By Gabriela Resto-Montero
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
UPPER EAST SIDE — An uncorrected proof of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," which calls the classic "The Gropes of Wrath" and misspells the author's name, is among the items from Steinbeck's Upper East Side home that will be auctioned off next week.
The sale of Steinbeck's personal effects, including Steinbeck's typeset copy of his 1962 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, is expected to net between $200,000 and $250,000 for Bloomsbury Auctions on June 23, the Associated Press reported.
"What makes the material attractive is it's a very nice snapshot, small and large, of Steinbeck, particularly postwar," said John Larson, Bloomsbury's book specialist, to the AP.
The sale will also offer never-published works like a retelling of Don Quixote and a screenplay titled Viking, which Steinbeck had hoped Ingrid Bergman would star in.
Steinbeck reportedly lived on the Upper East Side with his wife, Elaine, for 13 years until his death in 1968.
During his lifetime, the California-native published 27 novels, including the classics, The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men and East of Eden.
