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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
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- first
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Clarence, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition, Tenth printing. First edition, tenth printing with original dust jacket. Measuring approximately 8.25" x 5.5", with 619 numbered pages.
This book is in good minus condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Both hinges are cracked. Interior pages are bright and clean. Dust jacket is in good minus condition. Moderate chipping to both ends of spine and around all edges of jacket. Moderate scuffing to both panels. Stamp on front flap that states "First Edition is for Literary Guild Members Only". Original 2.75 price on front flap.
Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work.
Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Inventory #(O1-1).
This book is in good minus condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Both hinges are cracked. Interior pages are bright and clean. Dust jacket is in good minus condition. Moderate chipping to both ends of spine and around all edges of jacket. Moderate scuffing to both panels. Stamp on front flap that states "First Edition is for Literary Guild Members Only". Original 2.75 price on front flap.
Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work.
Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Inventory #(O1-1).
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Ernestoic Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5448
- Title
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Tenth printing
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
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Clarence, New York
About Ernestoic Books
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- Cracked
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- Poor
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- Chipping
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