Upton Sinclair Beall (39 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No spine creases visible. Slight soil look to outside of page edges. Minor corner wear, binding tight and one sticker on spine. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 0553212451. ISBN/EAN: 9780553212457. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560799607.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. Upton Sinclair, master of the muckraking novel, explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the 20th century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of "wage-slavery," the bewildering chaos of urban life. Introduction by Morris Dickstein. Softcover, xvii, 349 pp. Moderate wear, previous owner's name on first page otherwise unmarked, tight binding.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Used book, very good condition, all pages clean. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 0451524209. ISBN/EAN: 9780451524201. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: ABE427708414.

Paperback. Condition: VG. 353pp. Extremities lightly rubbed. Endnotes.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Previous owner information.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a nice clean copy with moderate wear and the dust jacket has light wear and is in a Mylar type protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Here is the 1942 paperback reprint edition of "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, was published by Upton Sinclair himself. This particular copy of the famous novel was in a U. S. Navy Library and has a stamped notice, in blue, which reads "S.I.T. PROPERTY OF U. S. NAVY No. __ " Over this is stamped (in the same blue) VOID. I have determined that the initials S.I.T. stood for Storage In Transit. Aside from this there is, on the same page, the signature in ink of an individual, dated 2/7/47. This individual also initialed the page and added a second rather illegible signature at the top. We've shown this page (see provided picture). The book has seen considerable use and shows that use by the finger smudging on the cover. There is evidence that some mending was done to the cover attachments. The title page and text are clean and free of marking. TITLE : The Jungle AUTHOR : Upton Sinclair (Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. 1878 - 1968) IMPRINT : Upton Sinclair PLACE : Pasadena, CA DATE : 1942 EDITION : Paperback Reprint STATUS : This edition OP - Scarce. I have found no other copies of this edition for sale on line. PROVENANCE : Once part of a U. S. Navy Library (with VOID stamp); thence to a private individual. DETAILS : Trade paperback; 413 pages , plus three pages of publisher's promotional ads; 5" x 7 1/4"; printed gray wraps, glued, with text printed in black; promotional text about "The Jungle" on front and back. No lettering on spine. CONDITION ? GOOD ONLY ? The book has seen considerable use and displays the effects of the use, with the following noted : EXTERIOR - The covers display a good deal of finger smudging, corner creasing, and general moderate weathering; text-block edges are darkened. BINDING - Tender. There is splitting fore and aft at the foot of the spine; there is evidence of mending neatly effected to cover attachment; no leaves are detached or loose. INTERIOR - The aforementioned Navy Library stamp on the recto of the first leaf (with Void also stamped); two inked signatures and one set of initials, plus a date (1947). One signature reads Frederick Alexander Kaiser, SCD 2/7/47. Second signature is Fred --- (illegible); initials are FK/bb - likely the same Frederick Kaiser. The text itself is clean and free of marking.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. First Edition, 1953. No dust jacket. Spine sunned and a tan to the page edges. Minor cracking to front hinge, but binding otherwise solid. Contents clear throughout. A good condition book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is the First Edition of "The Pot Boiler, a Comedy in Four Acts" by Upton Sinclair. Mr. Sinclair originally wrote the play in 1913, and it may have been performed then, but publication in book form did not happen until Haldeman - Julius issued it as Little Blue Book No. 589 in 1924. This is one of the few cases of a major author's book appearing as a First Edition in the series. It's a very good specimen. Upton Sinclair received the Pulitzer Prize for his 1906 novel, "The Jungle". SERIES : Little Blue Books ( No. 589) TITLE : The Pot Boiler, a Comedy in Four Acts AUTHOR : Upton Sinclair (Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. ,1878 - 1968) IMPRINT : E. Haldeman-Julius PLACE : Girard, Kansas DATE : [ Published 1924 ] (©1913) EDITION : First Edition PHYSICAL DETAILS : Petite Paperback; 127 pages (pagination includes title page and eight pages of publisher's list), approximately 3 1/2" x4 15/16""; printed gray wraps, stapled (paper covers with 2 staples) CONDITION -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted: Pocket Series and Little Blue Books were issued using inexpensive materials and thus are almost always found with toned and faded paper. Other small defects such as slightly chipped corners, printer's smudges, and such are common. Any flaws beyond the normal for these will be detailed. Little Blue Books often did not have blue covers - or the blue has faded to gray. Please remember that vintage paper items are more fragile than their modern counterparts, and thus require proper care in handling. THIS COPY : VERY GOOD -- Previously owned. Creasing to rear cover; Overall weathering and fading of color. Title page is considerably toned, and has a small printing - related smudge, else the interior paper is only mildly toned. No writing or marking. Clean and presentable.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. In polypropylene bag. (capitalism, united states, economic conditions, politics and government, working class ) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Franklin Library Limited Edition. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 16.25cm. Full black leather binding; vibrant gilt stamping to spine and both boards; spine additionally decorated with four raised bands. All edges gilt. Salmon-colored silk moire endpapers. Sewn-in salmon-colored silk ribbon page marker. Binding remains quite crisp.

Condition: Nr Fine. Reprint (cf. Ahouse A38a). 64 pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-7/8" "Nineteen letters to a small cog in the American economy: Judd is the prototypical workingman who sees his labor disappear into the system while his earning power and savings decline." [What has changed in the last 92 years?] One of Sinclair's "most widely distributed pamphlets, republished after the EPIC campaign and again after World War II." [Ahouse]. Gray-green printed wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.

Memorial Edition with Preface and Additions (as stated upon title page). SINCLAIR FAMILY ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY SALLY AND HUNTER S. KIMBROUGH (BROTHER OF AUTHOR MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR) TO A NIECE AND HER HUSBAND. [6], 407, [408-422] pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed, several short tears with some nicks and creasing at edges, small chip at front panel's top right, slight sunning to spine, very faint staining at lower spine and adjacent panel corners, light foxing evident to white area of lower front panel and to white front and rear flaps; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Blue cloth; several spots of brown discoloration to rear board and slightly faded spine. Light toning to top edge; light foxing/toning to endpapers. Front free endpaper features two distinct inscriptions within five lines: "To Cunliffe + Sara Bailey McBee | from Sally + Hunter S. Kimbrough | In one way or another we're all | mixed up in it, one way or another! | HSK." The first two lines reflect a different handwriting style than the bottom three so it seems likely that the former was written Sally Kimbrough with the latter (per his concluding initials) by husband Hunter S. Kimbrough (1900-1994). The inscribees are Richard Cunliffe McBee, Jr. (1911-1984) and Sara Bailey Kimbrough McBee (1912-2006) who was a daughter of Lucile Bridgeforth Hardy Kimbrough (1888-1985) and Orman Lanier Kimbrough (1884-1949). Orman was the immediate sibling of Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, Upton Sinclair's second wife and, of course, the author of the autobiographical SOUTHERN BELLE. Raised in Biloxi and Greenwood, Mississippi, Mary Craig, Orman, and Hunter were, respectively, the first, second, and seventh children among a brood of ten and brothers are mentioned in their sister's memoir. Thus co-inscribee Sara Bailey Kimbrough McBee is both a niece to author Mary Craig (her aunt) and to the second inscriber Hunter (her uncle) whose message alludes to the family members' ties to the Mary Craig autobiography. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Still a very good copy in a good+ dust jacket. Includes a brief "In Memoriam" essay and Foreword both by Upton Sinclair, b/w plates on unpaged leaves, and a concluding section of Mary Craig's sonnets [pages 409-419] followed by an Index. This posthumous Memorial Edition was the second edition of Mary Craig's book with the first being issued in 1957.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. shows minor wear, tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. New York: AMS Press., 1976. Hardcover.

Hardcover. 343p., first edition, front., inserted b&w plates, illustrated blue cloth cover with an onlay color illustration and titling in white and red worn, spine sloped and worn. *Ahouse A3a. Set in the French Alps and in the impressionable mind of a reader of Dumas. Sinclair was 24.

Buff printed wrappers. 329, [7] pp. No printed note. 5 pp of adverts at rear. Printed on kraft paper. 12mo. 6-13/16" x 4-3/4" Per B & G, the work "based on the Mooney-Billings case, otherwise known as The Preparedness Day Parade Bombing, San Francisco, July 22, 1916. Both Mooney and Billings were convicted (Sinclair felt unjustly), and when he ran for Governor of California in 1934 he pledged to pardon both men if elected." Age-toning. Faint stain to upper left of front cover. A solid VG copy. 1st pb edition (Ahouse A27a; Baird & Greenwood 2268).

Card, 11 x 7cm, very good condition. See Image.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, Hardback/Hardcover, usual stamps and marking. Clean text, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

1st edition (Ahouse A49). xviii, 377, [1 (advert)] pp. Pamphlet [self-wraps, stapled] unpaginated though 8 pp. Frontispiece of Fox. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-5/8" Pamphlet, Nr Fine. Book, square & tight, with modest wear & soiling. A bit of age-toning to paper. Pencil pos [F. Capra] to ffep. Withal, a VG+ copy. Orange cloth binding stamped in black. No dust jacket.

Third printing (per statement upon title page). [6], 527, [9] pages. Hardcover: H 19.5cm x L 13.25cm. Lacks dust jacket. Maroon cloth, light soiling to rear board, slight color fading to spine cloth with ends bumped, some dulling and minor flaking to spine's gilt stamping which remains easily legible but not vibrant, front board minimally decorated with bold black stamping. Toning to edges and endpapers; two-line ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated for November 1928; two small unobtrusive black ink dots at very bottom of page 27 with slender black lines at bottoms of pages 173, 299, 300, and 493. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good copy. Uncommon self-published early printing of Upton Sinclair's classic political and social satire which served as the basis for the 2007 film "There Will be Blood" directed (with screenplay) by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Book concludes with nine pages of advertisements for other Sinclair titles.

Hardcover. 343p., first edition, frontispiece, b&w plates, decorated red cloth cover (also issued in blue cloth, priority unknown), small scratch on onlay color illustration, titling in gold is a bit dulled, slightly shelfworn boards, previous owner's inscriptions on front blank end paper, in very good condition. *Ahouse A3a. Set in the French Alps and in the impressionable mind of a reader of Dumas. Sinclair was 24.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 156 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.38 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. IIlustrations by Louis F. Grant. Pale blue cloth stamped in red and white with pictorial paper onlay (one of at least four bindings, with no known priority). Contemporary owner stamp, modest rubbing to both boards and spine lettering.

Hardcover. 343p., good first edition, frontispiece, inserted b&w plates, illustrated blue cloth cover with a color plate affixed front cover and titling in white and red; shelf worn, edges browned and soiled, hinges cracked. *Ahouse A3a. Set in the French Alps and in the impressionable mind of a reader of Dumas.

FAMILY ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY UPTON SINCLAIR TO IN-LAWS LUCILE AND ORMAN KIMBROUGH. 329, [1], [5] pages. Hardcover: H 19cm x L 13cm. Lacks dust jacket. Red cloth, light mottling to front board with stronger occurrence to rear board, spine cloth sunned with lettering dulled but legible, front board retains bright gilt stamped lettering. Edges toned; light toning to endpapers; several small patches of lined note paper affixed to rear endpapers; a few spots of light soiling to interior text pages which, overall, remain clean. Author's three-line ink inscription upon the front free endpaper: "To Lucile + Orman | with love | Upton Sinclair." Binding is firm. A good+ copy. The inscribees are wife and husband Lucile Bridgeforth Hardy Kimbrough (1888-1985) and Orman Lanier Kimbrough (1884-1949), the latter being the immediate sibling to Upton Sinclair's second wife Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair (1882-1961). Raised in Biloxi and Greenwood, Orman and Mary Craig were the two oldest of ten children and remained close throughout their lives despite her career as activist and writer with husband Upton primarily in California and Orman's career as a lawyer in Mississippi.

FAMILY ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY UPTON SINCLAIR TO A NIECE. First edition (per publisher's logo upon copyright page as was their contemporary practice). [8], 280 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14.5cm. Lacks dust jacket. Green cloth, some staining and soiling to boards with color fading at edges, spine slightly cocked with cloth sunned to a light brown. Very muted green top edge; toning to fore-edge and bottom edge; endpapers toned; foxing to frontispiece b/w portrait with toning/foxing to adjacent leaves; some light foxing and a few small stains to interior pages. Author's six-line ink inscription upon the front free endpaper: "To Sara Bailey | with best wishes | for her education | from her uncle | Upton Sinclair | Pasadena June 30 1935." Binding is firm. A good+ copy. The book's inscribee is Sarah Bailey Kimbrough McBee (1912-2006) who was a daughter of Lucile Bridgeforth Hardy Kimbrough (1888-1985) and Orman Lanier Kimbrough (1884-1949), the latter being the immediate sibling to Upton Sinclair's second wife Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair (1882-1961). Raised in Biloxi and Greenwood, Orman and Mary Craig were the two oldest of ten children and remained close throughout their lives despite her career as activist and writer with husband Upton primarily in California and Orman's career as a lawyer in Mississippi.

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided) INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR. xxiv, 412 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Lacks dust jacket. Blue cloth, some rubbing at spine head, slight scuffing at spine ends and tips of board corners, gilt stamping to spine and front board remains bright. Muted green top edge; toning/foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge; some toning to endpapers mostly at gutters. Author's warm eight-line ink inscription on front free endpaper: "To | Florence Anderson | Moore | a dear friend | of our family | in Mississippi | Upton Sinclair | June 1, 1961." Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. Upton Sinclair's wife Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair (1882-1961) was from a prominent Greenwood, Mississippi family with that connection serving as the linkage to the book's inscribee Florence Elizabeth Anderson Equen Moore (1897-1995). Mrs. Moore once owned (with ex-husband Stanard Equen) the Equen Plantation in Minter City, Mississippi just a few miles north of Greenwood and the book was acquired from the May 2015 sale of family property at that landmark Mississippi Delta house noted for its kitchen which was utilized in several scenes in the 2011 film "The Help.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. IIlustrations by Louis F. Grant. Red cloth stamped in black with pictorial paper onlay (one of at least three bindings, with no known prority). Owner name twice on front endpapers, a bit spine cocked and a little sunning, about very good.