Title: Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research Author: Steinbeck, John & Edward F. Ricketts Place: New York Publisher: Viking Press Date: 1941 Description: Illustrations from color and black and white photographs, drawings and charts; map endpapers. (8vo), green cloth lettered in silver on front cover and spine, top edge orange, dust jacket. First Edition, cloth issue. First published edition, being the first to print the text in its entirety (the first edition in wrappers which preceded this only printed half of the text and actually constituted an advance copy, according to Bradford Morrow). The book is a description of the visit Steinbeck and Ricketts made to the Gulf of California on the "Western Flyer," a 76-foot purser seiner, to collect marine invertebrates in March and April of 1940. Goldstone & Payne A15.b. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket lightly edge worn, old tape reinforcements on the reverse; volume fine. Item number: 288386
Title: Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research Author: Steinbeck, John & Edward F. Ricketts Place: New York Publisher: Viking Press Date: 1941 Description: Illustrations from color and black and white photographs, drawings and charts; map endpapers. (8vo), green cloth lettered in silver on front cover and spine, top edge orange, dust jacket. First Edition, cloth issue. First published edition, being the first to print the text in its entirety (the first edition in wrappers which preceded this only printed half of the text and actually constituted an advance copy, according to Bradford Morrow). The book is a description of the visit Steinbeck and Ricketts made to the Gulf of California on the "Western Flyer," a 76-foot purser seiner, to collect marine invertebrates in March and April of 1940. Goldstone & Payne A15.b. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket lightly edge worn, old tape reinforcements on the reverse; volume fine. Item number: 288386
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