The Long Valley.

STEINBECK, John.

Item Number: 92578

New York: The Viking Press, 1938.

First edition of Steinbeck’s collection of 13 stories, which includes “The Red Pony” and “St. Katy the Virgin.” Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Elmer Hader.

"The value of The Long Valley… Steinbeck's second and arguably best collection of short stories… cannot be overestimated" (Railsback & Meyer, 214-15). Upon publication, the 13 stories in The Long Valley earned Steinbeck high praise as "one of the most richly promising novelists" of his generation (New York Herald Tribune). The Long Valley contains "some of the best writing Steinbeck has done" (San Francisco Chronicle), with "subtleties of feeling that are the stock in trade of writers like Chekhov, D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield… The best thing in the book is the three-part story The Red Pony… a masterpiece" (New Yorker).