8vo. Half-title; title printed in brown and black.  Original beige cloth (some darkening to edges and spine); in unrestored dust jacket (overall browning, a few tears and rubbing). 

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, including the line "...and only moved because the heavy hands were pendula." on page 9, as well as the bullet between the 8s on page 88, top edge stained blue. Steinbeck's novella portraying the lives of George Milton and Lennie Small, migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression, was based on his own experiences working alongside migrant farm workers in the 1910s. Goldstone & Payne A7a.