Upton Sinclair — Boston (2 vols. in slipcase)

Long Beach: pub'd by author, 1928. Hard bound, two volumes complete, first editions in reddish brown cloth with black and gilt titles, x + Pp755. Volume one: Fine in a very good plus dust jacket with very minute tears at spine ends and corner tips. The original price of $5 for the first volume is present at the bottom front of dust jacket, under a blurb by Floyd Dell, who writes: " . . . The whole thing so far is masterly, and even with the end foreknown you are creating terrible suspense. Constructively it's a wonderful job. The relation of your invented personal dramas to the great social one is an extraordinarily and almost miraculously happy one. To my mind, in spite of Toistoi's 'War and Peace,' and some of Zola's things, there has never been any fiction quite like this of yours. The method really constitutes a great literary invention." Volume two: Fine in a very good plus dust jacket with faint wear and minute tears to heel of spine and bottom corner tips. The price of $5.00 for both volumes is repeated again on this 2nd volume, along with another blurb, this one from E. Haldeman-Julius, who writes: "Here you are at your zenith, in all the full glory and endless powers of your genius. Here is the great Sinclair at his greatest. I know that 'Boston' will be a noble and gigantic masterpiece. Its craftsmanship is a joy; it floats, or shall I say it glides. Here is quick, lively, beautiful writing: prose that will live. What delights me is that the whole job moves along so easily, so airily - but not indifferently, for each paragraph, yes, each sentence, gets somewhere.". Both volumes are free of markings. The publisher's box is torn/separated at the top right side as well as halfway down the right back side. With some patience, this is easily glued and repairable. Total weight unpacked: one kilogram. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books and also offer local curbside pick-up. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.