Signed book: The Long Valley. Sixth printing. NY: Viking Press, 1964. Softcover, 5 x 7.75, 303 pages. Boldly signed and inscribed on the half-title page in fountain pen, "For Chuck Rumer, inscribed under ridiculous conditions in Saigon at the jolly yule-tide and how can one get sillier than that. John Steinbeck, Saigon 1966." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/None, with some scuffing and bumps to spine and covers. Accompanied by a custom-made clamshell case. In 1966, at the urging of President Lyndon B. Johnson and the suggestion of Long Island's Newsday paper, Steinbeck accepted an assignment as a roving reporter in Southeast Asia. Between December 1966 and May 1967, he wrote 86 stories for the newspaper. These dispatches would be the last work published during his lifetime. Inscribed at Christmastime just after his arrival in the war-torn nation, this is an especially significant signed Steinbeck book. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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