The Grapes of Wrath.

Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries. Due to their nearly hopeless situation and in part because they were trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California. Along with thousands of other 'Okie', they sought jobs, land, dignity, and a future. Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1940 for this novel.

First edition, first impression; 8vo (20 x 14 cm); very occasional spot or mark to margins, otherwise near-fine internal condition; modern full blue morocco, one-line gilt-panelled back by Bayntun Riviere, gilt dentelles, cockerel endpapers, all edges gilt, very mild age toning, otherwise a handsome, finely-bound first edition; [vi], 619pp, [3]pp.