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New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. 619 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth, pictorial unclipped dust jacket by Elmer Hader. Near fine copy, with tape repairs to the jacket corners and some rubbing along front hinge of jacket. First Edition. 619 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Classic Novel of the Great Depression. Very attractive copy of this 20th-century American highspot. The tale of the Joad family as they travel across the country from Oklahoma to California in the midst of the Great Depression is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. It is Steinbeck's masterpiece. The Grapes of Wrath won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer and was central in the awarding of Steinbeck the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Goldstone & Payne A12a

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.