8vo. Half-title. Original green gilt-lettered cloth, top edge stained black (some minor fading to spine ends, very slightly leaned); in unrestored unclipped silver dust jacket lettered in blue with gold stars (some minor chipping or rubbing to extremities).
 
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET.  Of the 2,500 copies printed, only 1,650 were bound, and of those, only 650 sold.  Ballou later bought the remaining copies.  The Pastures of Heaven has become the most popular of Steinbeck's three earliest novels. Steinbeck's second novel, it includes twelve interconnected stories about the Corral de Tierra valley in Monterey, California. Goldstone & Payne A2a.