8vo. Original yellow-orange cloth stamped in red, top edge stained red; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (extremities chipped and soiled, a few short closed tears and creases); folding case.

FIRST TRADE EDITION. Steinbeck’s novel about striking migrant apple pickers “accomplishes in a strike novel what no writer has been able to accomplish before him: he dramatizes scenes from the front-line trenches of economic warfare in the essential terms of humanity” (jacket blurb). Goldstone & Payne A5b.