First edition of this collaborative travelogue about an expedition along the Gulf of California, a lyrical ode to marine biology.
Very good plus in very good minus jacket.
Price: $850.00
"It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be missed without being gone; to be loved without satiety. How beautiful one is and how desirable; for in a few moments one will have ceased to exist."
Read more: Holmes, John Steinbeck: A Descriptive Bibliographic Catalogue, A16b; Goldstone and Payne, John Steinbeck: A Bibliographic Catalogue, A15b.
First printing. New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Full title: Sea of Cortez, A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research. 9.25'' x 6''. Original teal cloth, silver-lettered spine and front board. In original unclipped ($5.00) blue and orange dust jacket designed by W.V. Eckhardt. Cartographic endpapers. 8 pages of color photographic illustrations of collected marine life and 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations of marine life after drawings and photographs. x, 598 pages. Jacket a bit edgeworm with a few closed tears at folds. Book has minor shelfwear and a touch of two of soil. Overall, sound.
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