The Grapes of Wrath - COMPLETE in Two Vols. w/Slipcase; SIGNED by the illustrator
$1,250 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed · In dust jacket
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover with slipcase. Fine/Very Good. Thomas Hart Benton. 4to. Pp. xxii, [2], 559. Two vols. Frontis. lithograph by Thomas Hart Benton. Essays by Joseph Henry Jackson and Thomas Craven. Illustrated throughout with lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton. Illustrated endpapers. Bound in brown rawhide over grass cloth; spine lettered in silver; illustration to covers. Well-preserved with a very tight binding. In the slipcase, which shows sunning and rubbed edges. Of an edition limited to 1146 hand-numbered copies signed by Thomas Hart Benton, this is 240. A single leaf of paper advising owners on how to care for the rawhide binding is laid in to Vol II.
- Publisher: The Limited Editions Club
- Year: 1940
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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