Accession number
PML 187139
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Published
New York : The Viking Press, 1939.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Differences between the dummy and the published trade edition include: variant title page (different typefaces, with Viking Press vignette and date), blank title page verso, and extra lines of type on pages 5 and 6; in plain printed cloth binding with plain endpapers and the top edge of the text block stained blue instead of yellow.
Library's copy housed in red cloth clamshell box.
Publisher's dummy of the first edition of Steinbeck's Grapes of wrath, consisting of the first 10 pages of text only, including preliminaries, with the remainder of the textblock comprised of approximately 300 blank unnumbered leaves.
Library's copy housed in red cloth clamshell box.
Publisher's dummy of the first edition of Steinbeck's Grapes of wrath, consisting of the first 10 pages of text only, including preliminaries, with the remainder of the textblock comprised of approximately 300 blank unnumbered leaves.
Description
10 pages, followed by approximately 300 blank unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of William Gilbert Fraize; Carter Burden.
Binding
Original brown cloth.
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