John STEINBECK

Original silver print portrait of the American writer John Steinbeck in front of a library.
This beautiful photograph was taken on the set of O. Henry's Full House in 1952, an anthology film narrated by Steinbeck, who introduces a quintet of five of O. Henry's most celebrated stories.
The author of The Grapes of Wrath made his only on-camera appearance in this role of narrator.
Some very slight marginal traces of folding. Handwritten annotations in pencil on the back.
Rare.

Second edition of this special issue devoted to American writers and poets.
Handsome copy.
Contributions by Thomas Stearns Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, William Saroyan, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate, E.E. Cummings, Erskine Caldwell, André Gide, Julien Green...

First edition in French, one of 110 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the tirage de tête.
A good copy.

First edition in French, one of 105 numbered copies on pur fil Lafuma, the tirage de tête.
Covers and spine slightly sunned at edges as usual, trace of a fold to edge of lower cover.
A good copy.

First edition in French by Louis Guilloux, one of 210 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the tirage de tête.
A good copy.

STEINBECK John. La Flamme [Burning Bright]
Del Duca, Paris 1951, 13,5 x 21 cm, publisher's binding
First edition in French of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Publisher's cream-colored paper boards, retaining its illustrated dust jacket (small tears and insignificant lacks to edges).
Rare autograph inscription signed by John Steinbeck to Mademoiselle de La Fouchardière.

First edition in French, one of 110 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the tirage de tête.
Spine slightly faded (with small tears, glued down, to foot and head).