The Red Pony.

STEINBECK, John.

$300.00

Item Number: 146183

New York: The Viking Press, 1945.

First illustrated edition of Steinbeck’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, with illustrations by Wesley Dennis. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the spine and slight bumping to the crown and foot of the spine.

The three interconnected stories in this volume (a fourth was added in the 1945 edition) won praise on publication as "pure gold… all three of these stories have more depth, intensity and variety than one could possibly anticipate" (New York Times Book Review). To biographer Jackson Benson, they "act as a moral fulcrum… These stories, with their child observer, examine the nature of life and of death and the relationship of the individual to the whole" (True Adventures, 288).