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Steinbeck & Ricketts Sea of Cortez 1st Ed. in dj

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Title: Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
Author: Steinbeck, John & Edward F. Ricketts
Description: Illustrated from color and black and white photographs, drawings and charts; map endpapers. 8vo. Green cloth lettered in silver on front cover and spine, jacket. First Edition, cloth issue.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.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 1941