John Steinbeck: The Collection of  Preston Beyer: Donated to the Princeton University Library   
 By His Daughters:  Barbara A. Rice,  Marilyn S. Shuffler,  Lynne B. Sagalyn.
 Annotated Catalogue of the Collection
 
LITERARY CRITICISM:  OF JS AND OTHERS, WRITTEN BEFORE HIS DEATH
BOYNTON, Percy Holmes. America in Contemporary Fiction. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1940. JS pp. 215-216, 241-257. [Beyer - ABOUT - 249]
MILLETT, Fred B. Contemporary American Authors: A Critical Survey and 219 Bio-Bibliographies. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1940. JS p. 50, 596-597. [Beyer - ABOUT - 250]
BEACH, J. W. American Fiction: 1920-1940. New York: Macmillan, 1941. See index for JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 252]
WILSON, Edmund. The Boys in the Back Room. San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941. Limited 1500 copies. JS pp. 41-53. [Beyer - ABOUT - 253]
GEISMAR, Maxwell. Writers in Crisis: The American Novel 1925-1940. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. See index for JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 254]
KAZIN, Alfred. On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, (cl942). JS pp. 32, 100, 368, 392, 393-399, 448. [Beyer - ABOUT - 255]
WHIPPLE, T. K. Study Out the Land. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1943. Contains "Steinbeck: Through a Glass Though Brightly," pp. 105-111. [Beyer - ABOUT - 256]
ADAMS, J. Donald. The Shape of Books to Come. New York: Viking Press, 1944. JS pp. 131, 132, 136-140, 173, 185. [Beyer - ABOUT - 257]
PEYRE, Henri. Writers and their Critics: A Study of Misunderstanding. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1944. JS pp. 72, 73, 74, 168. [Beyer - ABOUT - 258]
GRAY, James. On Second Thought. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1946. JS pp. 133-140. [Beyer - ABOUT - 259]
FINKELSTEIN, Sidney. Art and Society. New York: International Publishers, 1947. JS pp. 25, 99, 100, 125. [Beyer - ABOUT - 260]
MOTT, Frank Luther. Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1947. JS pp. 259, 279, 314, 328, 330. [Beyer - ABOUT - 261]
SNELL, George. The Shapers of American Fiction: 1798-1947. New York: E.ÊP. Dutton, 1947. Review slip laid in. JS pp. 89, 102, 187-197, 201, 300. [Beyer - ABOUT - 262]
DAICHES, David. A Study of Literature for Readers and Critics. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1948. JS pp. 62-64, 95, 132. [Beyer - ABOUT - 263]
HYMAN, Stanley Edgar. The Armed Vision: A Study in the Methods of Modern Literary Criticism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. JS pp. 22, 97, 156, 353. [Beyer - ABOUT - 264]
DENNY, Margaret and William H. Gilman (editors). The American Writer and the European Tradition. Minneapolis: Published for the University of Rochester by the University of Minnesota Press, l950. JS pp. 27, 170, 175-176. [Beyer - ABOUT - 265]
FAST, Howard. Literature and Reality. New York: International Publishers, (cl950). JS pp. 40-41, 73, 87-91. [Beyer - ABOUT - 266]
GARDINER, S. J., Harold C. (editor). Fifty Years of the American Novel: A Christian Appraisal. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. JS pp. 217-236, 304. Two copies. [Beyer - ABOUT - 267-268]
HOFFMAN, Frederick J. The Modern Novel in America: 1900-1950. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1951. JS pp. 137, 146-153, 185. [Beyer - ABOUT - 269]
PRESCOTT, Orville. In My Opinion: An Inquiry Into the Contemporary Novel. Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 11952. Chapter 4, contains "Squandered Talents:..., Lewis, Steinbeck, Hemingway, O'Hara." on pp. 50-74. [Beyer - ABOUT - 270]"
COWLEY, Malcolm. The Literary Situation. New York: Viking Press, March 1955. JS pp. 41, 112, 191. [Beyer - ABOUT - 271]
STARRETT, Vincent. Best Loved Books of the Twentieth Century. New York: Bantam Books, December 1955. JS pp. 102-104. [Beyer - ABOUT - 272]
BLOTNER, Joseph L. The Political Novel. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1955. JS pp. 2, 14, 39, 67, 68, 78, 98. [Beyer - ABOUT - 273]
SMITH, Thelma M. and Ward L. Miner. Transatlantic Migration: The Contemporary American Novel in France. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1955. See index JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 274]
KAZIN, Alfred. On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1956. JS pp. 22, 77, 288, 304-310, 346, 407. #A69. [Beyer - ABOUT - 275]
BURKE, Kenneth. The Philosophy of Literary Form. New York: Vintage Books, (cl957). JS pp. 32, 68-69, 73n, 76-77, 108. [Beyer - ABOUT - 276]
FRYE, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1957. JS pp. 53, 98, 238. [Beyer - ABOUT - 277]
SPILLER, Robert E. The Cycle of American Literature. New York: New American Library, January 1957. JS pp. 108, 157, 217, 218-220, 225. [Beyer - ABOUT - 278]
FULLER, Edmund. Man in Modern Fiction: Some Minority Opinions on Contemporary American Writing. New York: Random House, 1958. JS pp. 25-33, 105. [Beyer - ABOUT - 279]
Another copy. New York: Vintage Books, (c1958). [Beyer - ABOUT - 280]
GEISMAR, Maxwell. American Moderns: From Rebellion to Conformity. New York: Hill and Wang, l958. Review slip laid in. JS pp. 151-156. [Beyer - ABOUT - 281]
LEARY, Lewis (editor). Contemporary Literary Scholarship: A Critical Review. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1958. JS pp. 215, 429-434, 453-455. [Beyer - ABOUT - 282]
LEWIS, R. W. B. The Picaresque Saint: Representative Figures in Contemporary Fiction. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1958. JS pp. 33, 104, 181-186, 205. [Beyer - ABOUT - 283]
BODE, Carl (editor). The Young Rebel in American Literature. New York: F. Praeger, (cl959). Contains "John Steinbeck: The Fitful Daemon" by R. W. B. Lewis, pp. 121-141. [Beyer - ABOUT - 284]"
BEACH, Joseph Warren. American Fiction: 1920-1940. New York: Russell and Russell, 1960 (cl941). JS in chapters XV, XVI. See index for further JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 285]
BREWSTER, Dorothy and John Angus Burrell. Modern World Fiction. Paterson, New Jersey: Littlefield, Adams, and Company, 1960. JS p. 65. [Beyer - ABOUT - 286]
HOWARD, Leon. Literature and the American Tradition. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, (c1960). JS pp. 280-283. [Beyer - ABOUT - 287]
LEWIS, R. W. B. The Picaresque Saint: Representative Figures in Contemporary Fiction. London: Victor Gollancz, 1960. JS pp. 33, 104, 181-186, 205. [Beyer - ABOUT - 288]
NYREN, Dorothy (editor). A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1960. JS pp. 465-468. [Beyer - ABOUT - 289]
POWELL, Lawrence Clark. Books in My Baggage. Cleveland/New York: World Publishing Company, (cl960). JS pp. 87, 175, 208, 238. Inscribed by author to Preston Beyer. [Beyer - ABOUT - 290]
BURTIS, Mary Elizabeth and Paul Spencer Wood. Recent American Literature. The New Littlefield College Outlines. Paterson, New Jersey: Littlefield, Adams and Company. JS pp. 302-306. [1960] [Beyer - ABOUT - 291]
ROSS, Danforth. The American Short Story. No. 14. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (c1961). JS pp. 31-32. [Beyer - ABOUT - 292]
BROWN, Deming. Soviet Attitudes Toward American Writing. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1962. See index for JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 293]
CARPENTER, Frederic I. Robinson Jeffers. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1962. Reference to The Pastures of Heaven, p. 33. [Beyer - ABOUT - 294]
MOSELEY, Edwin M. Pseudonyms of Christ in the Modern Novel: Motifs and Methods. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1962. JS Chapter X. See index for further references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 295]
PRESCOTT, Orville. In My Opinion: An Inquiry Into the Contemporary Novel. Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, July 1963. JS pp. 50-74. [Beyer - ABOUT - 296]
GEISMAR, Maxwell. Writers in Crisis: The American Novel: 1925-1940. New York: Hill and Wang, October 1963. See index JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 297]
HYMAN, Stanley Edgar. The Promised End: Essays and Reviews, 1942-1962. Cleveland/New York: World Publishing Company, l963. Contains "John Steinbeck: Of Invertebrates and Men," on pp. l7-22. [Beyer - ABOUT - 298]
LANGFORD, Richard E. (editor). Essays in Modern American Literature. DeLand, Florida: Stetson University Press, 1963. Contains "Steinbeck's Wine of Affirmation in The Grapes of Wrath" by J. P. Hunter, pp. 76-89. [Beyer - ABOUT - 299]
LITZ, A. Walton (editor). Modern American Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. A Galaxy Book. JS pp. 265-277. [Beyer - ABOUT - 300]
SANDS, Maurice. An Outline of the Modern American Novel. Boston: Student Outlines Company, (c1963). JS pp. 119-128. [Beyer - ABOUT - 301]
SEWARD, William W. Contrasts in Modern Writers: Some Aspects of Recent British and American Fiction. New York: Frederick Fell, 1963. JS pp. 16, 18, 80. [Beyer - ABOUT - 302]
DAICHES, David. A Study of Literature for Readers and Critics. New York: W. W. Norton, 1964. The Norton Library. JS pp. 62-64, 95, 132. [Beyer - ABOUT - 303]
DENNY, Margaret and William H. Gilman (editors). The American Writer and the European Tradition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. JS pp. 27, 170, 175-176. [Beyer - ABOUT - 304]
FIEDLER, Leslie A. Waiting for the End. New York: Stein and Day, 1964. JS pp. 9, 36, 57, 61. [Beyer - ABOUT - 305]
FROHOCK, W. M. The Novel of Violence in America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964. See index for JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 306]
MOORE, Geoffrey. American Literature and the American Imagination. Yorkshire, England: University of Hull Publications, 1964. JS pp. l2, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23. [Beyer - ABOUT - 307]
REXROTH, Kenneth. "Afterword" in Frank Norris's McTeague. New York: A Signet Classic, March 1964. JS p. 344. [Beyer - ABOUT - 308]
BAUMBACH, Jonathan. The Landscape of Nightmare: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel. New York/Cleveland: New York University Press, 1965. JS pp. 2, 6. [Beyer - ABOUT - 309]
DUNNING, Stephen and Henry W. Sams. Scholarly Appraisals of Literary Works Taught in High Schools. Champaign, Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English, (cl965). Contains "The Pearl: Realism and Allegory" by Harry Morris, pp. 83-9l. [Beye
FREUND, Philip. The Art of Reading the Novel. New York: Collier Books, 1965. JS pp. 240, 312, 338, 347, 430-431. [Beyer - ABOUT - 311]
STRAUMANN, Heinrich. American Literature in the Twentieth Century. New York: Harper and Row, 1965. JS pp. xxiv, 71, 99, 113-117, 121, 129, 199. [Beyer - ABOUT - 312]
FRENCH, Warren. The Social Novel at the End of an Era. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, l966. Inscribed by author to Preston Beyer. See index for JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 313]
ISHERWOOD, Christopher. Exhumations: Stories, Articles and Verse. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. Contains "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, pp. 25-27. [Beyer - ABOUT - 314]
LEE, Robert Edson. From West to East: Studies in the Literature of the American West. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966. JS p. 161. [Beyer - ABOUT - 315]
STUCKEY, W. J. The Pulitzer Prize Novels: A Critical Backward Look. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. JS pp. 24, 104, 118-121, 167. [Beyer - ABOUT - 316]
WALCUTT, Charles Child. American Literary Naturalism, A Divided Stream. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1966. JS pp. 258-269. [Beyer - ABOUT - 317]
FIEDLER, Leslie A. Waiting for the End. London: Penguin Books, 1967. JS pp. 9, 40, 62, 67. [Beyer - ABOUT - 318]
FRIEDMAN, Maurice. To Deny Our Nothingness: Contemporary Images of Man. New York: Delacorte Press, 1967. JS p. 48. [Beyer - ABOUT - 319]
THORPE, James (editor). Relations of Literary Study: Essays on Interdisciplinary Contributions. New York: Modern Language Association of America, (cl967). Reference to The Grapes of Wrath, p. 13. [Beyer - ABOUT - 320]
FRENCH, Warren G. and Walter E. Kidd (editors). American Winners of the Nobel Literary Prize. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. Inscribed to Preston Beyer. JS p. 6-7, 14, 97, 193-223, 221, 222, 223. [Beyer - ABOUT - 321]
GILBERT, James Burkhart. Writers and Partisans: A History of Literary Radicalism in America. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1968. JS pp. 192, 215. [Beyer - ABOUT - 322]
GURKO, Leo. The Angry Decade: American Literature and Thought from 1929 to Pearl Harbor. New York: Harper Row, 1968. See index for JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 323]
MADDEN, Charles F. (editor). Talks with Authors. Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press, 1968. Warren Beck about JS, pp. 56-72. [Beyer - ABOUT - 324]
WINTERICH, John T. Writers in America, 1842-1967. Jersey City, New Jersey: The Davey Company, 1968. Contains "The Fruits of Wrath: John Steinbeck, pp. 74-76. [Beyer - ABOUT - 325]"
WOODRESS, James (editor). American Literary Scholarship. An Annual/1966. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1968. JS pp. 150, 162-163, 164, 168, 174, 262. [Beyer - ABOUT - 326]
SPILLER, Robert E. The Cycle of American Literature: An Essay in Historical Criticism. Toronto, Ontario: Macmillan, 1969. Twelfth printing. JS pp. 101, 152, 214-217, 223, 226. [Beyer - ABOUT - 328]
COWLEY, Malcolm. A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generation. New York: Viking Press, 1973. JS pp. 83, 107, 222, 227, 238, 240. [Beyer - ABOUT - 329]
 
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