Cup of Gold: A Life of Henry Morgan, Buccaneer
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1929.
First edition, first printing, first issue. Association copy signed by John Steinbeck on the front free endpaper. From the collection of the author's sister Olive Esther (Steinbeck) Rodgers, with Steinbeck Family bookplate to front pastedown. [vi], 269 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth lettered in black, blue topstain. Near Fine with slight lean to spine and light edgewear, light toning to contents. Offsetting to front free endpaper from contemporary newspaper clipping advertising novel laid in. Additional gift inscription and owner bookplate to front endpapers. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with with light edgewear and rubbing, fading to spine panel, and several surface scratches to rear panel. An association copy of Steinbeck's scarce first novel. The book was published in a print run of just 2,476 copies, of which 939 were remaindered and reissued in 1936; this copy came from the collection of Steinbeck's older sister. Goldstone-Payne A1.a.
Price: $38,000