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New York: Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. 8vo. 619 pp. Dustjacket illustrated by Elmer Hader. Beige cloth with reddish-brown line-drawing & lettering; illustrated endpapers in color pictorial dustjacket with the price $2.75. The "First Edition" statement at lower corner is clipped; all other aspects of the dustjacket are the same as a first edition dustjacket. A very good copy (small stain on ffep edge; old, mostly neat, gluing along title page hinge; two chips at dustjacket spine head joints; wear and chips to extremities); still a presentatble copy. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Basis for the John Ford film featuring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; (Goldstone & Payne A12).

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.