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In Dubious Battle
by STEINBECK, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good/good +
- Seller
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Rocky River, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1936. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good/good +. Octavo, 349pp. A very good copy, gently cocked, with a contmporary gift inscription on the front free endpaper. In the scarce dust jacket, good or better, split nearly halfway at the front flap and with some chipping at the extremities. This is what you might call a "first edition thus," being the first Blue Ribbon edition, although the true first edition was published by Covici-Friede earlier the same year. Though Blue RIbbon is a well-known reprint publisher, this volume seems to have become collectible in the dust jacket, which has a wonderful illustration on the front panel depicting a thoroughly Steinbeck-ian gathering of disgruntled workers, whose plight is the thrust of this under-appreciated novel.
Synopsis
In Dubious Battle is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in 1936. The central figure of the story is an activist for "the Party" (the American Communist Party, although it is never specifically named in the novel) who is organizing a major strike by the workers, seeking thus to attract followers to his cause. In Steinbeck's obituary, the New York Times said that "Although the writer's sympathies were clearly with the strikers...
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cleveland Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4284
- Title
- In Dubious Battle
- Author
- STEINBECK, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Blue Ribbon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Radical literature, Left-wing, Tortilla Flat, The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, California, Salinas
Terms of Sale
Cleveland Book Company
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About the Seller
Cleveland Book Company
Biblio member since 2017
Rocky River, Ohio
About Cleveland Book Company
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As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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