Travels with Charley.

STEINBECK, John.

$7,800.00

Item Number: 142958

New York: The Viking Press, 1962.

First edition of Steinbeck’s beloved cross-country narrative. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Freeman. Photographs of Steinbeck by Hans Namuth. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery.

This much loved chronicle of Steinbeck’s rediscovery of America, published the same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, is “undoubtedly [his] most popular non-fiction work” (Gross Hayman, 50). On publication in 1962, New York Times reviewer “Eric Goldman wrote that Travels with Charley ‘is pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places” (Railsback and Meyer, 397). “What other writer of his time had been able to touch America’s soul in both the 30s and the 60s?” (Benson, 913). Goldstone & Payne A39. Salinas Public Library, 50. Valentine 262. Bruccoli & Clark I:356.