The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John

first edition. 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 portrayal of Ma Joad, the book was also the source for the Tony Award-winning Broadway play, one of the true high spots of 20th Century literature, jacket designed by Elmer Hader, see Goldstone & Payne A12a, see Morrow 107. Jacket with no darkening along the spine panel, not price-clipped, no tears, FIRST EDITION tab still intact, no names or bookplates, with the most minor extremity wear, very scarce thus, a superior copy.