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New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Second Printing Before Publication. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Publisher's pictorial linen, endpapers printed with the sheet music for Battle Hymn of the Republic. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Modest shelf-handling wear with soil at the foot of the spine. Owner’s inscription on the front free endpage. In the original, dust jacket, designed by displaying the $2.75 price, lower corner clipped. Very minor edge-wear with older tape reinforcement on the inside; Evenly age-dulled.. The epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. 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. The Grapes of Wrath is an…

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.