THE GRAPES OF WRATH: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
New York: Viking, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition thus, first printing, with a new introduction by Studs Terkel. This copy is inscribed and dated by the author’s widow on the half-title: “In memory of my husband, John Steinbeck, Elaine Steinbeck”. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titling. Mild bump to the spine head; else near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
A naturalistic novel with proletarian themes, depicting the migration of a dispossessed family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to the migrant labor camps of California, The Grapes of Wrath received both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award upon its publication in 1939, and remains a landmark of 20th century American literature. Near fine / Near fine. Item #80240
ISBN: 0670826383
Price: $650.00