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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Steinbeck, John) |
| Author: |
Sophocles |
| Title: |
The Tragedies of Sophocles |
| Place: |
Cambridge |
| Publisher: |
University Press |
| Date: |
1917 |
| Item # : |
206025 |
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| Sale Number |
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472 |
| Lot Number |
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178 |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts (Monday after S.F. Book Fair) |
| Sale Date |
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02/06/2012 |
| Price realized |
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$ 4800 |
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| Description: |
| Red cloth. |
| Steinbeck's personal copy from his school days, with his signature in pencil ("J.E. Steinbeck, Jr.") to front pastedown, 10-line inscription to his wife by Steinbeck on front free endpaper in light pencil: "Dear Carol, Here is my old school copy of Sophocles. I want you to read the Trilogy of Oedipus particularly. I like this translation, it has more *** than most of the pretentious (?) translations in ***. I hope you will enjoy these plays. They are timeless, *** things, John." Most importantly, Steinbeck has written notes (from school-day era, likely written during class and passed to a friend sitting next to him.) in upper margins of a few pages having to do with his life, for instance on page 15: "Sewerd invited me to go down to Carmel last week-end. I was too broke to go." A cryptic note on p.1, likely to a girl, reads, "Busy to-night? May come til 10. Mother's tears are more anatomical." Another reads, "Ray! I have to play Polo on the 31st - my 1st public appearance. I'm skeered. Run the boat?" Yet another says, "Who in hell's Montaigne. He ain't s'much. Trilogy & 2 Electras." A couple of other notes from Steinbeck also present. |
| Condition: |
| Dampstaining to spine and joint areas, affecting internal portions as well, thus good, but with great personal content from a young and older Steinbeck. |
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