GRAPES OF WRATH by Steinbeck John - 1939

New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original pictorially decorated tan cloth in original first issue dustjacket, with "First Edition" statement present. (vi), 619 pp. A handsome, very bright and clean copy, the dustjacket whole and with a bit of rubbing, light evidence of shelving and use over time, the backstrip of the dustjacket just a touch mellowed by use, very clean and bright internally, the cloth in excellent condition, a very solid and very well preserved copy. AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION AND PERHAPS THE GREATEST BOOK WRITTEN BY THIS NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR. John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel of migrant workers in America. The story of the Joad family, simple people living close to nature, whose lives are disrupted by the malevolent forces of drought, market conditions and human creed. The novel graphically demonstrates the dangers to society when the vital like between rural man and the Earth is broken.
The condition of this copy, in the pictorial jacket, is quite pleasing indeed.