Sweet Thursday Steinbeck 1954 First Printing Viking Press HC DJ VG Price Clipped
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Sweet Thursday Steinbeck 1954 First Printing Viking Press HC DJ VG Price Clipped. John Steinbeck. Doc is back from the war, sitting in his lab on the Row, staring at a half-written paper on the philosophy of the octopus that he cannot bring himself to finish. The Palace Flophouse has new inhabitants. Sweet Thursday — John Steinbeck — 1954 First Edition — JT Enterportals JT Enterportals · American Literature · First Edition ★ First Edition · First Printing · 1954 The Viking Press · New York DJ Present · Price Clipped John Steinbeck Sweet Thursday The Viking Press · New York · June 1954 · Jacket Design by Paul Galdone · First Printing 📚 First Edition · First Printing The Viking Press, New York — June 1954 Copyright page: "First published by The Viking Press in June 1954" · No subsequent printing stated · Original DJ (price clipped) About This Book It is the day after Lousy Wednesday. Doc is back from the war, sitting in his lab on the Row, staring at a half-written paper on the philosophy of the octopus that he cannot bring himself to finish. The Palace Flophouse has new inhabitants. Fauna has taken over the Bear Flag from Dora. And Cannery Row — Steinbeck's Cannery Row, the Row of vagrant philosophers and warm-hearted prostitutes and marine biologists and bums of transcendent dignity — is quietly plotting to get Doc fixed up. Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row, published nine years after that beloved novella, and it is — as the New York Herald Tribune put it — "John Steinbeck's funniest and happiest book." Where Cannery Row was elegiac, Sweet Thursday is exuberant. It is Steinbeck in a generous mood, poking gentle fun at his own characters and himself, writing about love and community and the strange democracy of the dispossessed with the ease of a man who has found his people and returned to visit them one more time. This is a first edition, first printing — published by The Viking Press in June 1954, the year Steinbeck was at the height of his fame following East of Eden (1952). The dust jacket, designed by Paul Galdone, is the original Viking Press jacket with the iconic coastal illustration of Cannery Row. The price has been clipped from the front flap — a common practice among gift-givers of the era — but the jacket is otherwise present and intact. Steinbeck would win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. First editions of his novels from this period are collected worldwide. ✦ Contemporary Reviews — From the Dust Jacket "John Steinbeck's funniest and happiest book." Lewis Gannett · New York Herald Tribune "Here we're not East of Eden, but right smack dab in the unholy middle of it." L.D. O'Neill · Louisville Courier-Journal "Steinbeck at his best... magnificently entertaining." Charles Poore · New York Times "It is simply great." Clark Kinnaird · King Features Syndicate ✦ Did You Know? Sweet Thursday was adapted for the Broadway stage in 1955 as Pipe Dream — a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. It was one of the few Rodgers and Hammerstein productions considered a disappointment, running only 246 performances. Steinbeck himself was reportedly unhappy with the adaptation. The novel, however, has outlasted the musical by decades and is now firmly part of the Steinbeck canon — particularly beloved by readers who encountered Cannery Row first and wanted to return to Doc, Mack, and the boys of the Palace Flophouse one more time. About the Author John Steinbeck (1902–1968) was born in Salinas, California, and spent much of his early life in the Monterey Bay region that would become the setting for some of his most beloved work — Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men, and Sweet Thursday. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. By 1954, when Sweet Thursday was published, Steinbeck was one of the most famous writers in the world — the author of East of Eden (1952), which had been a massive bestseller, and of the canonical works of American social realism. Sweet Thursday represented a deliberate turn toward lightness and comedy — a warm, generous book from a writer who had earned the right to be happy on the page. Title Sweet Thursday Author John Steinbeck Publisher The Viking Press · New York Year June 1954 · First Edition · First Printing Format Hardcover with Dust Jacket Jacket Design Paul Galdone Dust Jacket Present · Price Clipped · Tears Condition Good · See Condition Notes ⚠ Condition — Good / DJ Present with Tears & Price Clip Dust jacket present but has tears — please see photos for extent and location Dust jacket price clipped from front flap Dust jacket shows shelf wear Book boards in good condition Binding tight — no cracking, loosening, or stress Pages clean and crisp throughout No writing, underlining, or highlighting anywhere Sold as-is; all flaws fully disclosed — please see photos Ideal For Steinbeck First Edition Collectors American Literature Collections Nobel Prize Winners — First Editions Cannery Row Series Collectors Viking Press 1950s First Editions California Literature Enthusiasts University Special Collections Serious Literary Collectors JT ENTERPORTALS · SAME OR NEXT BUSINESS DAY SHIPPING · ALL FLAWS DISCLOSED · QUESTIONS WELCOME >>Powered by WonderLister App
