Title: Grapes of Wrath Author: Steinbeck, John Place: New York Publisher: Viking Press Date: [1939] Description: (8vo) original beige pictorial cloth, color pictorial jacket with wrap-around artwork by Elmer Hader. First Edition. First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Steinbeck's greatest novel, an epic story of migratory workers during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Acclaimed the twentieth-century Uncle Tom's Cabin, it was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. John Ford directed the well-received film starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Perhaps the most influential, and best remembered book to come out of the Great Depression. The jacket flap corners are clipped (as issued) with the original printed price and "First Edition" statement still present. Goldstone and Payne A12a. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket spine sunned, two small chips at spine head, small tape repair on the reverse, lightly edge worn; light wear to cloth, edges of text block lightly soiled, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, clipped pasted to verso of same leaf; very good. Item number: 286172
Title: Grapes of Wrath Author: Steinbeck, John Place: New York Publisher: Viking Press Date: [1939] Description: (8vo) original beige pictorial cloth, color pictorial jacket with wrap-around artwork by Elmer Hader. First Edition. First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Steinbeck's greatest novel, an epic story of migratory workers during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Acclaimed the twentieth-century Uncle Tom's Cabin, it was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. John Ford directed the well-received film starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Perhaps the most influential, and best remembered book to come out of the Great Depression. The jacket flap corners are clipped (as issued) with the original printed price and "First Edition" statement still present. Goldstone and Payne A12a. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket spine sunned, two small chips at spine head, small tape repair on the reverse, lightly edge worn; light wear to cloth, edges of text block lightly soiled, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, clipped pasted to verso of same leaf; very good. Item number: 286172
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