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New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing, first issue. 269 pp. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with titles stamped in black, blue topstain. Near Fine with light fading to spine, modest soiling to cloth and minor wear at extremities. Moderating foxing to all edges with slight offsetting at endsheets. Minor toning and light foxing to contents. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with fading to spine, short split at foot of front spine joint with light associated creasing to the bottom of the front panel. Foxing to verso. Steinbeck's scarce first novel of 17th-century historical fiction. Uncommon in the original dust jacket. Goldstone A1.

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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