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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An 11th printing in an 11th printing jacket. Chips to crown of spine and very small chip to front of DJ. Chip and tear to rear tip of DJ at the top corner. All flaps are clipped, but the original price of $2.75 is on the jacket but half of the "5" in the $2.75 price has been clipped. Ownership inscription on FFEP. A very nice copy in a like jacket.
Synopsis
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath stands as a pivotal piece of American literature. The story follows the Joad family (and thousands of others) as they are driven from the Oklahoma farm where they are sharecroppers during the Great Depression. The drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries send them searching for dignity and honest work in the bountiful state of California. The novel earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1940, and inspired the classic film of the same name the same year. The film starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, and Steinbeck's words and ideas shine through that medium. In 1962, Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for the body of his work, and The Grapes of Wrath stands as his most recognized and esteemed book. -
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- EGR books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3055
- Title
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; John Steinbeck;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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