Sinclair, Upton — Mountain City

Pasadena, CA Upton Sinclair 1st edition pp. 399. Small 8vo. Near fine condition. Original dust jacket present and is lightly chipped, with very light soiling, else g/vg condition. 'Jed Rusher was born in a hut in the cattle-country, and while he crawled about in the muck of the sugar-beet fields, wielding a heavy 'topping knife', he dreamed of ease and power, the flame of greatness burned in his soul. How Jed rose in the world, elbowed his way into a rich man's home, and married a child of privilege, and made fifty millions before he was thirty - this is a story of Success in America....' This is the edition published by the author, and encased in the original dust jacket. This title was also published by Albert & Charls Boni in the same year. Gottesman, in 'Upton Sinclair / An Annotated Checklist', A1250 does not note priority of publition.