New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906.
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Hardcover. First edition, second issue (with battered type to the "1" on the copyright page). Doubleday edition (also issued in a Sustainer's Edition). Modest rubbing to the white paint spine lettering but still easily readable, a nice and tight, very good plus copy. One of the few books ever published to have a direct, immediate and significant impact on American society and thought. Although Sinclair’s intent was to expose the abusive labor conditions in the Chicago stockyards as a means of promoting socialism, the American public was more interested in the novel’s vivid depiction of unsanitary conditions in the slaughterhouses and meat-processing plants, and as a result the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was passed. The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels. An attractive copy.
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