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1939Best.-Nr. 1508123Viking 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine first edition in a very good first edition dust jacket. First Edition slug on front flap. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Viking hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 108063Viking Press 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket with First Edition stated on the lower corner of the front flap of the dust jacket. Housed in a custom made collector's clamshell case with tooled quarter leather and gilt lettering and decoration. Viking Press hardcover books
1980Best.-Nr. 109160The Franklin Library Pennsylvania 1980. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. Part of "The World's Best-Loved Books" series. Bound in full leather with all edges gilt and a ribbon marker. The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania hardcover books
1980Best.-Nr. 1307025The Franklin Library 1980. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. Full leather bound with gilt detailing and a satin ribbon marker. Part of the "100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" series. Includes "Notes from the Editors" pamphlet. The Franklin Library hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 001933Viking Press. F. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. 50th anniversary edition review copy f/f. Viking Press hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 08758THE GRAPES OF WRATH Viking 1939 first edition small ownership name only stamps on f.e.p and f.p.d slight scattered foxing to the fore edge else just about fine in vg dust-wrapper save for 2 closed tears a bit over one inch long and some minor chipping. Still a most collectable and desirable copy of this 20th century American classic and PULITZER PRIZE winner. Viking Press unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 08759THE GRAPES OF WRATH Viking 1939 first edition near fine in bright vg dust-wrapper save for some slight wear and tear and some professional restoration to small sections of the dust-wrapper spine extremities and inner front dust-wrapper hinge. A most collectable and desirable copy of this 20th century American classic and PULITZER PRIZE winner. Viking Press unknown books
2002Best.-Nr. 371019New York: Penguin Books 2002. Softcover. Fine. Steinbeck Centennial edition. Self wrappers. Slight rubbing on the bottom page edge else fine. Winner of the 1939 National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Basis for the 1940 Academy Award winning film starring Henry Fonda Jane Darwell and John Carradine. Penguin Books unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 12536THE GRAPES OF WRATH Heinemann 1939 first English edition near fine in a vg/near fine dust-wrapper with some light tanning to the dust-wrapper spine and rear dust-wrapper panel. Pulitzer Prize winner. Heinemann unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 15199THE GRAPES OF WRATH Limited Editions Club 1940 first edition thus 2 volumes multi hued rawhide spines very fine in near fine publishers cardboard slipcase with some wear to the head of the box above the spine of the book. Laid in is a single sheet from the publisher entitled "About the Binding of this Book." 1/1146 copies SIGNED by the illustrator Thomas Hart Benton. Limited Editions Club unknown books
1991Best.-Nr. 371391New York: Dramatists Play Service 1991. Softcover. Fine. Acting edition. Wrappers. Faint rubbing else fine. Debuted on stage at the Cort Theatre in 1990 starring Calvin Lennon Armitage Jeremiah Birkett and Robert Breuler. 1990 Tony Award winner for Best Play. Dramatists Play Service unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 1264671940. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1940. 2 vols 4to. Illustrated with 67 two-colored lithographs. Half rawhide and grasscloth illustration to upper boards and silver lettering to backstrips slipcase. Fine copy. § Illustrated with lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton. Number 191 of 1146 numbered copies signed by Benton. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the Great Depression first appeared only the year before this Limited Editions Club edition which remains notable for the beautiful lithographs commissioned from Benton the smaller than usual printing and the unusual and fitting rawhide and grasscloth binding. unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 1418562Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1968. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xxii 559 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's navy blue leather with gilt lettering to spine. Mild general shelf wear. Textblock sunken. Edges of textblock gilt lightly worn on bottom edge and scratched on fore edge. With silk endpapers and a silk ribbon bookmark. Interior pages clean. Note from the publisher laid in. Shelved in Easton Press. 1418562. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover books
1940Best.-Nr. 140948733New York: The Limited Editions Club 1940. Limited Edition. Fine. Limited edition in two volumes #517 of 1146 copies. Signed by the illustrator on the colophon. xxii 2 284; 285-559 1 pp. Bound in publisher's "grass cloth" stamped in brown over quarter rawhide lettered in silver all edges stained yellow pictorial endpapers. Very light soiling to textblock edges else Fine. Binding very square and tight; spines never opened. Housed in the original brown paper-covered slipcase moderately chipped and worn. A beautiful unread set made with great care. Two publisher's slips laid in explain that the book's binding was designed to inspire "emotional sympathy" in the reader before he had even cracked it open: "The 'grass cloth' should if the intention of the designer is realized put the prospective reader in mind of of the parched sun-baked grass of the Dust Bowl. Silver is used for the stamping rather than gold because this is a novel about people in 'the silver country.' And rawhide was planned for the backs of the volumes because it is a leather which might very well have come from an Oklahoman steer." The book's contents are enhanced with duotone lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton a painter and muralist in the vanguard of the Regionalist art movement. Benton was also commissioned to create lithographs to help promote the critically acclaimed film adaption that appeared the same year; his style of populist realism was acknowledged to be a perfect match for Steinbeck's. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
Best.-Nr. 29042Broché, 19X12 cm, sans date, 704 pages, traduction par Karin de Hatker et Albert Debaty, collection messages les meilleures traductions, les éditions de Kogge Bruxelles. Deux pages avec brunissure sinon quelques petites marques d'usage sans gravité, bon état.
1972Best.-Nr. R200036423BORDAS. 1972. In-16. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 128 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840-Littératures des langues romanes. Littérature française
2014Best.-Nr. 2341398New York: The Viking Press 2014. 11th printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 5x1x8. New. Reprint. An exceptional copy. 2014 Hard Cover. 479 pp. April 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the first Viking hardcover publication of Steinbeck's crowning literary achievement. First published in 1939 Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize - winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family the Joads driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have-nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision elemental yet plainspoken tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless of one man's fierce reaction to injustice and of one woman's stoical strength the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes the very nature of equality and justice in America. As Don DeLillo has claimed Steinbeck "shaped a geography of conscience" with this novel where "there is something at stake in every sentence." Beyond that - for emotional urgency evocative power sustained impact prophetic reach and continued controversy - The Grapes of Wrath is perhaps the most American of American classics. To commemorate the book's 75th anniversary this volume is modeled on the first edition featuring the original cover illustration by Elmer Hader and specially designed endpapers by Michael Schwab. The Viking Press hardcover books
1996Best.-Nr. 101956NY:: Library of America. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 1883011159 . Library of America number 86. Stated first printing. About fine in like dust jacket. Sewn-in ribbon bookmark. ; 1034 pages . Library of America, hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 160735New York: Viking Press 1939. First Edition. First Edition. First issue dust jacket with first edition statement at the bottom front jacket flap. Wraparound jacket art by Elmer Hader whose work graced four Steinbeck titles. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece literature's lasting testament to the Great Depression singled-out in his citation for the Nobel Prize decades later. Basis for the 1940 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Ford and supporting actress Jane Darwell won Academy Awards for their work. Near Fine in a bright Near Fine dust jacket. Small tap on the top edge of the rear board. Jacket is lightly toned along the top edges of the flaps and spine with a touch of rubbing on the flap folds and two tiny chips on the crown. An attractive copy. Ahearn APG 014d. Viking Press unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 1607218Heritage Press 1940. Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Inscribed illustrated edition. Inscribed by John Steinbeck on the title page to Mr. and Mrs. O'Quinn. Thomas Hart Benton illustrator. 559 pgs 7 7/8" wide x 10 1/4" tall. Illustrated endpapers. Dark tan cloth with silver lettering . All external page edges have been tinted a light yellow by the publisher. The book spine is slightly sunned. Comes in publisher's slipcase edges worn and top edge on one side split. The book itself is internally unmarked clean tightly bound and in fine condition. All housed in a custom-made slipcase. The story of The O'Quinns: In 1955 John Steinbeck came to Austin Texas to visit his nephew Jon Atkinson. Jon was highschool friends with Kerry O'Quinn. During Steinbeck's visit Kerry went to Jon's house and took his parent's Heritage Club copy of The Grapes of Wrath which Steinbeck signed with the wonderful inscription: "For Mr. & Mrs. Quinn from John Steinbeck who isn't angry at anybody". FYI: When Jon and Kerry graduated highschool in 1956 their parents gave them a two week trip to New York City. John and Elaine Steinbeck were away at Sag Harbor for the summer but offered them the use of his 5-story townhouse on East 72nd Street complete with housekeeper and cook. Elaine helped them to get orchestra seats for all the big Broadway musicals including My Fair Lady which was sold out. Heritage Press hardcover books
1974Best.-Nr. 139926Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1974. First Draft script for an unproduced television movie. Based on John Steinbeck's 1939 novel of the same title and adapted from the screenplay by Nunnally Johnson for the 1940 film. During the Great Depression and dustbowl era a family of tenant farmers living and suffering in Oklahoma and forced to move west abandoning their home. They end up in California with many other "Okies" like them searching for a new future. Peter Knopf is a Emmy-nominated writer best known for his work on "Posse" 1975 "Peter and Paul" 1981 and "Not My Kid" 1985. Set in Oklahoma and California. Green titled wrappers noted as First Draft on the front wrapper dated April 12 1974. Title page present dated April 12 1974 noted as First Draft with credits for novelist Steinbeck screenwriter Knopf screenwriter Johnson and producer Stanley Hough. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
2002Best.-Nr. 2341399New York: Penguin Books 2002. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x1x8. New. Reprint. An exceptional copy. 2002 Trade Paperback. 455 pp. The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression a book that galvanized - and sometimes outraged - millions of readers. First published in 1939 Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family the Joads - driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision elemental yet plainspoken tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless of one man's fierce reaction to injustice and of one woman's stoical strength the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic captivity narrative road novel and transcendental gospel Steinbeck's powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. This Centennial edition specially designed to commemorate one hundred years of Steinbeck features french flaps and deckle-edged pages. Penguin Books paperback books
Best.-Nr. JD28137n.p. 20th Century-Fox 1940 first edition. A complete set of 11X14-inch color lobby card posters for the original release of this classic story and classic film which was directed by the famed John Ford and which starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad Jane Darwell as Ma Joad and John Carradine as Casy the set also includes its original printed housing envelope which is probably even more scarce than the posters the fragile housing envelope is plain brown and is printed with the film title Steinbeck's name Fonda's name etc. none of these posters were in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection but see Goldstone & Payne E6 not recorded by Morrow extremely scarce especially as a complete set and with the housing envelope. While there are pin holes in some corners from theatre mounting as usual these posters are uniformly clean bright and fine. n.p., 20th Century-Fox, 1940, first edition. unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 107282Franklin Center:: Franklin Library. Near Fine. 1975. Hardcover. 1940 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction. Limited edition. Octavo fully bound in red leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Near fine.; 589 pages . Franklin Library, hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 96420NY:: Viking. Very Good. 1939. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize winner. Ninth printing within five months of the first. Moderate shelf wear and aging else very good in tan cloth. No dust jacket. ; 619 pages . Viking, hardcover books
