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NY: Covici Friede Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth titled in gilt. First Covici Friede edition. Trace of tarnish to gilt title, blue topstain is uniform with only a slight fade. There is pink to top of front and rear pastedown from some damp, and a bit of darkening to endpages, and a tiny bump to bottom board edge, else tight, square and unmarked. The DJ in mylar is price clipped with top edge dampstains to rear panel and spine and a hint of darkening to spine. Covici Friede printed above black out on spine. Steinbeck titles and $2.50 price on back of jacket. McBride colophon to last page of text. NO mention of Steinbeck as author of "Of Mice and Men" to front jacket panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Cup of Gold is John Steinbeck's first novel, a work of historical fiction based on the life of the infamous pirate Henry Morgan and his quest for the fabled treasures of Panama.

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