John Steinbeck

Steinbeck, John

Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, [April, 1939]

8vo. Tan cloth, decoratively stamped in brown on cover and spine, unclipped dust jacket; small closed tear to upper rear of dust jacket, spine lightly sunned.

First edition of the classic novel of the Great Depression.

The tale of the Joad family as they travel across the country from Oklahoma to California in the midst of the Great Depression is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. It is Steinbeck's masterpiece. The Grapes of Wrath won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer and was central in the awarding of Steinbeck the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.