John Steinbeck

A first printing copy of Steinbeck's experimental work Burning Bright.

• John Steinbeck (American).
• New York: Viking Press, 1950.
• 159 pages.
• Bound in original full tan cloth, front board and spine lettered in red, in original unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket in yellow, grey and orange, orange topstain. 

Expanding on the idea first developed in Of Mice and Men—adapting aspects of the theater into the structure of a novel—Steinbeck wrote this "play in story form" about the birth of a long-awaited child. The book was staged the same year with Rodgers and Hammerstein as producers.