The Grapes of Wrath. by STEINBECK, John - May 1939

New York: The Viking Press,, May 1939. Octavo (202 x 133 mm). Publisher's presentation binding of dark blue half morocco, titles to spine gilt, author's name gilt on brown ground, greyish-tan cloth sides, grey endpapers, top edge gilt. A little rubbing to spine and extremities, endpapers tanned from turn-ins, small chips to the edges of a few leaves at rear. An excellent copy. One of ten copies specially bound for presentation at the request of the author, here with the printed presentation leaf left blank. This is a fifth impression of the first edition, printed in May, only a month after the first impression.