IN DUBIOUS BATTLE

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Youngman Carter illustrated dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents with a few spots to the top edge of the closed text block are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper, which has a few short closed tears to the head of the spine and is otherwise bright and free from fading or loss. Not price-clipped (7/6 net to the front flap).

Steinbeck's fourth novel, which is set during a strike on a Californian farm. The basis for the 2016 film of the same name, directed by and starring James Franco, alongside Nat Wolff and Vincent D'Onofrio. (Goldstone & Payne A5c.)