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SINCLAIR, Upton (1878-1968). The Jungle. New York: The Jungle Publishing, 1906.
8o. Original olive green pictorial cloth (spine a bit cocked).
FIRST EDITION, first state. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY SINCLAIR on front free endpaper: "'Where savage beasts through forest midnight roam, seeeking in sorrow for each other's joy' The Journal Arthur Sterling Upton Sinclair."
[With]:
SINCLAIR, Upton. The Jungle. New York: The Jungle Publishing, 1906.
8o. Bright red pictorial cloth.
FIRST EDITION, "souvenir issue," an unrecorded variant, according to an inserted letter on Appeal To Reason letterhead, one of 100 copies specially bound and distributed at the time of publication to members of the Socialist Party.
The Jungle is one of a select group of novels whose impact transcended their literary merits. Sinclair's exposé of the primitive, brutal meat packing industry in Chicago single-handedly resulted in the 1906 enactment of the Pure Food and Drug Act. It also earned him an invitation to the White House from Theodore Roosevelt. (2)
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FIRST EDITION, first state. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY SINCLAIR on front free endpaper: "'Where savage beasts through forest midnight roam, seeeking in sorrow for each other's joy' The Journal Arthur Sterling Upton Sinclair."
[With]:
SINCLAIR, Upton. The Jungle. New York: The Jungle Publishing, 1906.
8
FIRST EDITION, "souvenir issue," an unrecorded variant, according to an inserted letter on Appeal To Reason letterhead, one of 100 copies specially bound and distributed at the time of publication to members of the Socialist Party.
The Jungle is one of a select group of novels whose impact transcended their literary merits. Sinclair's exposé of the primitive, brutal meat packing industry in Chicago single-handedly resulted in the 1906 enactment of the Pure Food and Drug Act. It also earned him an invitation to the White House from Theodore Roosevelt. (2)