STEINBECK, John (1902-68). Cannery Row, New York, 1945, 8vo, original yellow cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, second issue.

STEINBECK, John (1902-68).  Cannery Row. New York: The Viking Press, January 1945. 8vo (187 x120mm). Half title, one-page list of works at the end. Original bright yellow cloth lettered and ruled in blue, dust-jacket by Arthur Hawkins with price of $2.00 unclipped (dust-jacket with pieces torn away from head and foot of backstrip with loss of most of the author's name at the top, tear without loss to lower wrapper, edges rubbed, some chipping and fraying). Provenance: Jack Copland (bookplate and pencil signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION, second issue binding. "In Cannery Row John Steinbeck brings forth ... a world of his own, joyously conceived, with characters as universal as human nature. Here Steinbeck creates American folklore" (from the lower wrapper of the dust-jacket). Goldstone and Payne A22b; Valentine 174.