Breakfast by John Steinbeck
copyright 1990, Anchor & Acorn Press
edition of 100
8½ x 7 inches, 22 pages
handset in 14 and 12 point ATF and Monotype Goudy Old Style
illustrated with nine wood engravings on endgrain maple
Mohawk Letterpress Text paper, Canson MiTientes cover
printed on a Vandercook Universal I proof press
"Breakfast" is a story in The Long Valley (© 1938, Viking Penguin).
It also appears slightly changed as chapter 22 in The Grapes of Wrath.
Its length was ideal for this project which was a culmination of a two-year internship at Anchor & Acorn Press with Bruce Washbish, a letterpress printer and designer. The story is simple, yet it expresses one of Steinbeck's persistent themes, "the superiority of simple human virtues and pleasures to the accumulation of riches and property, of kindness and justice to meanness and greed"
(John Fontenrose, Contemporary Authors, 1967).
A copy of this book is at the Steinbeck Research Center, San Jose State University, San Jose, California. Below are sample pages.
copyright 1990, Anchor & Acorn Press
edition of 100
8½ x 7 inches, 22 pages
handset in 14 and 12 point ATF and Monotype Goudy Old Style
illustrated with nine wood engravings on endgrain maple
Mohawk Letterpress Text paper, Canson MiTientes cover
printed on a Vandercook Universal I proof press
"Breakfast" is a story in The Long Valley (© 1938, Viking Penguin).
It also appears slightly changed as chapter 22 in The Grapes of Wrath.
Its length was ideal for this project which was a culmination of a two-year internship at Anchor & Acorn Press with Bruce Washbish, a letterpress printer and designer. The story is simple, yet it expresses one of Steinbeck's persistent themes, "the superiority of simple human virtues and pleasures to the accumulation of riches and property, of kindness and justice to meanness and greed"
(John Fontenrose, Contemporary Authors, 1967).
A copy of this book is at the Steinbeck Research Center, San Jose State University, San Jose, California. Below are sample pages.
I had the great pleasure of meeting Thomas Steinbeck, John Steinbeck's (1902-1968) eldest son, when he was on a book tour for his collection of short stories, Down to a Soundless Sea.
12 December 2002, Copperfield's Books, Petaluma, California
Thomas Steinbeck book signing promoting Down to a Soundless Sea ©2002 Ballantine Books
12 December 2002, Copperfield's Books, Petaluma, California
Thomas Steinbeck book signing promoting Down to a Soundless Sea ©2002 Ballantine Books
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Thomas Steinbeck receiving a copy of Breakfast from left to right: Gayle Steinbeck (wife of Thomas Steinbeck),
Thomas Steinbeck (son of novelist John Steinbeck), Colleen Dwire
photos by Jeffrey Miller
Thomas Steinbeck (son of novelist John Steinbeck), Colleen Dwire
photos by Jeffrey Miller