Nothing So Monstrous (Special Edition presented to Arthur Hays Sulzberger) John Steinbeck Crème de la crème,Limited Editions,Literature

The first separate publication of Nothing So Monstrous, which originally formed one of the episodes in Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven, published in 1932. With a short 'epilogue written specially for this book.' 'With pen and ink drawings by Donald McKay.' One of only 370 copies for presentation by five different subscribers as Christmas gifts: 50 copies for Elmer Adler, 100 for Frederick B. Adams, Jr., 150 for Ben Abramson, 50 for Edwin J. Beinecke, and 20 for Howard Mott. This one was presented by Elmer Adler to his boss, the publisher (1935-1961) of the New York Times, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. I bought this book from the home of his niece Ann Sulzberger and her husband Judge Leonard Sand. We lived in the same town. Leonard B. Sand was the federal judge in New York who presided over a 27-year landmark case in which he found that city officials in Yonkers had intentionally segregated public housing and schools along racial lines. The case was dramatized in the HBO mini-series 'Show Me a Hero,' based on the book of the same title by Lisa Belkin, a former reporter for The New York Times. Elmer Adler was a book designer, collector, and graphic design educator. He was also the founder (1922) of the The Pynson Printers which published this book. He worked on various publications including the New York Times and the American Mercury, and produced limited edition books for publishers including Alfred A. Knopf and Random House. He was director of the New York Times History of the Recorded Word Exhibition. This book is in very nice condition. You can see the marbled covers in the photos. They are exceptionally clean. The black lettering on the orange spine is quite bright. There is a little bit of wear at the spine ends, two very tiny spots of rub-through on each. The cover edges look very good. The cover corners each have a tiny spot of rubbing. The page edges are very clean. The middle and bottom ones are deckled or rough-cut. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The pages are exceptionally clean. I didn't see any conspicuous soiling. I didn't see any conspicuous creasing, no turned-down corners or placeholder creases. There are no markings. No attachments of any kind. And the neatly penned name, by Elmer Adler, of Arthur Hays Sulzberger is the only writing to be found anywhere in the book.