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STEINBECK, John (1902–1968). In Dubious Battle. New York: Covici–Friede, [1936].
8vo. Original yellowish-orange cloth stamped in red, top edge stained red; original dust jacket (spine sunned, some tiny chips at ends and corners, some separation at front fold).
FIRST TRADE EDITION. Steinbeck’s novel about striking migrant apple pickers “accomplishes in a strike novel what no writer has been able to accomplish before him: he dramatizes scenes from the front-line trenches of economic warfare in the essential terms of humanity” (jacket blurb). It was the basis for the 2016 film of the same name starring James Franco who also directed. Goldstone & Payne A5b.