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Steinbeck, John.
The Grapes of Wrath.
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd., London; Toronto;
Date of Publication: 1939
Stock Code: 10474
FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. [6], 553, [1]. Bound in the publisher’s turquoise blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and pale pink end-papers. With the original publisher’s cerise dust-jacket. Cloth a little marked, lightly rubbed to joints with three small nicks to spine-tips. Contents clean and free from ownership inscriptions or annotations. The price clipped dust-jacket is browned, rubbed to joints with minor loss to spine-tips which has been repaired with tape to verso. A very good book in a good dust-jacket. Steinbeck’s canonical work of American realist literature which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. This critically acclaimed novel of itinerant workers during the Great Depression contributed greatly to his Nobel Prize for Literature award in 1962. £180.00