Sinclair Upton Introduction London Jack (6 results)

Softcover. Condition: Poor. Front cover and front free endpaper are detached but present. Front cover is separating into layers and has a horizontal split. Leather or leather-like covers have considerable edge wear. Rear inner hinge is mostly split.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. ] Softcover, 12mo, appx 4 3/4 x 7 inches, 891 + 5 pages of ads, Good to Good+. Solid text-block, paper uniformly tanned throughout. Unprinted spine has half-inch-square chip missing at head. Front panel has repaired spine-fold tears - 1.5 inches top and bottom (carefully reaffixed) + had been (still is) a short tear into the front panel at the end of one tear. Rather minor corner trauma other than one corner chip absent from back cover. Sinclair thanks a Dr. Haynes of Los Angeles for making the funds available to purchase the copyright and printing plates from the John C. Winston Comapny (book originally published in 1915). "The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice. Selected from twenty-five languages covering a period of five thousand years." RWR5 Sociology Political Science Economics Socialism Socialist Radical Politics.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 891 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. New York, NY: John C. Winston Company. G/No Dustjacket. (1915). . Cloth. 12mo., 896 pp., spine faded, front endpaper cut . Black & White Plates (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Tender hinges with all pages well-attached, solid maroon boards with gently bumped corners, gilt lettering to front board, black lettering to spine strip, unmarked pages throughout. Signed by Sinclair on front end paper, " With best wishes, Upton Sinclair.". Illustrated with Reproductions of Social Protest in Art (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; photographic frontispiece,891,[5]pp; illus. Spine ends nudged, light wear to corners and lower board edges, internally clean and tight; a Very Good copy.With printed bookplate of Ruth Jarvis Hall to front pastedown. Important early anthology of radical prose, poetry, and art, chosen "from five thousand years of writings on the working man." Includes sources as diverse as Arturo Giovannitti and Eugene Debs to Habakkuk and Martin Luther. Sinclair's intention with this work was to create a "Socialist Bible" to be mass-produced and present in every American household, and Winston's initial edition even included a "Bible Issue" in black, limp pebble-grained morocco. In his introduction, Jack London indeed refers to this as "a humanist holy book;" but as of this writing (2025), Sinclair's effort does not appear to have supplanted the Christian Bible - despite years of looking, we have yet to encounter a copy of The Cry for Justice in a hotel dresser drawer. There was also a Sinclair issue of this title, ca. 1921; this trade edition from the Philadelphia publisher John C. Winston is by far the scarcer. AHOUSE A22a; BAL 11961.…