The Sea of Cortez.
New York: Viking Press, 1941.
8vo, 598 pp. Illustrated. Original green cloth lettered in silver, map endpapers, unclipped dustjacket (priced $5.00). Boards marked and scuffed, dust jacket worn and a little faded with moderate edgewear but no major chips, endpapers toned, scattered foxing. Custom cloth slipcase, somewhat spotted. A good plus copy with bookplate inscribed by Ed Ricketts on front pastedown. Bookplate lightly abraided but legible.
§ First edition with the book plate of Jewel and Patricia Stevens which has been inscribed by Ed Ricketts: "For the Stevens, May 1 - 1945. I am delighted to sign this over to you, good friends I have known perhaps longer than anyone except John. I think Sea of Cortez is a good book and I am glad you like it. Ed Ricketts".
According to Katherine Rodger, who edited the letters of Ricketts, Jewel and Pat Stevens were friends of Ricketts's sister and lived near Chicago. Item #126465
Price: $4,250.00