Books and Manuscripts

Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath
New York: The Viking Press, (1939). First edition, first printing (with “First Published in April 1939” on copyright page, and with “First Edition” at bottom of front flap of dust-jacket). 8vo. (vi), 619 pp. Publisher's beige cloth, pictorially stamped in dark red, spotting along top edges and upper joints; top edge stained yellow, other edges trimmed; illustrated endpapers with sheet music of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” printed in reddish-brown; book-plate of William E. Simon and Carol Simon on front free endpaper; in publisher's unclipped and unsophisticated illustrated dust-jacket, designed by Elmer Hader, spine slightly faded, short closed tear in bottom edge of front panel. Goldstone and Payne A12a

A lovely and clean copy of Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set during the Great Depression.