Books

Robert M. McBride, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1929, 1929. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1929, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, first issue with top edge stained and with the final black leaf present, with the rare colorful pirate dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine, unrestored, one of only 1,537 copies, published when Steinbeck was 27 years old and just two weeks before the 1929 stock market crash, a historical novel about the pirate Henry Morgan rendered in a purple prose manner quite unlike his realistic descriptive storytelling that followed, Goldstone & Payne A1a, Morrow 1. Very good book in a jacket with the usual spine color fade with chipping to top and bottom of spine, unrestored jacket with internal tape reinforcement that could probably be safely removed by an expert. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.

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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