Steinbeck, JohnBiblio.com
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THE GRAPES OF WRATH
1939Best.-Nr. 26543New York: The Viking Press 1939. First Edition. 8vo publisher’s original pictorially decorated tan cloth in original first issue dustjacket with price and "First Edition" statement both present. vi 619 pp. A handsome bright and clean copy the dustjacket whole and without tears light evidence of shelving over time the backstrip of the dustjacket just a touch mellowed by age clean and bright internally solid and very well preserved. AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION AND PERHAPS THE GREATEST BOOK WRITTEN BY THIS NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR. John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel of migrant workers in America. The story of the Joad family simple people living close to nature whose lives are disrupted by the malevolent forces of drought market conditions and human greed. The novel graphically demonstrates the dangers to society when the vital like between rural man and the Earth is broken. The condition of this copy in the pictorial jacket is quite pleasing indeed. The Viking Press hardcover
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