Great Neck NY: Channel Press, Inc., (1956).
Price: $500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Faint dampspots on the boards, else near fine in a lightly rubbed, just about fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to the children of Sinclair’s friend and associate Gaylord Wilshire: "To Myra, Mary II, & Logan with love, Upton Sinclair." Sinclair's condemnation of alcohol, told through the illnesses and deaths of various of his friends and family from drink. Wilshire, a billboard magnate turned socialist activist, was a close friend and associate of Sinclair’s who tragically ended his own life after business reverses. Indeed, after many years of underwriting Socialism in general and Sinclair in particular, Wilshire lost a fortune for Sinclair attempting to run a goldmine on socialist principles.
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Upton Sinclair
birth name: Upton Beall Sinclair
born: 9/20/1878
died: 11/25/1968
nationality: USA