In Dubious Battle
The Modern Library, 1939. 8vo, grey cloth, blue and black titles stamped in blind, plain endpapers, blue grey topstain, 343pp. Stated First Modern Library edition, 1939. Dust jacket with 95 cent price to rear panel mildly rubbed to panels, small closed tear to top edge of front panel, mild toning to rear. Discreet ownership marking to front endpaper, faint pencil marking to rear, endpapers rubbed. Contents clean, binding firm. Scarce first ML edition of Steinbeck’s original 1936 novel of a fruit laborer’s struggle in depression era California, title taken from Paradise Lost. Toledano binding style 8, dust jacket style g, 268 titles listed to reverse. Modern Library 115. A very good copy in an unusually nice dust jacket in mylar. Fine / Near Fine.
Price: $150.00