Robert Capa, John Steinbeck - A Russian Journal - 1948

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SCARCE FOURTH BOOK by Robert Capa - with his photos from Russia -
text by famous american author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, called "a giant of American letters."

FANTASTIC, WIDELY UNKNOWN AND UNDERRATED publication with photographs by Robert Capa,
who became later the most famous war photographer ever.

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The Viking Press, New York. 1948. First edition, first printing.

Illustrated hardcover. 172 x 248 mm. 220 pages. Black and white photos. Photos: Robert Capa. Text: John Steinbeck. Language: English.

Condition:
Book inside very fresh and flawless and much better than usual; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside quite fresh, but with trace of use; bumped at the bottom right corner of the front and at the bottom left corner of the rear side (both with no consequence for inside). Lacks the jacket. Overall fine condition.

Highly impressive publication with Robert Capa photos - hard to find in any condition.

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"The authorJohn Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968) was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception."
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952) and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14 million copies.
Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists."
(Wikipedia)