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Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd., 1939. First Canadian edition with "First Edition" on front flap and "First published in April 1939" on copyright page. Identical to the American Viking first edition except for the publisher. . Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 619 p. 21 cm. Publisher's beige cloth with brown impressing. In mylar-covered dustjacket illustrated by Elmer Hader. Top edge yellow. Music and lyrics for The Battle Hymn of the Republic on endpapers. Small tear to top of front panel. Faint mark on spine cloth. A bit of staining to gutters on endpapers. Some very light marks to text block edges. The story of the trials and tribulations of the Joad family, forced to migrate from the Depression-era "dust bowl" of Oklahoma to California looking for work. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1940 and is considered one of the greatest American novels. The Battle Hymn of the Republic is appropriate for the endpapers since the phrase "the grapes…

The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, is a powerful novel depicting the struggles of the Joad family during the Great Depression as they journey from Oklahoma to California in search of a better life.

The first edition of 'The Grapes of Wrath' published by Viking Press would be bound in beige cloth with the title and author's name printed on the spine and front cover, without the Pulitzer Prize mention since it was awarded in 1940, after the first edition release.