Why Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath by Joseph Henry Jackson 1940
Why Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath - By Joseph Henry Jackson.
of the San Francisco Chronicle
and Other Essays
Did Shakespeare translate The Decameron? - By CARTER MEREDITH.
Mr. Grahame, Mr. Roosevelt, and I - By A. A. MILNE.
(Number 1 of A New Series, Booklets for Bookmen, from The Limited Editions Club,
New York, 1940.)
Americana - Literature
Vintage from the 1940s
Black & white (halftone or line) reproductions of LEC illustrations by Thomas Hart Benton (Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath), Fritz Kredel (Boccaccio: Decameron), Arthur Rackham (Grahame: Wind in the Willows). The A. A. Milne Essay: "Mr. Grahame, Mr. Roosevelt, and I", regards Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" (1908), and Theodore Roosevelt, and prints the text of the TR letter to Kenneth Grahame.
Orange cover with black title and artistic border art. Soil rubbed cover with some edge wear, and a secure binding and clean pages. About 9-3/16 x 6-1/8 with 30 pages. Illustrated.