OF MICE AND MEN - John Steinbeck, 1937 - BCE
$125.00
Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.
Of Mice and Men 1937. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 12 mo., 186 pp. Brown cloth over boards with brown titles on cover and spine. No dust jacket. Spine is sunned/faded. Titles not present. Previous owner's name in pen on ffep. Damp stain to spine that arries to text block (see photos). Binding is secure. No other interior marks or foxing (beyond stain at spine)."Printed ..by the Haddon Craftsmen" on the copyright page, designating this a Book Club Edition. Printed the same year (1937) as the 1st edition, with all errors corrected (p. 9 and 88).
Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.
Of Mice and Men 1937. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 12 mo., 186 pp. Brown cloth over boards with brown titles on cover and spine. No dust jacket. Spine is sunned/faded. Titles not present. Previous owner's name in pen on ffep. Damp stain to spine that arries to text block (see photos). Binding is secure. No other interior marks or foxing (beyond stain at spine)."Printed ..by the Haddon Craftsmen" on the copyright page, designating this a Book Club Edition. Printed the same year (1937) as the 1st edition, with all errors corrected (p. 9 and 88).
Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.
Of Mice and Men 1937. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 12 mo., 186 pp. Brown cloth over boards with brown titles on cover and spine. No dust jacket. Spine is sunned/faded. Titles not present. Previous owner's name in pen on ffep. Damp stain to spine that arries to text block (see photos). Binding is secure. No other interior marks or foxing (beyond stain at spine)."Printed ..by the Haddon Craftsmen" on the copyright page, designating this a Book Club Edition. Printed the same year (1937) as the 1st edition, with all errors corrected (p. 9 and 88).