STEINBECK JOHN: (1902-1968) American author, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1962. Book signed, being a hardback edition of Cannery Row, published by The Sun Dial Press, Garden City, New York, 1946 (reprint edition by special arrangement with The Viking Press). Signed by Steinbeck in fountain pen ink with his name alone to the title page. Bound in the publisher's original dark red cloth and accompanied by the dust jacket. Some tears, age wear and small areas of paper loss to the dust jacket, otherwise about VG