An eternal classic!
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
BY
JOHN STEINBECK
WITH ORIGINAL TWO COLOR LITHOGRAPHS BY
THOMAS HART BENTON
The Limited Editions Club
New York
1940
SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, THOMAS HART BENTON!!
DESCRIPTION OF BOOK:
A lovely set.. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Two 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 #649 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.
SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
There are 67 two color plates.
The books are 7 3/4“ wide x 10 3/8“ high.
DESCRIPTION OF CONDITION:
Typical mottling of the rawhide which is a
bit stiff from not having been used or oiled, with the silver lettering on the
spine. Both books are tight and unread, clean and sparkling inside. The slipcase
is NOT in very good shape, in fact it is in pieces.
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ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY:
John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 – December
20, 1968) is one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the
20th century. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, he wrote the
novellahttp:// Of Mice and Men (1937) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The
Grapes of Wrath (1940), both of which examine the lives of the working class and
the migrant worker during the Great Depression. Steinbeck populated his stories
with struggling characters and is often considered an exponent of the naturalist
school. His characters and his stories drew on real historical conditions and
events in the first half of the 20th century. His body of work reflects his wide
range of interests, including marine biology, jazz, politics, philosophy,
history, and myth.
Seventeen of his works, including Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), and
East of Eden (1955), went on to become Hollywood films, and Steinbeck
himself achieved success as a Hollywood writer, garnering an Academy Award
nomination for Best Writing for Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, in 1945.
He was known by many as a regionalist, naturalist, mystic, and proletarian
writer. He was also respected for his empathy for the migrant workers of the
time.
Thomas Hart Benton, or Tom Benton (April 15, 1889 - January 19,
1975) was an American muralist of the Regionalist school. His fluid, almost
sculpted paintings showed everyday scenes of the contemporary Midwest,
especially bucolic images of pre-industrial farmlands.