[Rarebooks] FS: Limited Edition of THE GRAPES OF WRATH with 67 original lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton

[Charles Agvent]

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STEINBECK, John. THE GRAPES OF WRATH. New York: Limited Editions Club, 
1940. First Illustrated Edition. 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. Some fraying to 
the fore-edges of the covers. Still Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. 	 
$850.00

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