8vo, black and grey cloth boards, orange titles, 536pp. First edition, second state, with ‘Published by the Viking Press September 1953’ to copyright statement, no top stain and H. Wolff listed as printer. Second state dust jacket without Steinbeck ad to rear panel, though no reviews. Price-clipped dust jacket with long closed tear at spine panel, a few chips and spots of loss, short closed tears. Rubbing and toning to cloth, light bumping to corners. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. First regular edition of the winner of the postwar American opus, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A good copy in mylar.