Vintage First Edition HC Book The Forgotten Village John Steinbeck Viking 1941

Vintage First Edition HC Book The Forgotten Village John Steinbeck Viking 1941 Book and Cover are in Very Good pre-owned condition. 1st Edition - a rare first edition (only 15,000 printed in 1941). Size: 10" x 7" x 1", weight 24 oz, 143 pages The novelist who wrote The Grapes of Wrath and the director who produced Crisis and Lights Out in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but The Forgotten Village is unique among them in that the text was written before a single picture was shot. The book and the movie from which it was made have, thus, a continuity and a dramatic growth not to be found in the so-called "documentary" films. The camera crew with Steinbeck's script at hand, recorded this narrative of birth and death, of witch doctors and vaccines, of the old Mexico and the new, spent nine months off the trails of Mexico. They traveled thousands of miles to find just the village they needed; they borrowed children from the government school, took men from the fields, their wives from the markets, and an old medicine woman from her hut by the side of the trail. **** If you’re new to Poshmark - Welcome! Use our sign-up code PROJECT_RELOVE to get $10 off your first purchase.**** All measurements & weights given are approximate, and should be used for reference purposes only. TB671