Fitch Clarke Pseud Upton Sinclair (5 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} Blue cloth covered boards with light soiling and spotting. Worn at ridges. Also top & bottom of spine., Darkened textblock edges. Darker still along top edge. [250 pages].

Reprint. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, yellow, blue, and green; [4],ii,[7]-250,vpp.; frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped, some light soiling, spine cloth a bit dulled, else Very Good and sound. Slightly later (1928) gift inscription to front free endpaper. One of Sinclair's early pseudonymously published juvenalia, forming part of a series of maritime adventure stories for boys featuring Clif Faraday, Naval Cadet from Annapolis. The pseudonym Ensign Clarke Fitch was used by at least three authors, including Sinclair, Enrique H. Lewis, and Weldon J. Cobb (see J. Randolph Cox, The Dime Novel Companion (2000), p. 12). OCLC locates 7 copies as of November, 2016.…

Reprint Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, yellow, blue, and green; [6],ii,[7],281,[1],[32](ads)pp.; frontispiece. Extremities a bit rubbed and worn, general dust-soil, spine rather dulled with some fraying at ends, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. OCLC locates 7 copies as of November, 2016, calling for only 8pp. of publisher's advertisements in rear.…

First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original blue-green pictorial cloth stamped in tan, blue, and green, gilt-lettered spine with "Federal Book Co." imprint at foot; [6],ii,[7]-269,[1],[27](ads)pp.; frontispiece. Very light shelf wear, corners slightly bumped, spine a bit toned, some minor soiling, else a Very Good or better, rather superlative copy of an elusive early Sinclair juvenile. Forms part of the series of juvenile adventure books about American Naval Cadet Clif Faraday, authored by Sinclair and at least two others all writing under the pseudonym Clarke Fitch. OCLC locates 6 copies as of November, 2016.…

First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's grey pictorial cloth stamped in tan, green, and blue, gilt-lettered spine; [6],ii,[7]-268pp.; frontispiece. Cloth extremities a bit rubbed, some spotting and minor discoloration, spine rather toned, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front free endpaper, else contents near fine. About Very Good overall. Sinclair's fifth published novel, forming part of a series of maritime adventure stories for boys featuring Clif Faraday, Naval Cadet from Annapolis. 6 copies in OCLC as of November, 2016. …