STEINBECK, John.
The Moon Is Down.
“I'm tired of people who have not been at war who know all about it": First Edition of John Steinbeck's The Moon Is Down
New York: The Viking Press, 1942.
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First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original blue cloth. The first edition has a large period between "talk" and "this" on page 112, line 11. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Ownership plate to the front free endpaper.
In 1941 Steinbeck met “with officials of the Foreign Information Service, a newly formed unit of what would soon become the Office of Strategic Services, to discuss the future of American counterpropaganda efforts. The Moon Is Down, begun later the same month, had its origins in Steinbeck’s long-standing desire to contribute to these efforts… Steinbeck submitted a first finished draft of The Moon Is Down, originally written as a play (called ‘The New Order’) and set in a mid-sized town in the United States, to agency officials; they turned it down, concerned that the prospect of an occupied America might lower morale. Early in December Steinbeck began revising the work, shifting the setting to a generic northern Europe and recasting the play as a novel; he sent his revised draft to Pascal Covici, his editor at Viking, later in December. The Moon Is Down [as a novel] appeared in book form in March 1942. A stage version opened on Broadway on April 9, 1942, and was published by Dramatists Play Service in New York later in the same year” (Library of America). Second issue with the Haddon Craftsmen name on the copyright page and no period between "talk" and "this" on p. 112, line 11
The Moon Is Down.
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