Accession number:
PML 187144
Published:
[New York] : Viking Press, 1950.
Description:
73 leaves ; 31 x 19 cm
Credit:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes:
Title from cover label and caption text at head of galley sheets.
Book published under title: Burning bright.
Uncorrected proofs from galleys of Steinbecks novella Burning bright.
"Publication date: November 1950 ... Unrevised proofs. Confidential. Please do not quote for publication until verified with finished book."--Label mounted on front cover.
Library's copy housed in red cloth clamshell box.
Binding:
Leaves perforated and tied at head with book tape; plain brown paper cover leaves with publisher's label and printed announcement of publication taped to front.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Author's inscription in ink at head of first leaf: This is for Tamara Geva(?) With love John Steinbeck [with his sketch of a bird added below his signature].
Provenance:
Tamara Geva?; Carter Burden.
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