[Rarebooks] FS: Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath Signed by Thomas Hart Benton with 67 Original Lithographs

[Charles Agvent]

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containing 127 select items including a selection of fine bindings and Limited 
Editions Club titles, and a large selection of signed books by Susan B. Anthony, 
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Our new list will contain a superb collection of signed Presidential items, 
mostly books.  It will appear toward the end of the month as we have just 
acquired an extraordinary grouping of material that needs to be processed.

STEINBECK, John. THE GRAPES OF WRATH. New York: Limited Editions
Club  1940.  Two quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") volumes bound in  decorated
grass  cloth boards with rawhide spines. Designed by George Macy  with
introductions  by  Joseph Henry Jackson and Thomas Craven.  The  First
Illustrated  Edition  of this Pulitzer Prize winner with  67  ORIGINAL
TWO-COLOR  LITHOGRAPHS  (black  and  yellow) made on  zinc  plates  by
Thomas  Hart  Benton and printed by George Miller. Copy #862  of  only
1146  printed  SIGNED  by the illustrator. Laid in is a  printed  note
from  the  publisher about this most unusual binding. One of the  most
desirable  books of the press because of the combination of a  smaller
than  normal  printing,  a popular author and  Pulitzer  Prize-winning
book  first  published only the year before, beautiful lithographs  by
Benton,  and  an attractive and unusual binding. Typical  mottling  of
the  rawhide which is still very supple with the silver lettering very
strong.  Both  books  are tight and unread. The slipcase  is  complete
with  just  a little soiling and wear and a white paint stain  at  the
top  edge  near the opening. Fine in Near Fine slipcase.  Lovely  set.
                                                               $1250.00
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