Sinclair Upton Fletcher Martin (26 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in slipcase. Illus. by Fletcher Martin (illustrator). reprint. Small 4to, 334 pp., Sandglass newsletter laid-in. With a new preface by the author.

Faux Leather. Condition: Fine. Fletcher Martin (illustrator). Original owner's ink-stamped name on the front endpaper, elsewise a FINE, like-new, bright, clean, tight copy sans flaws in like publisher's original-issue slipcase. Classic book greatly enhanced in/by the full page, full color and smaller black and white illustrations of noted artist Fletcher Martin. Brown faux-leather boards with gold gilt lettering on the spine. 334 pages. Book retains the Heritage Club's original-issue 4-page 'Sandglass' pamphlet on the book. GE4.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by MARTIN, FLETCHER Color Ilust (illustrator). HARDCOVER. VERY GOOD CONDITION.IN VERY NICE GLOSSY DARK BROWN LINE EMBOSSED HARD COVERS. VERY NICE ORIGIANAL TAN BOX SLIPCASE ; Dec Hardcovers.GOLD titles on DARK RED hardcovers. Interlocking maze type rectangles cover design; 334pg pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fletcher Martin (illustrator). Heritage Press Edition. The Heritage edition in the groovy puzzle cloth-covered boards, with the Sand Glass notice laid in, in slipcase Fine.

BROWN LEATHERETTE BINDING. Condition: VG. FLETCHER MARTIN (illustrator). RE ISSUE. WITH SLIPCASE.

Slipcased Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. Martin, Fletcher (illustrator). This book is in good plus condition with tight binding and clean text. There is slight odor to the book. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Martin, Fletcher (illustrator). Brown leather with imprinted mazed. Gilt lettering on spine. End papers are turning light brown due to old glue. Frontispiece: Full page drawing in color. Ten-pages in color. Drawing in black/white. Binding is tight. Corners are sharp. Some rubbing at bottom edge of covers. Black edge at front upper corner of cover. 334 p.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Fletcher Martin (illustrator). Preface by the author. "Sandglass" laid in. A reprint edition. The brickwork pattern covered boards variant. Slightly faded along the spine, else very good in a very good slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Fletcher Martin (illustrator). Preface by the author. "Sandglass" laid in. A reprint edition. The leatherette binding variant. From a smoker's library - light tobacco odor, else near fine in a very good (age toning) slipcase.

Hardcover. 334pp, leather cover, boxed Very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight / very good plus box.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. FLETCHER MARTIN (illustrator). This is a mint-condition copy of The Jungle, the 1906 novel by the American journalist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). Sinclair worked under cover in Chicago's Union Stock Yards with the goal of exposing corruption in the meat-packing industry and the plight of the working poor. The book caused a sensation by exposing unsanitary practices; the result was legislation such as the Meat Inspection Act. This is a Heritage Press copy, printed in 1965. It is a beautiful book--beige cloth boards, best-quality paper and lots of illustrations by the American artist (Fletcher Martin 1904-1979). 7" x 11" and 334 pages. It comes in a hard slipcase which is discolored from sun exposure. The book's original owner (a Canadian diplomat) signed the front endpaper. Other than that, there's not a mark in it or on it. It's in perfect condition.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Cracking to head and tail of spine. Boards show paper loss. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Page edges gilt. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Martin Fletcher (illustrator). Easton Press. Norwalk, CT: 1981. Fine. Collector's Edition. Color and B&W illustrations by Martin Fletcher. The book is tight with solid hinges, good corners, and clean, unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in leather with raised bands to the spine, 22 kt accents, gilded pages, silk moiré endpapers, hubbed spine, and a sewn-in satin bookmark. 334 pages. 7 x 10½" tall. New preface by the author. The 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair exposes the brutal conditions of the Chicago meatpacking industry and the exploitation of immigrant workers. Intended to promote socialism, the book instead shocked the public with its graphic descriptions of unsanitary food production, leading directly to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act of 1906, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fletcher Martin (illustrator). Faux leather brown cover with brick-like pattern. Original slipcase in VG+ condition. Publisher's "Sandglass" pamphlet laid-in.

Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Fletcher Martin (illustrator). Collector's Edition. Red leather. Beautiful leather bindings with gilt decorations accented by 22kt gold All edges gilt, satin ribbon marker, silk moire endpapers and three raised spine bands. This is from the out of print collection called Masterpieces of American Literature. Bookplate of former owner centered on verso of front free endpaper. No other imperfections. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Martin, Fletcher (illustrator). In red leather. Small white mark to bottom page edges. Bookplate.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Fletcher Martin (illustrator). Collector's Edition, full leather binding with elaborate gilt decoration on covers and spine. All edge gilt, silk end papers and nicely printed with clean, bright interior. A lovely edition not to be confused with the faux leather or cloth editions. ; Collector's Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 334 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. FLETCHER MARTIN (illustrator). 1st Edition. THIS IS THE 1965 "HERITAGE PRESS" PRINTING OF UPTON SINCLAIR'S BEST SELLING NOVEL, "THE JUNGLE."' THE BOOK HAS A NEW PREFACE BY UPTON SINCLAIR. THE BOOK IN IN A SLIP CASE THAT IS IN A FINE CONDITION. "THE JUNGLE" IS ILLUSTRATED BY FLETCHER MARTIN. THE BOOK IS A SPECIAL EDITION BY "THE GORGE MACY COMPANIES, INC. SPECIAL PRODUCTION. " THE NEW PREFACE BY UPTON SINCLAIR DESCRIBES THE WRITING EVOLUTION OF "THE JUNGLE" IN DETAIL.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Fletcher Martin (illustrator). Includes Sandglass newsletter that came. With a new Preface by the author. The book is in fine, pristine and unread condition. Includes Sandglass newsletter that came with each Heritage press edition.The slipcase has a small smudge. Inventory #000946.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Fletcher Martin (illustrator). 1st Edition. 334pp. Chocolate brown maze designed boards. Vertical scuff running halfway down the spine edge,otherwise a near fine copy. . Color frontispiece. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a 1906 novel that follows Lithuanian immigrants Jurgis Rudkus and his family as they chase the American Dream in Chicago's meatpacking district, only to be crushed by horrific working conditions, poverty, and corruption. The family is subjected to unsafe housing, exploitative labor practices, physical injuries, and family deaths, leading Jurgis to eventually embrace socialism as the only viable solution to the injustices of capitalism. The book's graphic descriptions of unsanitary meatpacking practices generated public outrage and led to real-world reforms like the Meat Inspection Act. Book includes a biography pamphlet about the author. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Octavo. 334 pp. David Gentleman [illustrator]. With and introduction by Bonomy Dobree. Bound in saddle brown faux-leather hardcover with blind embossed geometric maze design on front and back covers; bright gilt title and author on spine in tan slipcase. New seven [7] page preface by the author. Abundant full-color and black-and-white illustrations by renown American artist Fletcher Martin. Laid in Sandglass leaflet printed by the publisher. Fine in a Near Fine beige cardboard slipcase.

Full-Leather; Raised Bands. Condition: Near Fine. Fletcher Martin (illustrator). This work was begun in the year 1904 and published serially in the following year. It appeared in a weekly four-page paper, "The Appeal to Reason," a hard-fighting organ of the Socialist movement. There had been a strike of some twenty thousand workers in the meat-packing plants of Chicago because of the mistreatment of packing-plant workers. This author went to Chicago to take notes and gathered information for his articles and this novel. Illustrations are included. Bound in Full leather with raised bands; gilt lettering and decoration; satin ribbon marker and endpapers. This copy is clean and solid.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Martin, Fletcher (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by author and illustrator on the rear limitation page. A truly lovely copy in a slipcase that has some light spotting on the top edge. Limited edition Club monthly letter laid in. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Limited Edition, one of 1500 hand-numbered copies (this being No. 1035) SIGNED by author Upton Sinclair and illustrator Fletcher Martin. Backstrip lightly faded, else Fine and unread, bound in brown quarter-leather. Housed in an about Fine paper slipcase with only a hint of toning to the title label on the spine to note. Signed.

Hardcover. Fletcher Martin (illustrator). First Illustrated Edition. Tall octavo (7" x 10-7/8") bound appropriately in embossed quarter pigskin and butcher paper sides; 384 pages. The First Illustrated Edition of this modern classic with a new preface by the author. Copy #751 of 1500 with 12 full-color wash-and-ink drawings, 8 full-page and 4 two-page spreads, and 33 two-color line drawings by Fletcher Martin. SIGNED by both the artist and the author on the colophon page. An affordable way to acquire a signed copy of this important book, now somewhat uncommon in this condition. Sinclair's powerful exposure of the Chicago meat-packing industry is still a staple on the menus of many high school reading lists. His account of the social and human abuses of the yards, where packers used "everything about the hog except the squeal," led to major reforms in the industry and, along with UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, is one of the few American novels to have a lasting impact on the way we live our lives. Indeed, when this book was published Jack London said, "What Uncle Tom's Cabin did for black slaves, The Jungle has a large chance to do for the white slaves of today." President Theodore Roosevelt was so shocked by what he read that he made sure a clean meat act, the Pure Food and Drug Bill, was signed into law, popularizing at the time the rather obscure term "muckraker." Later in life, Sinclair said of his masterpiece: "I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach." A few dark stains to the spine. Very Good in a Near Fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Fletcher Martin (illustrator). First Illustrated Edition. Tall octavo (7" x 10-7/8") bound appropriately in embossed quarter pigskin and butcher paper sides; 384 pages. The First Illustrated Edition of this modern classic with a new preface by the author. Copy #887 of 1500 with 12 full-color wash-and-ink drawings, 8 full-page and 4 two-page spreads, and 33 two-color line drawings by Fletcher Martin. SIGNED by both the artist and the author on the colophon page. An affordable way to acquire a signed copy of this important book, now somewhat uncommon in this condition. Sinclair's powerful exposure of the Chicago meat-packing industry is still a staple on the menus of many high school reading lists. His account of the social and human abuses of the yards, where packers used "everything about the hog except the squeal," led to major reforms in the industry and, along with UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, is one of the few American novels to have a lasting impact on the way we live our lives. Indeed, when this book was published Jack London said, "What Uncle Tom's Cabin did for black slaves, The Jungle has a large chance to do for the white slaves of today." President Theodore Roosevelt was so shocked by what he read that he made sure a clean meat act, the Pure Food and Drug Bill, was signed into law, popularizing at the time the rather obscure term "muckraker." Later in life, Sinclair said of his masterpiece: "I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach." Bookplate on the front pastedown. Close to Fine in a Near Fine slipcase.