National Book Auctions: Books and Ephemera - Cuba, Sheet Music etc.: Lot 3100
John Steinbeck THE GRAPES OF WRATH 1939 First Edition in Rare Dustjacket Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic Novel
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Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: Viking Press
Printing Year: 1939 First Edition in Rare Dustjacket
Condition/Details: Bound in pictorial light brown cloth, this volume is a scarce first edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of an Oklahoma family's migration to California during the Depression. The novel served as the basis for the John Ford film featuring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Steinbeck's masterpiece and literature's lasting testament to the Great Depression, it was singled-out in his citation for the Nobel Prize decades later.
The volume shows light external age/wear, and is solidly bound with clean pages. A number of newspaper clippings relating to the Oklahoma migrants have been pasted to preliminary pages. Intact pictorial dustjacket by Elmer Hader (priced $2.75 and with the first edition statement on front flap) shows small tears to edges and corners. Tape appears at bottom of front flap and at bottom and top of rear flap. Water marking appears on upper left-hand side of front cover. The book measures approximately 5 3/4" x 8 1/4" and contains 619 pages. Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $4.50
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