Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; [viii], [5], 6-311, [1] pages
Publisher: Viking, 1961, New York

[Book #14066]

A very beautiful First Edition/First Printing, blue topstain to page edges. Near Fine to Fine condition in alike, very bright dustjacket with only little rubbing. Goldstone/Payne A38b;

Steinbeck's powerful novel of Ethan Hawley who struggles to provide for his family. The Great Depression hits his family hard and he must start from the bottom, working as a produce market clerk. He feels that he must own up to the name created by his predecessors. He is confronted by opportunities that question his integrity and common sense.

Contains all points defining the first trade edition (preceded only by a limited edition of 500 copies) , first printing: (1) Boards in solid blue cloth (2) NO deboss on rear boards by the spine (3) Blue top stain (4) Page edges evenly trimmed (5) 311 pages