Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
John Steinbeck. In Dubious Battle. Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., 1936.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Orange cloth boards with wear and soil. Foxing to margins of rear board. Spine with sun, soft reading creases. Spine tips with edge wear, soft creasing, tiny tearing. Corners rubbed, cloth worn. Foxing and soil to endpapers. Tanning throughout. No dj. Shelf 10d.
Seller: Friends of Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
John Steinbeck. In Dubious Battle. Blue Ribbon Books, NY, 1936.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition of this reprint that came out at the same time as the First Edition. No jacket. Orange boards are beautiful. Spine is straight, legible, and has only a whisper of sunning. Boards are very very clean. Interior is pristine with the exception of previous owner's signature.
Seller: Cream Petal Goods, New Paltz, NY, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John.. In Dubious Battle.. Blue Ribbon Books., New York., 1936.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: weight: 1.3 lb. Very good, slightly cocked, bump to top edge of cover, ink name to ffep. 20.5x14 cm. 349 pp. Orange cloth, gilt spine title, top edge stained orange.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John.. In Dubious Battle.. Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1936.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: No statement of printing. About Fine in orange cloth, orange topstain, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. 349pp. Q19338
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
John Steinbeck. In Dubious Battle. Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1936.
Price: US$188.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue Ribbon reprint same year as first edition. Orange boards, dulled gilt printing on spine. Boards clean, corners lightly rubbed. Spine ends bumped. mild rubbing along spine edges. Pages clean, toned. Book tight and square.
Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
STEINBECK, John. In Dubious Battle. Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1936.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 349pp. A very good copy, gently cocked, with a contmporary gift inscription on the front free endpaper. In the scarce dust jacket, good or better, split nearly halfway at the front flap and with some chipping at the extremities. This is what you might call a "first edition thus," being the first Blue Ribbon edition, although the true first edition was published by Covici-Friede earlier the same year. Though Blue RIbbon is a well-known reprint publisher, this volume seems to have become collectible in the dust jacket, which has a wonderful illustration on the front panel depicting a thoroughly Steinbeck-ian gathering of disgruntled workers, whose plight is the thrust of this under-appreciated novel.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.