First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have-nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision. Wheatfield, tree, and smallholding woodcut etching in gold on tan and red sky dyed leather is the striking cover design of this Franklin Library, 1988 edition. Hardcover leather bound, 424 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. With gilt decorations and patterns to front and rear panels. All page edges gilt. Spine with 2 raised bands, gilt lettering and gilt patterns. Pink moiré (silk textures) endpapers. Pink tissue page-marker ribbon. EPHEMERA : Signed letter by Joseph Sloves, publisher of The Franklin Library, on the launch of publication.
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