The Grapes of Wrath
$1,200 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · In dust jacket
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. About very good with stains and bookstore labels on the pastedowns and endpapers, a few small stains to the edge of the textblock and light soiling to the boards in good or better dust jacket with glue residue from extensive tape reinforcement to the inside, toning and moaderate edgewear including nicks, tears and a few small chips. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of an Oklahoma family's migration to California during the Depression. Basis for the John Ford film featuring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Ford and supporting actress Jane Darwell won Academy Awards; Fonda was nominated but lost to Robert Donat in *Goodbye, Mr. Chips!* Steinbeck's masterpiece and literature's lasting testament to the Great Depression, it was singled-out in his citation for the Nobel Prize decades later.
- Publisher: The Viking Press
- Year: 1939
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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