by John Steinbeck
First edition, first printing in original dust jacket
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First edition, first printing. [vi], 619 pp. Bound in publisher's oatmeal speckled cloth with brown pictorial stamping, yellow topstain, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" endpapers. Near Fine with darkening to cloth at joints, light soiling to lower board and textblock edges, and faint offsetting to endpapers. In a Near Fine correct first printing dust jacket with publisher's price ($2.75) and "First Edition" statement present on front flap. Trivial toning, small puncture to front flap fold. A beautiful copy in the original pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Elmer Hader. Goldstone & Payne A12.
The classic American novel of the Great Depression and Okie migration, which won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It inspired the acclaimed 1940 John Ford film.