Rare, 1947, John Steinbeck, K. Politis (Trl.), Of Mice and Men, First Greek Edition, Limited

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

Translated by Kosmas Politis

Published by I Phili tou Vivliou in Athens in 1947

First Greek, limited and numbered Edition, 1/1000 here Nr. 256 

Frontispiece original Woodcut by Kostas Grammatopoulos

Original Soft Binding

178 Pages 

20.5 cm x 15 cm

John Ernst Steinbeck (1902 – 1968) was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception”. He has been called “a giant of American letters.” 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 multigenerational 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. By the 75th anniversary of its publishing date, it had sold 14 million copies.

Kosmas Politis (real name: Paraskevas Taveloudis, 1888 – 1974) was a Greek writer, one of the most important prose writers of the generation of the ’30s. His most characteristic works are the novels Eroïca (1938) and At Hadjifragkou (1962). Politis was also an important translator, as he rendered into Greek the works of William Shakespeare, Henry Miller, Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Pearl Buck and others.

Kostas Grammatopoulos (1916 – 2003) was a Greek painter and engraver, who became well known for the posters he created during the Greco-Italian War (1940–1941), as well as for the illustrations of Greek magazines and books.