Makes me want to dig out my older books.
Steinbeck first edition sells for $47,800 US
A rare first edition of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath sold at auction Sunday in Los Angeles for $47,800 US.
A collection of first-edition copies of Steinbeck works, originally owned by his sister, Elizabeth Steinbeck Ainsworth, who died in 1992, was sold at Bonhams & Butterfields auction house.
The Grapes of Wrath, his tale of a family struggling through Depression-era poverty, received the highest bid in the auction, which raised $200,000 US for the family.
Bonhams said the price for The Grapes of Wrath may be a record for the sale of a Steinbeck work.