Description
First edition, first printing of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, in the publisher’s dust jacket.
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. Light foxing and toning to cloth spine. In the publisher’s dust jacket, price clipped, archival tape repairs to verso along the spine, front hinge reinforced, light toning to spine, wear along both hinge flaps, a solid example.
(Goldstone & Payne, A12a)
Previous ownership inscription on the front free endpaper, dated “Easter, 1939.”
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.
