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1939rif. 1665624/04/1939. “The undersigned Viking Press Inc. and John Steinbeck hereby sells grants conveys and assigns to the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation…talking motion picture rights…that he may have in and to the original composition entitled “The Grapes of Wrath”…” A unique and compelling piece of American cinematic history <iframe src=""https://player.vimeo.com/video/258864368"" width=""640"" height=""360"" frameborder=""0"" allowfullscreen=""allowfullscreen""></iframe> “The Grapes of Wrath” won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for fiction in 1940 and helped John Steinbeck earn the Nobel Prize awarded him in 1962 which turned on the “keen social perception” in this book. At the time of the Dust Bowl when hundreds of thousands of Americans migrated to the West Coast mainly California in search of a better life Steinbeck was writing a series of seven articles about migrant worker communities for the San Francisco Chronicle. He spent a lot of time getting to know families who lived in various migrant worker camps in towns like Bakersfield and Visalia and was angered and disgusted by the amount of heartbreak and suffering that he witnessed. He channeled those emotions as he wrote his classic - “The Grapes of Wrath”. Published in 1939 by Viking Press “The Grapes of Wrath” vividly portrays life during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in America as it follows a family of Oklahoma tenant farmers driven from their home by drought economic hardship agricultural industry changes and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. The family traveled westward to California seeking jobs land dignity and a future. It explores the strength and goodness of the human spirit in the face of gruesome truly dismal circumstances. This novel had a profound impact in America. Many people applauded Steinbeck for capturing so honestly the lives of migrant farm workers during the Depression and starkly pointing out conditions they faced. There were calls for social action in response. Eleanor Roosevelt took interest and as a result she called for congressional hearings on migrant worker camp conditions. Labor laws were changed. Others accused Steinbeck of being a socialist and of championing leftist beliefs. Confident that the book would be a smash hit Hollywood rushed to make a film on the book even as it first hit the book shops. The film they made “The Grapes of Wrath” is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time. It was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for Twentieth Century Fox directed by John Ford and starred Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards including for Best Picture Actor Fonda Film Editing Sound and Writing. Ford won the Best Director Oscar and actress Darwell won Best Actress for her portrayal of Ma Joad. In 1989 “The Grapes of Wrath” was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation by the Library of Congress for its U.S. National Film Registry as being ""culturally historically or aesthetically significant.” This is the original contract in which Twentieth Century Fox obtained the rights from John Steinbeck and Viking Press to make the film “The Grapes of Wrath”. It is one of the most important if not the most important piece of American film history to ever reach the market. Document signed on Twentieth Century Fox’s own stationery one sheet with text on both sides New York April 24 1939 just days after the novel's initial release. It provides: “…the undersigned Viking Press Inc. and John Steinbeck hereby sells grants conveys and assigns to the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation…the right title and interest of the undersigned throughout the world in and to the silent sound and dialogue and talking motion picture rights…that he may have in and to the original composition entitled “The Grapes of Wrath”…” It identifies the author as John Steinbeck the publisher as Viking Press and gives the copyright date as April 16 1939. Steinbeck and the president of Viking Press Harold Guinzberg have signed at the conclusion on the verso and the contract has been notarized there the notary stating that Steinbeck had personally appeared before her. unknown books
1937rif. 140948912New York: Covici Friede 1937. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A family presentation copy inscribed by John Steinbeck on the front free endpaper to his sister Beth and her husband Eugene Ainsworth; Beth's bookplate to front pastedown. First edition first printing first issue with "pendula" on page 9 and a bullet between the two 8's of the page number on page 88. 186 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in orange and black blue topstain. Near Fine with foxing to cloth textblock edges endpapers and intermittently throughout. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with soft creasing to front and rear panels with a short closed tear at the bottom edge of the front light wear foxing and toning. Goldstone & Payne A7.a. One of just 2500 copies printed in the first issue given by the author to his beloved older sister whom he held up as a model of integrity in the dedication to Winter of Our Discontent: "To Beth my sister whose light burns clear." Steinbeck was satisfied with his novella about the struggles of two itinerant farm workers but he didn't expect the book to make any money. It ended up selling 117000 copies in less than a month. The story was originally intended for children and The Times called it a "fairy tale" in its review. The novella is now assigned to grade school students across the country as their first introduction to Steinbeck. Covici Friede unknown
1937rif. 140948912New York: Covici Friede 1937. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A family presentation copy inscribed by John Steinbeck on the front free endpaper to his sister Beth and her husband Eugene Ainsworth; Beth's bookplate to front pastedown. First edition first printing first issue with "pendula" on page 9 and a bullet between the two 8's of the page number on page 88. 186 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in orange and black blue topstain. Near Fine with foxing to cloth textblock edges endpapers and intermittently throughout. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with soft creasing to front and rear panels with a short closed tear at the bottom edge of the front light wear foxing and toning. Goldstone & Payne A7.a. One of just 2500 copies printed in the first issue given by the author to his beloved older sister whom he held up as a model of integrity in the dedication to Winter of Our Discontent: "To Beth my sister whose light burns clear." Steinbeck was satisfied with his novella about the struggles of two itinerant farm workers but he didn't expect the book to make any money. It ended up selling 117000 copies in less than a month. The story was originally intended for children and The Times called it a "fairy tale" in its review. The novella is now assigned to grade school students across the country as their first introduction to Steinbeck. Covici Friede unknown books
1939rif. ST18154New York: The Viking Press 1939. FIRST EDITION First Printing with the words "First Published in April 1939" printed on the copyright page. 210 x 135 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 3/8". 3 p.l. 619 pp. Publisher's pictorial linen endpapers printed with the sheet music for "Battle Hymn of the Republic." In the original unclipped dust jacket displaying the $2.75 price and "First Edition." In a fine modern blue calf clamshell box. Goldstone-Payne A12.a. A PRISTINE COPY. Published when America was still deep in the Great Depression "The Grapes of Wrath" is a novel detailing the heartbreak of rural dispossession and a work that in the words of ANB "captured the decade's angst as well as the nation's legacy of fierce individualism visionary prosperity and determined westward movement." In citing it as one of the "Books that Shaped America" the Library of Congress noted "Few novels can claim that their message led to actual legislation but 'The Grapes of Wrath' did just that. Its story of the travails of Oklahoma migrants . . . ignited a movement in Congress to pass laws benefiting farmworkers. When Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962 the committee specifically cited this novel as one of the main reasons for the award." The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and was printed in a large press run making it readily available at the time and ever since. But the present unsurpassably fine copy of Steinbeck's greatest work is almost literally from a time capsule: it is one of a dozen or so copies discovered in a warehouse in the 1980s still in their unopened boxes from Viking Press. While the copies at the bottom of the box had suffered some water damage those in the upper layers like the present one look unchanged from the day they were packed by the publisher. While there are numerous copies of this book currently on the market the condition here sets it far above the competition. It is certainly the finest copy of any important modern first edition we have ever offered for sale. The Viking Press unknown books
1939rif. 16902JNew York: Viking Press 1939. First Edition First Issue. With a remarkable poignant and historic inscription written by John Steinbeck in blue ink on the half title: “’My man is in jail fo’ striken’: / It ain’t against the law! / My boy is in jail fo’ strikin’ / It ain’t against the Law! / We say - ‘Plead Not Guilty / And rot they damned jail down’. From a speech by a woman cotton picker Cotton Strike Shafter Calif. 1938 / John Steinbeck.” A minor tiny bit of aging else near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Enclosed in custom clamshell box. Laid in is an autograph letter signed from a noted screenwriter and film director who was the original owner of the book providing provenance. An American literary landmark winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the basis of the acclaimed motion picture starring Henry Fonda directed by John Ford. Viking Press unknown
1966rif. 140946326Various places: No Publisher 1966. A vast archive of correspondence featuring approximately 395 letters postcards and correspondences from the iconic American author John Steinbeck sent to family members over the course of twenty-nine years. The scope is incredible spanning from the publication of his masterpiece Of Mice and Men to two years before his death. Provenance: from the estate of John's sister Mary Dekker Steinbeck. The bulk of John's correspondence over 300 letters is written to his younger and much-adored sister Mary. These letters span a sweeping twenty-eight year period beginning in 1937 and continue until right before Mary's death in 1965. The remainder of John's letters are written to other family members primarily his sisters Beth and Esther Mary's daughter Joan and her husband David Heyler. These letters continue up until 1966. The majority of the letters and postcards are autograph though roughly 93 are typed or typed and signed; including roughly 14 typed and sent in triplicate by John to his three sisters. The vast majority of John's letters are accompanied by their original transmittal envelopes-over the years postmarks come from various locations such as New York City Sag Harbor California Mexico the Virgin Islands Europe and more detailing John's life by location. The condition varies but most range from Near Fine to Very Good. A spreadsheet of the contents can be provided upon request. A partial transcription is available as well serious inquiries only. The archive additionally includes 165 pieces of communication from other family members mostly sent within the family and a small assortment of ephemera. The majority of these peripheral letters were sent by John's second wife Gwyn Conger Steinbeck m. 1943-1948 and third Elaine Steinbeck m. 1950-1968 to Mary. These correspondences begin in 1940 when William Bill Dekker a World War I pilot sends his wife Mary a letter home. Bill would disappear in action over Italy in July 1943 and John would detail attempts he made overseas with his military correspondent connections to locate Bill in letters he sent Mary. The family letters stretch onward until 1997 nearly 30 years after John died with letters from Elaine written to Joan and David. Included in the assorted ephemera is a note from Mary to John's editor and friend Pat Covici on the necessity of the title East of Eden notes two typescripts seven snapshot photographs depicting John and several others on a boat and one depicting John in a yard being greeted by a dog. Several telegrams are present; including the one John sent to Mary relaying the news of the birth of his second son John IV June 12 1946: "A BOY BOTH FINE 5 POUNDS 4 OUNCES. LOVE= JOHN". These letters portray a sweeping and intimate look at Steinbeck's life as told in his own words and the words of those closest to him through deeply personal letters covering his private and professional life during his most artistically productive years. He ranges over countless topics from the mundane minutia of daily life such as stockpiling meat in his new deep freeze to save a few pennies per pound should meat prices raise to the profound-childhood memories the births of his sons the collapse of his marriage to Gwyn his grappling with depression mortality and much more. Despite John's worldwide acclaim and success winning both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes his nostalgic thoughts often drift back to a green cliff overlooking the Carmel River of his youth. He writes at length of his professional life his work and milestones from being a war correspondent to novelist and playwright. He expounds on the ups and downs of his writing process-from research to starting new work becoming frustrated and throwing work out finishing work and starting again. Collections of this magnitude and breadth regarding such a major American author are virtually unobtainable in the marketplace with most material already held by institutions. Because this correspondence comes from family members it offers a much more intimate and private look into the life of John Steinbeck than otherwise available. Despite his prolificacy he never wrote an autobiography and these intimate letters offer insights available no other way. [No Publisher] unknown
1966rif. 140946326Various places: No Publisher 1966. A vast archive of correspondence featuring approximately 395 letters postcards and correspondences from the iconic American author John Steinbeck sent to family members over the course of twenty-nine years. The scope is incredible spanning from the publication of his masterpiece Of Mice and Men to two years before his death. Provenance: from the estate of John's sister Mary Dekker Steinbeck. The bulk of John's correspondence over 300 letters is written to his younger and much-adored sister Mary. These letters span a sweeping twenty-eight year period beginning in 1937 and continue until right before Mary's death in 1965. The remainder of John's letters are written to other family members primarily his sisters Beth and Esther Mary's daughter Joan and her husband David Heyler. These letters continue up until 1966. The majority of the letters and postcards are autograph though roughly 93 are typed or typed and signed; including roughly 14 typed and sent in triplicate by John to his three sisters. The vast majority of John's letters are accompanied by their original transmittal envelopes-over the years postmarks come from various locations such as New York City Sag Harbor California Mexico the Virgin Islands Europe and more detailing John's life by location. The condition varies but most range from Near Fine to Very Good. A spreadsheet of the contents can be provided upon request. A partial transcription is available as well serious inquiries only. The archive additionally includes 165 pieces of communication from other family members mostly sent within the family and a small assortment of ephemera. The majority of these peripheral letters were sent by John's second wife Gwyn Conger Steinbeck m. 1943-1948 and third Elaine Steinbeck m. 1950-1968 to Mary. These correspondences begin in 1940 when William Bill Dekker a World War I pilot sends his wife Mary a letter home. Bill would disappear in action over Italy in July 1943 and John would detail attempts he made overseas with his military correspondent connections to locate Bill in letters he sent Mary. The family letters stretch onward until 1997 nearly 30 years after John died with letters from Elaine written to Joan and David. Included in the assorted ephemera is a note from Mary to John's editor and friend Pat Covici on the necessity of the title East of Eden notes two typescripts seven snapshot photographs depicting John and several others on a boat and one depicting John in a yard being greeted by a dog. Several telegrams are present; including the one John sent to Mary relaying the news of the birth of his second son John IV June 12 1946: "A BOY BOTH FINE 5 POUNDS 4 OUNCES. LOVE= JOHN". These letters portray a sweeping and intimate look at Steinbeck's life as told in his own words and the words of those closest to him through deeply personal letters covering his private and professional life during his most artistically productive years. He ranges over countless topics from the mundane minutia of daily life such as stockpiling meat in his new deep freeze to save a few pennies per pound should meat prices raise to the profound-childhood memories the births of his sons the collapse of his marriage to Gwyn his grappling with depression mortality and much more. Despite John's worldwide acclaim and success winning both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes his nostalgic thoughts often drift back to a green cliff overlooking the Carmel River of his youth. He writes at length of his professional life his work and milestones from being a war correspondent to novelist and playwright. He expounds on the ups and downs of his writing process-from research to starting new work becoming frustrated and throwing work out finishing work and starting again. Collections of this magnitude and breadth regarding such a major American author are virtually unobtainable in the marketplace with most material already held by institutions. Because this correspondence comes from family members it offers a much more intimate and private look into the life of John Steinbeck than otherwise available. Despite his prolificacy he never wrote an autobiography and these intimate letters offer insights available no other way. [No Publisher] unknown books
