which will be published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in the Fall of 1965," Colberg B13, one of 1,000 copies, although not called for, this copy is Signed by Wallace Stegner. Ink name, else fine in a very good jacket.

Washington, D. C., Government Printing Office, January 20, 1965, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. With frontispiece photo portrait of LBJ with a facsimile of his signature, although he is not credited as such, Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck contributed to this speech, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne. Fine.

n.p. (NY), RCA Victor, 1955, first edition.. This is an original cast recording of Pipe Dream which was adapted from Steinbeck's novel, Sweet Thursday, by Rodgers and Hammerstein II, No. EP EOC-1023, includes three 45 rpm records housed in a folding slipcase, this copy carries the "SPECIAL ADVANCE EDITION" sticker on the front which some believe makes this a promotional copy, but, according to Miles Kreuger, president of the Institute of the American Musical, the cover credits omitted Judy Tyler's credit, these first issue album covers were then "fixed" by adding the advance edition label, inside liner notes by Rudolph Elie, Pipe Dream was presented in a number of formats, including this one, but none were in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, this format not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or the Morrow catalogue. Records are fine, slipcase is near fine.

San Jose, Steinbeck Research Center, Feb. 27, 1985, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. One of 500 numbered copies edited by Dr. Robert DeMott, this is a letter from Steinbeck to family friend and fellow writer Dennis Murphy, with a prospectus for the book laid in loosely, issued on what would have been Steinbeck's 83rd birthday as a fund-raiser for the Steinbeck Research Center at San Jose State University. As new, unread.

NY, Viking, 1947, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Second issue binding with the blindstamp on front cover the same shade as the rest of the binding, although a lot of readers get lost in Steinbeck's symbolism at the end of the book, it has broad moments when his writing is as sharp as ever, jacket designed by Robert Hallock, Goldstone & Payne A23a, variant 2, this binding not recorded by Morrow. Fine in a jacket with some soiling to rear panel, else fine.

Sausalito, Contact Editions, 1961, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. With comment from various sources selected by Evan S. Connell, Jr.," profusely illustrated with photos by Jerry Stoll, inspired by Edward Steichen's Family of Man, most of the photos were taken during a six-month period near Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, this copy Inscribed by both Stoll and Connell, scarce. Very good.

London, Heinemann, 1951, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Jacket designed by Biro, Steinbeck provides his own foreword to this third of his play/novelette experiments, Goldstone & Payne A29b, Morrow 207. A rather cheaply produced book, thus nearly fine in a clipped jacket with some wear at extremities and some tape reinforcements to the verso.

NY, Crown, 1946, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Includes Frank Butler's screenplay for A Medal for Benny in its entirety, includes credits, setting, and text, 589-648, it also includes b&w photos from the film which was based on a story by John Steinbeck and his boyhood friend, Max Wagner, Goldstone & Payne B45, not recorded by Morrow, it also includes the screenplays for Lost Weekend, Spellbound, Double Indemnity (Raymond Chandler), and several others. Very good.

NY, Viking, 1962, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Part history, part fiction, part memory of the last plains frontier, evocative of Stegner's sense of place, Colberg A16.1.a. Fine in a price-clipped jacket that is ever so slightly darkened along the spine, else especially bright and clean.