OF MICE AND MEN; [first issue in supplied, presumed book club dust jacket].
New York: Covici Friede, 1937. First edition. First issue with "pendula" p. 9, dot between 8's p. 88, and printer J. J. Little and Ives. In unpriced dust jacket with all four corners evenly clipped and "it" for "is" in last line of second to last paragraph on back flap (later printing dust jackets versus presumed book club ones state as such at bottom of front flap). 12mo (or small 8vo) beige cloth stamped in orange and black on front and spine; top edge blue; 186 pages. Good at best with spine considerably darkened, blue top-edge stain just about faded away, staining to covers, and boards visible at tips; in equally good at best dust jacket with spine fading but quite readable, rubbed creasing, few scratches on spine, small chips and tears, old internal tape repairs, and new internal archival tape repairs. Still, a relatively presentable copy of the increasingly scarce first issue of which there were only 2500 copies printed.
Item #72731
Price: $750.00