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n.p., John Steinbeck, n.d. (1933), first edition.. This is a carbon copy of the typescript for Steinbeck's breakthrough book, specially bound by Steinbeck himself for presentation to a close friend, Alice Cohee, in what is now a fairly crummy leather binding, this is No. 2 of only two copies (unknown by me as to whom has No. 1--Carol?) according to a label affixed to the inside front cover "This is one of a first edition of/two copies of which this is #2," the leather binding is labeled Tortilla Flat at the top of the front cover, the middle of the front cover has a leather boxed area that reads "For/John/& Alice/Cohee," the bottom of the front cover reads "John Steinbeck" in what is undoubtedly his hand, top of the rear cover reads "Phalanx," Tortilla Flat is one of several of his books utilizing Steinbeck's "Phalanx Theory" in which group man operates far differently than individual man, there is another spot on the rear cover that appears to read "The old colection…

Tortilla Flat is an early John Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California. The novel was the first of Steinbeck's 'California novels.' Tortilla Flat was made into a film in 1942.