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Sea of Cortez by Steinbeck 1st cloth issue in dj
Sea of Cortez by Steinbeck 1st cloth issue in dj
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Author: Steinbeck, John & Edward F. Ricketts
Title: Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Viking
Date Published: 1941
Description:

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Illustrations from color and black and white photographs, drawings and charts; map endpapers. (8vo), green cloth lettered in silver on front cover and spine, top edge orange, dust jacket. First Edition, cloth issue.

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First published edition, being the first to print the text in its entirety (the first edition in wrappers which preceded this only printed half of the text and actually constituted an advance copy, according to Bradford Morrow). The book is a description of the visit Steinbeck and Ricketts made to the Gulf of California on the "Western Flyer," a 76-foot purser seiner, to collect marine invertebrates in March and April of 1940. Goldstone & Payne A15.b.

Condition
Jacket lightly edge worn with a few small chips and short tears, price clipped from front flap, residue from bookplate paste on verso of front free endpaper, bookplate now loose; volume near fine, jacket very good.
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