8vo. Original yellow cloth printed in blue, top edge stained blue; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (light toning, small loss to top of front flap, light chipping to spine ends). 

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY STEINBECK: "For Alan Green, with many thanks." In the second issue binding. Cannery Row was printed in conformity with wartime conservation measures, with the first state binding issued in a light buff cloth. When supplies ran out, the rest of the first edition copies (including the present copy) were printed in light yellow cloth. Goldstone & Payne A22b; Valentine 174; Bruccoli & Clark I, 355; Salinas 35.