Description
First edition, first printing of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, in the publisher’s first state dust jacket.
Octavo, [6], 619pp. [1]. Publisher’s gray cloth covers, end papers illustrated with “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Stated “First Published in April 1939” on copyright page. Yellow top stain. Faint offsetting to endpapers, which is typical with this book. Internally clean. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, with “First Edition” and $2.75 retail price on front flap, some chips at head of the spine, sunning to the spine, free of restoration. (Goldstone & Payne, A12a)
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. Dust jacket designed by Elmer Hader.
