8vo. Half-title; title printed in brown and black. Original beige cloth, stamped in brown and black (a touch of darkening to spine); unrestored publisher's dust jacket (light toning to spine and edges, slight soiling and scuffing, a few short tears along panel folds).

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, IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with $2.00 price. 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.