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NAMES & FACES

Author: Date: Wednesday, August 6, 1980
Page: ?????
Section: RUN OF PAPER

The Salinas, Calif., Public Library will buy the original manuscript of John Steinbeck's short novel, "The Pearl," for $75,000. The late Nobel Prize winner was from Salinas, and the city's library already has an extensive collection of letters, recordings and other Steinbeck memorabilia. Library director John Gross, said the manuscript has an appraised value of $150,000 but that Santa Barbara bookseller Bradford Morrow was willing to sell for half that sum. "The Pearl," believed to be the last original Steinbeck manuscript in private hands, first appeared in Woman's Home Companion magazine in 1945. The original story has a different title and a different ending than the first edition published by Viking Press.

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