Steinbeck, John

And it is wonderful that even Today... [Book Mark: Books Make the Perfect Gift Visit Your Local Bookseller]

[Viking?], 1952. First Edition. Unknown. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very Good. Item #00514046

Unrecorded and presumably rare piece of Steinback ephemera (which we date to 1951/1952), located in a first edition of 'East of Eden', 1952, and printing a Steinbeck text excerpted from his 'Some Random and Randy Thoughts on Books' which appeared the prior year in 'The Author Looks at Format' (American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1951). The first side reads: 'And it is wonderful that even today with all competition of records, of radio of television, of motion pictures, the book has kept its precious character. A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned, the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive... People... automatically believe in books, This is strange but it is so. Messages come from behind the controlled and censored areas of the world and they do not ask for radios, for papers and pamphlets. They invariably ask for books. They believe books when they believe nothing else. - John Steinbeck' The second reads: 'Book Mark [decorative rule] Books Make the Perfect Gift Visit Your Local Bookseller' [decorative rule].

Price: $100.00