Meg Randall
first edition
1942 · New York
by GRAPEWIN, CHARLES
New York: Liveright, 1942. First Edition. Near fine slightly used copy in a very good lightly dust soiled dust jacket with a few tiny chips and tears and a faint vertical crease to the spine. A dramatic novel with elements of romance and high finance. Charles Grapewin (1869 - 1956) began his career as an aerialist and trapeze artist before he turned to acting, first on the stage, and then in motion pictures. He gained popularity in his later years, appearing in memorable roles in such films as The Petrified Forest (1936) with Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart, The Good Earth (1937) with Paul Muniand Luise Rainer, and They Died with Their Boots On (1941) with Errol Flynn. However, his best remembered roles were as Dorothy’s loveable Uncle Henry in the classic The Wizard of Oz (1939), the disgruntled Grandpa Joad, who refused to leave the homestead, in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), as Inspector Queen in the Ellery Queen whodunits that ran from 1940 through 1942, and as the amiable ne'er-do-well Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road (1941). (Inventory #: 16085E)