Sale 23BP01 | Lot 139

STEINBECK, JOHN The Grapes of Wrath.

Catalogue: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
STEINBECK, JOHN  The Grapes of Wrath.

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Lot 139
STEINBECK, JOHN The Grapes of Wrath.
New York: Viking, 1939. First edition, with "First published April 1939" on the copyright page. Publisher's beige pictorial cloth imprinted pictorially in maroon, in the original dust jacket with "first edition" stated and retaining the $2.75 price. 8 x 5 1/4 inches; [vi], 619 pp. The jacket spine with minor toning and a few tiny spots mid-spine but generally strong color, a half-inch clean tear to the head of the rear panel, minor rubbing to extremities of jacket; slight soiling to top edge of text block, front endpaper and recto of half-title a trifle foxed, very slight lean, in all a very attractive copy..

Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the Great Depression, in an unrestored example of the colorful dust jacket. Goldstone and Payne A12a.


Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800
Sold for $5,355 (includes buyer's premium)

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Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800
Sold for $5,355 (includes buyer's premium)

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