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First trade edition, first printing. Octavo. Original orange cloth printed in black and red, top edge red. With dust jacket. Boards a little spotted, top edge faintly faded and with a few spots, endpapers lightly foxed. A very good copy in a slightly edge-chipped jacket with a toned spine panel and tape repairs to the verso. .

In Dubious Battle is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in 1936, that tells the story of a fruit worker's strike in California which is both orchestrated and led in part by the novel's protagonist, who is involved in the labor movement.