Sunday, 11 October 2015

The Red Pony (Heinemann New Windmills, 1990)

Clearly a modern edition, aimed at students. Illustrations (and cover) by Robert Hodgson. I wouldn't buy this edition nowadays, but when I started collecting I bought any book by Steinbeck I could find...

The Red Pony (Bantam Books, 1955)

Obviously red would be a logical colour for this book. The designer remains unknown. This book is larger than the previous edition, and also features the story Junius Maltby from The Pastures of Heaven.

The Red Pony (Bantam Books, 1948)

A very nice looking edition with a movie tie-in (starring Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum). This time The Grapes of Wrath is named as a selling point.

Het beloofde land (The Pastures of Heaven, Salamander, 1966)

Dutch edition of The Pastures of Heaven, with a cover drawn by H. Berserik.

The Pastures of Heaven (Bantam Books, 1956)

Small alterations to the cover of the 1952 edition make this one different. East of Eden isn't mentioned any more. Instead it says on the cover that nearly eight million of Steinbeck's books have been sold in  Bantam editions.

The Pastures of Heaven (Bantam Books, 1952)

A nice anonymous picture on the cover of this Bantam edition.

The Pastures of Heaven (World Publishing Company, 1947)

No dustjacket, so a rather dull cover for this 1947 edition of The Pastures of Heaven (1932).