1932 The Pastures of Heaven

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Brewer, Warren & Putnam printed 2,500 sets of sheets, of which 1,650 copies were bound and about 650 copies sold. The remainder were sold to Robert O. Ballou in 1932. The author's second published work. An episodic short story cycle composed of ten self-contained but related stories set in the Corral de Tierra of the Salinas Valley of California. It is said to "rival The Long Valley (1938) as Steinbeck's major achievement in short fiction". Written by John Ernst Steinbeck, an American writer who was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature.