Books

New York: Viking Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated beige cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 619 pages. 21 x14 cm. With dust wrapper noting "First Edition," and noting the $2.75 price at publication. Dust wrapper designed by Elmer Hader. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Perhaps the most influential, and best remembered book to come out of the Great Depression. Goldstone and Payne A12a. Decorated endpapers, a musical score of the "Battle Hymn of The Republic." Nicks to backstrip head of dust wrapper with slight loss, front cover of dust wrapper at lower foot slightly rubbed, interior contents fresh and clean.

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.