Book club edition. Lacks jacket. Small ink scribble on front paste-down endpaper. 1939 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 473 pp. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family's life on a failing Oklahoma farm, their difficult journey to California, and their disillusio... View More...
Jacket edges lightly rubbed with a few minor tears. Front endpaper missing. 1961 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 281 pp. 8vo. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.” Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline in their status, his wife is restless, and his teenag... View More...
12th printing. Lacks jacket. Front hinge just starting, ink owner stamp on front endpaper. 1939 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 619, [1] pp. 8vo. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family's life on a failing Oklahoma farm, their difficult journey to California, a... View More...
Faint smudge on spine, top edge faintly foxed. 1983 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 424 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family's life on a fa... View More...
First edition ('First published in April 1939' stated on copyright page). Includes new facsimile of the Elmer Hader jacket. Spine toned, boards lightly soiled, edges a bit foxed, a bit musty, ink name and date on front endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 619, [1] pp. 8vo. Battle Hymn of the Republic endpapers. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel that encapsulated the American experience during the Great Depression. It inspired the equally successful John Ford film starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell and John Carradine, which won two Academy Awards. View More...
Slipcase very lightly toned. Light stain on front board. A good copy in a very good slipcase. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 909 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. The Library of America presents for the first time in one volume Steinbeck’s early writings, which expressed his abiding concerns for community, social justice, and the elemental connection between nature and human society. In prose that blends the vernacular and the incantatory, the local and the mythic, these five works chart Steinbeck’s evolution into one... View More...
Publisher:
Armed Services, Inc. / The Council on Books in Wartime: 1936
Seller ID: 2206843
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Good
A few creases on front wrapper along spine, edges rubbed, pages lightly toned. 1936 Soft Cover. 285, [1] pp. Oblong, printed wrappers. A reissue of Steinbeck's first novel, released for distribution to members of the United States Armed Services during World War II. Cup of Gold: A life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History (1929) was John Steinbeck's first novel, a work of historical fiction based loosely on the life and death of privateer Henry Morgan. It centres on Morgan's assault and sacking of Panama City (the Cup of Gold), and the woman fairer than the sun ... View More...
Reissue. 1 inch chip from front jacket corner, minor loss from other corners. 1947 Hard Cover. 468, [2] pp. 8vo. Introduction by Carl Van Doren, illustrations by John Groth. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family's life on a failing Oklahoma farm, their difficult journey to California,... View More...
Book club edition. Includes publisher's slipcase. Original book club receipt laid in. Spines faded, slipcase edges a bit rubbed, top slipcase seam repaired. 1946 Hard Cover. 1043, i pp. Three 8vo volumes, paginated continuously. A historical novel in three parts, depicting Scandinavian life during the Middle Ages, by the Norwegian author and winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sigrid Undset (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Nor... View More...
Reprint. An exceptional copy. 1992 Trade Paperback. A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement -- and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile. View More...
2nd printing. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author! 429 pp. As this concluding volume of his moving and revealing memoirs begins, Elie Wiesel is forty years old, a writer of international repute. Determined to speak out more actively for both Holocaust survivors and the disenfranchised everywhere, he sets himself a challenge: I will become militant. I will teach, share, bear witness. I will reveal and try to mitigate the victims' solitude. He makes words his weapon, and in these pages we relive with him his unstinting battles. We see him meet with world leaders and tra... View More...
