Steinbeck based this novella on his own experiences working alongside migrant farm workers as a teenager. The title is taken from Robert Burns’ poem “To a Mouse”, which reads … “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley“…. or “The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry.”

Description: True First Edition. Hard bound in dust jacket. First edition / First state. A Covici Friede “sample copy” with the publisher’s stamp to front free end page. Meets points of issue for the true first edition ( Bullet between 8s on page 88) and ( “pendula” on line 21 of page 9 ) $2.00 price to jacket flap. Previous owners name to front free end page. Some wear to edges and corners of boards. Minor age toning throughout. Wear to jacket that shows some minor chipping to corners and one large chip to upper spine edge, otherwise good. Interior clean, binding sound. RARE!

Bookseller Inventory # 60153

Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John

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