[Rarebooks] FS: Association Copy of THE GRAPES OF WRATH with a Superb Inscription

[Charles Agvent]

STEINBECK, John. THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Garden City, NY: The Sun Dial 
Press, (1941). Reprint. Attractive reprint in essentially the same 
format, though slightly smaller, of this winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 
This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Steinbeck on the front endpaper to 
famed Mexican director and actor Emilio Fernández: "For Emilio (Kikapoo) 
[sic] Fernandez/in hope that/we will have more grapes/than wrath/John 
Steinbeck." A superb and rare inscription incorporating the title of the 
book and a fine association copy. Fernández, whose father was a 
revolutionary general and whose mother was a member of the Kickapoo 
people, directed the 1947 film of Steinbeck's THE PEARL and co-wrote the 
screenplay for it with Steinbeck, one of 129 films Fernández either 
directed or in which he appeared as an actor. Fernández is also rumored 
to be the model for the Oscar statuette, legend suggesting that MGM art 
director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Motion Picture Academy 
members tasked with creating the Academy Award trophy, was introduced to 
Fernández by actress Dolores del Río and persuaded him to pose nude. 
Near Fine in a toned, Very Good or better dustwrapper with light 
chipping at the spine tips. (#020767)        $7,500

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