The Grapes of Wrath (Viking, 1939)

Elmer Hader painted the jacket for Viking's April 1939 first edition: a farmer in overalls, his wife and a boy watching a line of loaded jalopies crawl across a pale valley toward blue mountains. It is the Joad family's road west reduced to one quiet watercolor, with none of the anger of the text…

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