First printing of the first trade edition (after the "Sustainters' edition). Has the following first edition points: complete/unbroken "1" on the copyright page; "Brass Buttons" on page 42; "eight dollars" on page 82; and normal sized "3" on page 385. Moderate wear to the boards with some rubbing and discoloration. Sound binding. Previous owner's name inscribed on the front end page; rest of the interior pages are clean and unmarked.
An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle -- his devastating expos? of the meat-packing industry. A protest novel he privately published in 1906, the book was a shocking revelation of intolerable labor...