STEINBECK, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. London: Heinemann. 1961. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Publisher’s burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Lacey Everett. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and perhaps just a trifle rolled. The top edge slightly dust-marked. The contents clean and fine throughout without stamps, inscriptions, or foxing. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net) and complete, very slightly bumped along some edges and joints, but a pleasing copy.
Why shouldn’t the mouse sharpen his teeth and join the rat-race? So begins Steinbeck’s tragicomic tale of a hard-working and honest grocery clerk turned immoral, seemingly by coincidence but perhaps by circumstance, perhaps by something else. It was Steinbeck’s final novel and the final push for his winning the Nobel Prize in 1962.
STEINBECK, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. London: Heinemann. 1961. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Publisher’s burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Lacey Everett. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and perhaps just a trifle rolled. The top edge slightly dust-marked. The contents clean and fine throughout without stamps, inscriptions, or foxing. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net) and complete, very slightly bumped along some edges and joints, but a pleasing copy.
Why shouldn’t the mouse sharpen his teeth and join the rat-race? So begins Steinbeck’s tragicomic tale of a hard-working and honest grocery clerk turned immoral, seemingly by coincidence but perhaps by circumstance, perhaps by something else. It was Steinbeck’s final novel and the final push for his winning the Nobel Prize in 1962.
