[Rarebooks] FS: John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat INSCRIBED to Burgess Meredith

[Charles Agvent]

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  STEINBECK,  John.  TORTILLA  FLAT. New  York:  Grosset  &  Dunlap
Publishers  (1935).  Reprint.  Illustrated   by  Ruth  Gannett.  Early
reprint  with "100100" on the front inside dustwrapper flap and a list
of  Pulitzer Prize novels on the rear flap. A superb Presentation Copy
spicily  INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper with
a   drawing  of  a  duck  to   actor  Burgess  Meredith:  "A   Burgess
Beredith/paisano,   amigo,  cabron!/Su   seguro  servidor/John   (duck
draftsman)/Steinbeck/Este   pato/es  un  pato   [?]/que  pato  lindo."
Meredith,  of  course, starred as George, opposite Lon  Chaney,  Jr.'s
Lenny,  in  the 1939 film OF MICE AND MEN. The film was nominated  for
Best  Film  of the year, but 1939 was probably the strongest  year  in
American  film  history with other competitors  including  STAGECOACH;
GOODBYE,  MR.  CHIPS; THE WIZARD OF OZ; MR. SMITH GOES TO  WASHINGTON;
DARK  VICTORY;  and the Academy Award winner GONE WITH THE WIND.  Near
Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper.                              $6500.00

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