[Rarebooks] FS: THE GRAPES OF WRATH Illustrated & SIGNED by Thomas Hart Benton

[Charles Agvent]

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 #562 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 supple with the silver lettering clear. Both books are very tight 
and unread. About Fine in a Fine slipcase and increasingly uncommon as 
such. (#019820)        $1,500

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