Geo Upton (7 results)

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Acceptable. heavy wear, tear, chipping, tanning, wraps detached.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 3rd. Gift inscription front page.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Some bumps and stains. But the front- and back cover and the spine are well preserved. Name of former owner. Cover ill.: Geo M. (Georges Morrow ?). Last page has been torn. Geo M. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo; 450 [irregular pagination], [ii] pages; embossed original green cloth One of the two contemporary, popular, book-length accounts of the fire of October, 1871, known as The Great Chicago Fire. Written by two journalists. [Jewel V25]. Includes the anecdote of the policeman who saved his house by showering it with apple cider ! 2 folding maps, 44 woodcuts. Includes a poem, "Chicago" by John Greenleaf Whittier: "Men said at vestpers: All is well ! / In one wild night the city fell". 2 folding maps, 44 woodcuts (illustrator).…

Paris: Grasset (directeur: Henry Poulaille). Un volume 23,5x18,5cm broché de 256 pages illustrées en noir dans et hors texte. Papier uniformément jauni sinon bon état. Excellente revue fondée et animée par Henry Poulaille, le chef de file de la littérature prolétarienne en France au XXème siècle. Livres. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First UK Edition. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. Socialist muckraker Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) ran for political office and wrote some 100 books; he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1943. Quite naturally, "The Metropolis" focuses on economic inequality, contrasting the lives of the super-rich with those of the poor. [Could this be strangely relevant today?] This is a Very Good copy of the First English Edition, published in the same year as its American cousin. Not a common title. The striking decorative orange binding features a flying devil attacking the Statue of Liberty. Clean text; 342 pages, with two pages of publisher adverts in the rear. Mildly rubbed, with dusty edges. The orange of the front cover and the spine have faded considerably; the rearcover still retains a bright aspect. In an archival plastic protector. First UK Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Geo. M. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Geo. M. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo, 450, [ii] pages; in the scarcer contemporary full sheep, rebacked with new leather, with original black morocco spine label. One of the two contemporary, popular, book-length accounts of the fire of October, 1871, known as The Great Chicago Fire. Written by two journalists. [Jewel V25]. Includes the anecdote of the policeman who saved his house by showering it with apple cider ! 2 folding maps, 44 woodcuts. 2 folding maps, 44 woodcuts (illustrator).…