8vo. Original yellow cloth lettered in black, top edge stained blue (some minor soiling); in dust jacket with corners clipped as issued and "$2.50" price present (chipping with losses, fading and spotting, a few old tape repairs on verso); slipcase.  Provenance: Arthur Wilmer Lissauer (morocco booklabel); George Cosmatos (sold, his sale, Sotheby's, 2005, lot 295). 
 
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF STEINBECK'S FIRST BOOK, with the McBride imprint and "First Published, August 1929" on copyright page. One of only approximately 2,500 copies of Steinbeck's scarce first novel, published right before the stock market crash, which tells the story of the life of pirate Henry Morgan. Goldstone & Payne A1a. THE COSMATOS COPY.