(According to SP, Steinbeck’s agent also required him remove a dozen instances of the f-word.) With this edition, readers can examine Steinbeck’s minuscule-and astonishingly neat-handwriting, as well as his first wife Carol’s proofreading marks. Barrie’s Peter Pan & Wendy, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The Paris-based independent publisher has become well-known in recent years for similar facsimile editions of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, J. Its publisher, SP Books, has produced an exact replica of the only known manuscript of the quintessential Great Depression novel, kept at the University of Virginia’s Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature. Today is publication day for a limited edition manuscript facsimile of John Steinbeck’s National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner, The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
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