The Grapes Of Wrath

by Steinbeck, John

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath stands as a pivotal piece of American literature. The story follows the Joad family (and thousands of others) as they are driven from the Oklahoma farm where they are sharecroppers during the Great Depression. The drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries send them searching for dignity and honest work in the bountiful state of California. The novel earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1940, and inspired the classic film of the same name the same year. The film starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, and Steinbeck's words and ideas shine through that medium. In 1962, Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for the body of his work, and The Grapes of Wrath stands as his most recognized and esteemed book. -

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 The book was first published in 1939, by The Viking Press. Commonly found flaws in the first edition of this work include age tanning, rolling of the spine, and chips to the edges of the pages and boards. Signed copies of a First Edition in excellent condition can fetch over $20,000. The first UK edition was printed by William Heinemann, also in 1939. Signed First UK editions are also collectible, often sold for over $5,000 USD. 

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1939
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New York: Viking Press, 1939 First printing/first issue of the first edition; original beige cloth boards, in original first issue dust jacket. Book with mild toning primarily near gutters of the illustrated endpapers and faint rubbing to bottom boards, else in fine condition; dust jacket with a closed tear and diagonal crease to bottom front cover, soft diagonal crease to… Read more about this item
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NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. No book is more identified with John Steinbeck than this masterpiece which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and which was the source for the film version directed by John Ford that starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad and which won Jane Darwell an Academy Award for her… Read more about this item
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1939 April
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Ninth printing
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1939
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New York: Viking Press, 1939. Ninth printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. Viking Press September 1939 ninth printing, as stated. Natural fiber cloth pictorial boards have very light wear. Faint age toning on very outer edges. Spine has deeper coloring but with no wear. The boards are in remarkable condition with no bumps, top and bottom of spine is… Read more about this item
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1939
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An 11th printing in an 11th printing jacket. Chips to crown of spine and very small chip to front of DJ. Chip and tear to rear tip of DJ at the top corner. All flaps are clipped, but the original price of $2.75 is on the jacket but half… Read more about this item
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New York: The Viking Press,, 1939. Presentation copy, connecting Steinbeck and Hemingway First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author "For Vincent Sheean, John Steinbeck" and additionally inscribed by the recipient, "Although it is signed to me, Mr Steinbeck intended this book to go for the Spanish intellectuals in exile - Vincent Sheean". Vincent Sheean (1899-1975), the… Read more about this item
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The Grapes of Wrath: Penguin Modern Classics

The Grapes of Wrath: Penguin Modern Classics

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First Thus, First Printing
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1939
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Hardcover
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New York: The Viking Press/ Book Club Edition.. Book Club edition very similar to the first edition, using the same illustration for the covers; no inscriptions. Differs from the first edition in the layout of the copyright page and the texture of the cloth covering the boards. Narrow water mark to the edge of the front pastedown. An opportunity… Read more about this item
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The Grapes of Wrath

by Steinbeck, John

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First Edition/12th Printing
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1940
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Hardcover
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New York: The Viking Press, 1940. First Edition/12th Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. In tan cloth boards with iconic wraparound illustration in blue. Red tinted top page ends. Previous owner's name in ink to front pastedown. In very nice shape with clean interior and tight binding. Only the faintest spotting to front and bottom page ends. Appears unread given… Read more about this item
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1939
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New York: The Viking Press, 1939. FIRST EDITION, First Printing, with the words "First Published in April 1939" printed on the copyright page. 210 x 135 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 3/8"). 3 p.l., 619 pp. Publisher's pictorial linen, endpapers printed with the sheet music for "Battle Hymn of the Republic." In the original, unclipped dust jacket displaying… Read more about this item
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London, Heinemann, 1939, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. With the very scarce wrap-around band noting this was a Book Society Fiction Choice, this copy with a small slip affixed to the title page that is Inscribed by John Steinbeck ("For L. Downing/John Steinbeck"), Goldstone & Payne A12b, Morrow 108. Near fine.
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First Edition
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1939
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New York: Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Octavo. Hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket. [3], 619 pages, [1]. Illustrated end papers. Original price of 2.75 located on the inner front flap of the jacket. Dust jacket is edge and shelf worn on the front. Jacket also has some small scuff marks and is chipped head of… Read more about this item
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First Edition Later Printing
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1939
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Hardcover
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New York, New York: Viking Press, 1939. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/VG-. From a single collector's estate, this is a true FIRST EDITION, but later (7th) printing ) from June 1939, with all requisite points of issue. Hardcover book has nubby oatmeal-colored cloth over boards with embossed design in brown that wraps around front to… Read more about this item
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The Grapes of Wrath (1967 Facsimile Edition of the 1939 First Edition)

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The Viking Press, 1967-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Book club edition
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New York, Viking Press, 1939. . First edition, first printing; 8vo; publisher's beige cloth, decoration to boards and and titles to spine in brown, pictorial endpapers, yellow topstain, pictorial dust-jacket, a little rubbed and tanned, somewhat sunned at the spine; this is the correct state with, 'FIRST EDITION' on the front flap and with the $2.75 price extant, spotting… Read more about this item
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The Grapes of Wrath (75th Anniversary Edition)
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Fine
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First Thus
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2014
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Hardcover
ISBN 10
067001690x
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking, 2014. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Exact reproduction of the original First Edition from Viking, orig. published in hardcover in 1939; this is the First Printing of this 75th Anniversary Edition from 2014. Condition is Fine/Fine (our highest grade): putty-colored cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine, in 479 pages with Route 66… Read more about this item
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1st Edition
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1939
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Viking Press, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket (with First Edition stated on the lower corner of the front flap of the dust jacket). Housed in a custom made collector's clamshell case with tooled quarter leather and gilt lettering and decoration.
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First edition
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1939
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New York: Viking Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated beige cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 619 pages. 21 x14 cm. With dust wrapper noting "First Edition," and noting the $2.75 price at publication. Dust wrapper designed by Elmer Hader. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Perhaps the most influential, and best remembered book to come out… Read more about this item
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1939
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New York: Viking Press, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Some darkening to the pastedowns, else near fine in a fair only but basically intact dustwrapper with the "first edition" slug intact on the front flap. The jacket is considerably tanned and rubbed, with small chips, most at the spinal extremities. Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of an Oklahoma family's… Read more about this item
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First Edition/4th Printing
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1940
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Hardcover
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New York: The Viking Press, 1940. First Edition/4th Printing. Hardcover. Good/N/A. In tan cloth boards with iconic wraparound illustration in brown. Some tanning and soiling to spine and board ends with a few marks to page ends. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. In brand new high quality facsimile jacket.
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