The Red Pony.
First Illustrated Edition of The Red Pony; Inscribed by John Steinbeck
The Red Pony.
STEINBECK, John.
Item Number: 144291
New York: The Viking Press, 1945.
First illustrated edition of Steinbeck’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, with illustrations by Wesley Dennis. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For J.C. Shakel with regards John Steinbeck.” Fine in the original slipcase.
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).
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