Jan 25, 2007 - Sale 2100

Sale 2100 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 28,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JOHN STEINBECK
Contract signed by Steinbeck assigning the motion picture rights to Grapes of Wrath (1940) to Twentieth Century Fox. April 24, 1939.
2 pages, front and back of the same sheet, 8 1/2x14 inches. Minor creases. With the original yellow paper folder.

The black-and-white epic film adaptation of Steinbeck's novel would garner seven Academy Award nominations.