![]() ![]() Copy right page shows 'first published in April 1939'. ![]() There is some discoloration at the bottom along the edges of the boards. Front and back boards have wear to edges and corners. It has $2.75 as the price on the top front flap and 'First Edition' is printed at the bottom on the front flap. ![]() Dust jacket is clean and tidy, covered in clear, removable Mylar. ![]() This is a First Edition copy of the book with a replacement FEL (First Edition Library) cover with the FEL logo on rear flap. Basis for John Ford's Oscar-winning film adaptation (1940), starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, and John Carradine. "A naturalistic and detailed picture of California in the depths of the Depression of the 1930's" (Baird 2333). Steinbeck's best-known novel, narrating the long and enduring struggle of the Joad family to find some measure of happiness, and some thread of human dignity, during their move from Oklahoma to California. In the correct first printing dustjacket, retaining the $2.75 price and "FIRST EDITION" slug to front flap worn, spine-sunned, and split, held together with tape on verso, with some substantial losses to left half of spine and both flaps Poor. Slight forward lean, faint foxing to text edges and endpapers, with a faint scuff at mid-spine Very Good+. Octavo (20.75cm) beige cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in reddish-brown on spine and lower covers yellow topstain dustjacket ,619,pp. ![]()
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