In Dubious Battle
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus/Very Good
- Seller
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Sacramento, California, United States
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About This Item
Covici Friede, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good plus/Very Good. Very good plus with minor soiling to boards and slight shelfwear, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good dust jacket (price clipped) with a bit of chipping at spine ends and corners. An attractive copy of Steinbeck's fourth book.
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
- Magus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8118
- Title
- In Dubious Battle
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Covici Friede
- Date Published
- 1936
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Magus Books
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Sacramento, California
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...