From the Library of 💙Clayre and Jay Mich✅ael Haft

Steinbeck, John

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

8vo. Original cloth in dustjacket with illustration by Elmer Stanley Hader; spine unfaded, minor rubbing along folꦯds and corner, spot of creasing and a short closed tear to top o🧜f front panel, but better than often found.

First edition of Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. 

When one considers the great American novels, The Grapes of Wrath is often ranked alongside the like of The Great Gatsby and Moby-Dick. Steinbeck's now-iconic novel was read widely upon its initial publication, and its influence remains prevalent, inspiring numerous filmmakers and musicians, including John Ford, Steven Spielberg, Woody Guthrie, Pink Floyd, and Bruce Springsteen. When Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, it was The Grapes of Wrath that the commiꦇttee cited for evidence of his achiev♌ement.

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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Goldstone & Payne A121