Agata Popęda here, thinking about The Western Flyer—the fishing boat that took John Steinbeck, Ed Ricketts and other crew members on their journey to Baja—which is now officially on its
A lot estimated at $700,000 worth of unique and very personal items will be sold at a live Bonhams auction in New York. The collection of over 100 items were passed down from Steinbeck's sister Mary to her daughter and son-in-law.
The tiny piece of paper features writing from the famous 1937 novel s first chapter, where Steinbeck was introducing his central characters, George Milton and Lennie Small.
John Steinbeck’s pet ‘made confetti’ of the manuscript in 1936, but a surviving piece will go on sale alongside personal journals, first editions and a wrought-iron sword owned by the author