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New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing with "FIRST PUBLISHED IN APRIL 1939" with no additional printings stated on the copyright page. Signed by the author John Steinbeck on a card which has been professionally affixed to the half title page. Provenance of the signature: Purchased directly by us from PBA Galleries who stated that the card was from the estate of Steinbeck's personal assistant Nancy Pearson. Measuring approximately 8.25" x 5.5", with 619 numbered pages. Comes with a brand new facsimile (reproduction) dust jacket for protection and display. This book is in very good condition. Minor surface wear to the cloth boards. Minor staining to the edges of the textblock. Old bookstore sticker on the bottom of the front pastedown. Interior pages are clean. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship,…

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.