Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stapled wraps shows wear and discoloration, unmarked. Subscription form laid in.
Seller: North Country Books, Milton, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 30 pp. 8vo, original printed wrappers. First edition. Wrappers faded with light edgewear and a couple of dampstains. Subscription form at rear.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Description: 30 pages. Also includes: Did Shakespeare translate The Decameron by Carter Meredith and Mr. Grahame; Mr. Roosevelt, and I by A. A. Milne. Typed letter signed by George Macy, on The Limited Editions Club letterhead, dated April 23, 1940, addressed to Mr. William A. P. White. Letter informs White of the booklet publication and offers him subscriptions to The Wind in the Willows, The Decameron and The grapes of Wrath, with details re each book. About 275 words. A near fine copy in orange wrappers of booklet. With subscription form. William A. P. White (1911-1968) may be better known by his pseudonym Anthony Boucher.
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Wrappers, nice.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: [15] pp. Includes a tipped-in illustrated inserts for all three books (the Rackham in color). Folio, publisher's gray wrappers lettered in red. First edition. Beginning to separate at the rear inner hinge; slight use to wrappers.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: Two volume set in slipcase. 26.5 x 19 cm. 559pp. Bound by Russell-Rutter Company in rawhide leather spine with "grass cloth" covers. Illustrated with lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton. Limited to 1146 sets of which is is set # 1058 signed by Benton in volume 2. Illustrated endpapers. Laid in is a page "About the Binding of this book". The rawhide portion of the spine is partially discolored to white. Slipcase with a bit of edgewear. Very Good in Very Good slipcase
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Illustrated edition of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Illustrated and signed by Thomas Hart Benton. One of 1146 copies, each individually numbered. Missing the original publisher's slipcase. Bound in quarter rawhide and grass cloth. Laid in is a single sheet from the publisher "About the Binding of this Book" Illustrated endpapers by Benton. One of the most desirable titles from the Limited Editions Club, illustrated by one the the great 20th century American artists - Thomas Hart Benton and signed by him on the colophon page at the end of volume two. A nice clean set with no bookplates or writing. The grass cloth covers are prone to wear, but this set show little to no wear whatsoever.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.
Price: US$863.00 + shipping
Description: Two octavo volumes. xxii, 559 pp. numbered consecutively. One of 1146 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated throughout with two-color zinc lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton. With an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson, then literary editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. In the publisher's binding of rawhide-backed grass cloth, with crest illustration to all four covers. According to the publisher, the binding was intended to impart to the reader "an emotional sympathy" for the novel. "The 'grass cloth' should, if the intention of the designer is realized, put the prospective reader in mind of the the parched, sun-baked grass of the Dust Bowl. . . . And rawhide was planned for the backs of the volumes because it is a leather which might very well have come from an Oklahoma steer." According to the LEC, these volumes represent the first time rawhide was ever used comercially to bind a book. Spine show slight sunning, and some natural color variation, else about fine. Housed in publisher's slipcase, which shows a couple of spots of light dampstaining, and minor chipping to the fore-edges. Title printed on slipcase spine. A fine copy of one of the LEC's smaller limitations, a book that infrequently appears in fine condition because of the nature of the binding. Publisher's note laid in.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John & Benton, Thomas Hart. THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Limited Editions Club, 1940.
Price: US$1840.30 + shipping
Description: THE GRAPES OF WRATH, Limited Editions Club, 1940, first edition thus, 2 volumes, multi hued rawhide spines, very fine in near fine publishers cardboard slipcase with some wear to the head of the box above the spine of the book. Laid in is a single sheet from the publisher entitled "About the Binding of this Book." 1/1,146 copies, SIGNED by the illustrator, Thomas Hart Benton.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.