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Published by Covici Friede, [1936, Book Date], New York, 1936
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
No Binding. Condition: Clamshell As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Steinbeck, John. IN DUBIOUS BATTLE. Custom Collector's 'Sculpted' Clamshell Case. New York: Covici-Friede, 1936. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box feature a gilt-stamped spine, an embossed 'sculpted modern design' upper cover inspired by the dustwrapper's vintage illustration. The case is finished inside & out in medium yellow & grey Nuba®. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather. An excellent Collector's Custom Case for Steinbeck's First Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles including many Steinbecks. Book definitely NOT included. Custom Craft available.
First Edition. Spotting on the top edge; very good or better in a dust jacket with considerable staining and repair of the spine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Published by New York: Covici Friede, 1936
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket is in a mylar sleeve and shows heavy wear, tear, chipping and loss. Cover shows minor wear and staining. Contemporary name and inscription of former owner on the front free endpaper. Pages are tanned and clean.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally toned, chipped at the edges and surface, torn almost completely down the back edge of the spine. Yellow buckram with red and black ink, tidemarks on the boards, front board splayed. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, clean internally. Steinbeck's novel about apple farmers in California, the account of "how they turn to open and violent revolt--slowly and doubtfully at first, then heroically and with abandon.".
Published by Covici Friede, 1936
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. IN DUBIOUS BATTLE, Covici Friede, 1936, first edition, a bit of age toning to the fore edge and b.p.e.'s, else a vg+/near fine copy in a just about vg color pictorial dust-wrapper with a small chip to the base of the front dust-wrapper panel, a small fingernail size chip missing from the base of the dust-wrapper spine and a near thumb size piece missing from the upper left corner of the front dust-wrapper panel.
Published by Covici Friede, 1936
Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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.
Published by Covici Friede, 1936
Seller: Green River Books, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Yellow cloth, still quite clean and bright. Minor wear at spine extremities and corners. A rather possessive former owner stamped his name on both free and fixed endpapers, otherwise fine. A bit of soiling at one corner. In a beautiful jacket that has had some professional restoration by Ecllipse paper.
Published by Covici Friede Inc., N. Y., 1936
Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Trade Edition. Hint of dust soil to cloth top edge; very light toning to margins of text pages, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Jacket with moderate soil, most apparent on light yellow back panel; spine a bit darkened; front flap with 2" closed split at fold ends, rear flap with 1" split and a spot of loss at bottom fold end; chips and short closed tears top edge; spine of jacket with two small holes of loss, the largest about 1/4" sq. , and a bit of loss at bottom edge; 2" closed split from spine top edge. In protective mylar wrap. ; Goldenrod cloth lettered in black, ruled in red; top edge stained red; price $2.50 front flap. Goldstone & Payne A5b. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 349 pages; Steinbeck's novel about a strike of migratory apple pickers and the attempts of communists to organize them. A realistic presentation of partisan passions crushing men of good will.
Published by Covici Friede Inc., C2a, 1936
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Covici, Freide, New York. 1936. 349 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ with price 2.50 has some shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (light chipping present to the crown of the DJ spine). Bound in yellow cloth with black titles present to the spine and red line decorations present to the spine and boards. Boards lightly rubbed and worn with light soil present to the spine. Bookplate present to the front pastedown, name present to the FFEP. Text is free of marks, binding tight and solid. At once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young man's struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, where a strike by migrant workers against rapacious landowners spirals out of control, as a principled defiance metamorphoses into blind fanaticism. Caught in the upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who find himself in the course of the strike, briefly becomes its leader, and is ultimately crushed in its service. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 350 pages.
Published by Covici Friede, New York, 1936
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Author's classic novel of labor and social change. Author Louis Paul's copy with his bookplate at front pastedown. "The migratory workers of California's apple country, the story of how they turn to open and violent revolt. Steinbeck's strike is an upsurge of the basic humanity, of the common denominators of hope and desire." Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at top spine end, piece of scotch tape to exterior of top spine end.
Published by Covici Friede Publishers, 1936
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Trade Edition. Goldstone A5b. A Near Fine copy with no particular faults in goldenrod cloth stamped in black with red horizontal rules, reddish brown topstain, in an original, unrestored Very Good dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with the usual toning to the spine panel, tiny wear to spine-ends, and reinforcement to front spinefold joint. No foxing, soiling, writing or staining. Gutters mildly offset. Text and endpapers clean. 349pp. Steinbeck's labor novel, about a strike in the midst of Depression Era California. Q09736.
Published by Covici Friede Inc., NY, 1936
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Orange/yellow cloth lined in red, titled in black; slightly faded red topstain. First edition. Board corners mildly frayed. Backstrip a bit softened. Page following full title page has a tear along gutter, from the top nearly halfway down. Pages lightly toned, with a very occasional faint spot. The DJ in mylar with $2.50 flap price intact has a darkened spine and professional restoration. Publisher's book release pamphlet laid in. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by Covici Friede, New York, 1936
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor archival reinforcement to verso of jacket. Jacket bright, with only minor chipping and small tears, wear to folds. Book very good or better, without signatures or bookplates.
Published by Covici Friede, NY, 1936
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A bright, tight first edition. A slight darkening of upper edge of boards; pages are clean and snugly bound. DJ is lightly ruffled along edges; original price of $2.50 is penciled through with $1.00 written below; top edge has been reinforced with tape at some earlier date; at present, the book is protected in Brodart; illustration is sharp and colorful.
Published by Covici-Friede, New York, 1936
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A spectacular copy. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth and appears UNREAD. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A fabulous copy with a beautiful facsimile dustjacket from the original housed in a custom clamshell slipcase.
First Edition. Signed by the author in 1936; signature a little blotted; a good copy in a worn and mended dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Published by Covici Friede, New York, 1936
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing. Book is as new. Publisher's flyer with reviews laid in. Dustjacket has original $2.50 price on front flap. Dustjacket spine has very slight age toning and light edgewear to top of spine area. An excellent copy. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A fine first edition in a very good dust jacket. Octavo (8" x 5 3/8"); 349pp. Publisher's tangerine-colored cloth, the spine ruled in red and titled in black, the top edge stained red; in the original, completely unrestored pictorial dust jacket, priced at $2.50 [Goldstone & Payne A5b]. The first novel in the author's 'Dust Bowl Trilogy' that also included Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. The central figure of this novel is an activist for "the Party" (possibly the American Communist Party or the Industrial Workers of the World, although it is never specifically named in the novel) who is organizing a major strike by fruit pickers, seeking followers for his cause. GP A5B. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
Published by Covici-Friede Publishers, New York, 1936
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Signed limited first edition of this "dramatically intense, beautifully written novel" (The New Republic); the first book in Steinbeck's Dustbowl trilogy, which was followed by Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, number 39 of 99 examples. Octavo, original half morocco. Signed by John Steinbeck. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. On publication, New York Times reviewer Fred T. March compared it to the "genial gusto" of the "picaresque" Tortilla Flat. He commented that "You would never know that In Dubious Battle was by the same John Steinbeck if the publishers did not tell you so." He called it "courageous and desperately honest," "the best labor and strike novel to come out of our contemporary economic and social unrest," and "such a novel as Sinclair Lewis at his best might have done had he gone on with his projected labor novel.".
Published by Covici Friede, New York, 1936
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
349 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in glassine wrapper and publisher's slipcase. First edition; No. 52 of 99 copies, signed by John Steinbeck. A fine copy. The glassine wrapper has some chipping to edges and a dime-sized hole to the center of the spine. The slipcase printed paper label is bright. The slipcase is complete but has some wear to the top which has resulted in some narrow areas of missing paper.
Published by Covici Friede, New York, 1936
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Full Description: STEINBECK, John. In Dubious Battle. New York: Covici Friede, [1936]. First edition, one of ninety-nine copies signed by the author of which this is number 57. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 205 x 137 mm). 349, [3, blank] pp. With the signed limitation page inserted at rear. Original black cloth over grey buckram boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge dyed red. Some minor rubbing to bottom of spine. Previous owner's ink inscription dated 1940 on half-title. In the original black paper slipcase with paper spine label. Some very minor rubbing to slipcase. A bright, fine copy. Goldstone & Payne A5a. HBS 69028. $6,500.
Published by Covici-Friede, New York, 1936
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First printing. An attractive dustjacket that is rich in color with light wear to the spine and panels. This original dustjacket has the publisher's printed price present on the front flap. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight with light wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy in collector's condition.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Near fine signed first limited edition as stated on colophon. Signed by John Steinbeck on colophon. Number 53 of 99 signed copies. Very light shelf wear. Light tanning between boards and endpapers. Slightly spine-cocked. Housed in slipcase.