The Grapes of Wrath.

STEINBECK, John.

Item Number: 5543

New York: The Viking Press, 1939.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Anne Bass John Steinbeck.” The recipient was part of the production team at the Viking Press, where Steinbeck signed this copy upon publication in 1939. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the spine crown. Housed in a half morocco clamshell box.

"The Grapes of Wrath is the kind of art that’s poured out of a crucible in which are mingled pity and indignation Its power and importance do not lie in its political insight but in its intense humanity [It] is the American novel of the season, probably the year, possibly the decade" (Clifton Fadiman).