[Rarebooks] FS: THE GRAPES OF WRATH with 67 Original Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton

[Charles Agvent]

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 #979 of only 1146 printed 
SIGNED by the illustrator. 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 strong. Both volumes are tight and unread. Near 
Fine, lacking the slipcase. (#013478)        $900.00

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