[Rarebooks] FS: GRAPES OF WRATH illustrated with lithographs and SIGNED by Thomas Hart Benton

[Charles Agvent]

One of hundreds of LECs in stock, always, at all times.

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 #755 of only 1146 printed 
SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. 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. Minor wear to the fore-edges of the covers. 
Near Fine, lacking the slipcase.                        $850.00	

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