Grapes Wrath 75th Anniversary by Steinbeck John, First Edition (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Thus. 75th anniversary edition, a facsimile edition.

Full-Leather. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First in this editrion. No ownership names or inscriptions. Clean and complete d/w with a degree of edge wear particularly to fore edge.

Hardcover_boards. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 13TH PRINTING. Features: Price on Product. Target Age Group: 18 and UP. Physical Info: 1.8" H x 8.3" L x 5.7" W (1.35 lbs) 496 pages. Email seller at time of purchase if you would like this DJ in clear mylar free of charge. Secure ship in cardboard w/track #. April 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the first Viking hardcover publication of Steinbeck's crowning literary achievement First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have-nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes the very nature of equality and justice in America. As Don DeLillo has claimed, Steinbeck "shaped a geography of conscience" with this novel where "there is something at stake in every sentence." Beyond that--for emotional urgency, evocative power, sustained impact, prophetic reach, and continued controversy-- The Grapes of Wrath is perhaps the most American of American classics. To commemorate the book's 75th anniversary, this volume is modeled on the first edition, featuring the original cover illustration by Elmer Hader and specially designed endpapers by Michael Schwab.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition Thus. First printing of the 75th Anniversary Edition, hardcover, has a shallow skew to the binding, moderate bumps to the spine ends, heavier bumps to the upper cover corners with a touch of creasing to the upper corner of most pages, and mild shelfwear to the cover edges and lower corners. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, clean Very Good copy in an unclipped, Very Good+ dust jacket, which has light bumps to the spine ends and corners, and a thin diagonal crease to the upper corner of the front flap. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Elmer Hader (DJ) (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Flap contents are from the 1939 editions. Wraparound DJ is by Elmer Hader. Library markings: base of spine indentifier, 2 library stampings - one at each fep, bar code under plastic on rear panel. Protective plastic was taped to boards. Bookseller's Inventory # 171586.