STEINBECK (John). - Lot 166

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STEINBECK (John). - Lot 166
STEINBECK (John). The Grapes of Wrath. Translation by Karin de Hatker. Final French text by Albert Debaty. Brux, Les Éditions de Kogge, "Messages", [1942], 8° full margins, folding color map between pp. 136 and 137, full publisher's cloth with gold title on upper cover, ownership stamp (spine faded). First edition of the French translation, printed at 375 copies, 1/275 Cartex register paper with large margins, luxuriously bound. This is the very first French translation of "The Grapes of Wrath", a seminal work of American literature that John Steinbeck composed, driven by anger and indignation, between May and December 1938 and which was published by Viking Press in New York in April 1939. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. This translation is much earlier than the one by Maurice Coindreau and Marcel Duhamel for Gallimard in 1947. The book, which shows the misery of small farmers in the United States during the depression, was published as part of anti-American propaganda with the approval of the German censors.
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