STEINBECK, JOHN. The Grapes of Wrath. New York, 1939. 8vo, orginal tan cloth printed in blue on spine and front cover, top edges stained blue; spine slightly darkened with small stain. ADVANCE SALESMAN'S DUMMY COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, consisting of the preliminary leaves and the first 10 pages of the text with the rest of the leaves blank. Not noted in Goldstone & Payne.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. The Grapes of Wrath. New York, 1939. 8vo, orginal tan cloth printed in blue on spine and front cover, top edges stained blue; spine slightly darkened with small stain. ADVANCE SALESMAN'S DUMMY COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, consisting of the preliminary leaves and the first 10 pages of the text with the rest of the leaves blank. Not noted in Goldstone & Payne.

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This advance dummy varies significantly from the final published edition. It is bound in tan non-pictorial cloth printed in blue on spine and front cover, with top edges stained blue (instead of yellow), the typeface used on the title and half-title is different than in the final published version, and the copyright page is blank in this copy.

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