Description
First edition, first printing of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, in the publisher’s first state dust jacket. Includes a cut signature on title page.
Octavo, [6], 619pp. [1]. Publisher’s gray cloth covers, illustrated endpapers with “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Stated “first published in April 1939” on copyright page. Yellow top stain. Soiling to cloth and foxing to fore edge. Internally clean, free of marks or notations. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, with “First Edition” and $2.75 retail price on front flap, archival repairs to verso, closed tears repaired, front hinge reinforced, general soiling to covers, a well worn example. Housed in custom brown leather clamshell, title in gilt on spine.
(Goldstone & Payne, A12a)
Includes a cut signature from the author, affixed to the title page.
Winner of the National Book Award for fiction and the Pulitzer Prize. This book follows the story of a poor family of tenant farmers through the economic turmoil of the Great Depression. An important piece of American literature. Dust jacket designed by Elmer Hader.
