[Rarebooks] FS: Steinbeck's THE GRAPES OF WRATH Illustrated & SIGNED 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 #329 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. Some small holes to the endpapers only, likely due to 
insect damage at some point; the second volume with an old dampstain to 
the top edge, barely discernable on the spine and affecting only the 
very top margin of about half of the pages. Only slight mottling of the 
rawhide which is still supple with the silver lettering strong. Very 
Good in a new slipcase with the original label mounted on the backstrip. 
(#018754)        $850

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