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SINCLAIR, Upton. THE JUNGLE. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1906.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo, 413pp., green pictorial cloth, lacks front free endpaper Published on the same day as The Jungle Publishing Company edition; later state with larger font '3' p.385, and with other typewear. See also 2012 exhibition at the Library of Congress: "Books That Shaped America". "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach - Upton Sinclair." [CHICAGO BY THE BOOK 101 Publications That Shaped The City and Its Image, 27; Andrews, CHICAGO IN STORY, p. 101 ].

Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Upton Sinclair. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page & Company, Melbourne, 1906.

Price: US$33.77 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Australasian Edition published June, 1906. llustrated olive-green hardback covers have some wear with two 3 inch tears in spine. Foxing on beginning, title and end blank pages.

Seller: Carmela's Books, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday Page & Co., 1906.

Price: US$70.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st edition, 2nd state with broken "1" on copyright page. Slight fading to lettering on spine. Light rubbing to cloth.

Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1906.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Good reading copy with original green cloth covers.Fading to soine titles and author name on front board, but still readable. Foxed endpapers. Unmarked. Apparently, this is the second state copy.

Seller: Steven G. Jennings, Spring Branch, TX, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page & Company, New YorK, 1906.

Price: US$135.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1906 First Edition, Second State First Printing with no Dust Jacket. The No.1 in the date on the copyright page is battered and missing the top half. The green cloth binding of the book has bumped and frayed corners along with worn edges and a frayed edge at the top and bottom of the Backstrip. The front cover has a recessed design of factories with billowing smoke and white lettering. the white on the backstrip recessed lettering has been worn away. The top edge gilt is worn and fading. The previous owners nameplate is at the top of the FFEP, otherwise, the interior of th book is clean and unmarked. The meat packing industry working conditions portrayed by Uipton Sinclair showed decent hard-working immigrants, stripped of their savings, health, dignity and frequently their lives, in the production of shoddy, unsafe consumer products. It rewarded crime and political corruption, while crushing anyone foolish enough to demand fair treatment and a decent life. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws.

Seller: Ariel's Book Nook, Pensacola, FL, U.S.A.

UPTON SINCLAIR. THE JUNGLE. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE @ COMPANY, NEW YORK, 1906.

Price: US$169.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: WHITE FADED OUT ON SPINE. BLACK DEVICE VERY GOODFRONT PANEL VERY GOOD OR SLIGHTLY BETTER HINGES SOUND AND STURDY.BOOK SQUARE. AND CLEAN

Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1906.

Price: US$173.00 + shipping

Description: 413p. Ex-library, Very good condition, spine faded, library bookplate

Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1906.

Price: US$174.88 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: February, 1906. Sinclair's book about early 19th century working conditions for many immigrants. Green cloth covered boards have faded yellow text with a black rose on spine, faded white text below a presumably Chicago scene of industrial 'full steam ahead'. Extremities are bumped and scuffed, War Service Library sticker on front pastedown, missing ffep, gauze showing at front hinge. XXXI chapters, 413 pp. A book that was influential in changing the lives of people similar to the characters depicted. Bookseller's Inventory # 241934.

Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle.. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1906.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1906 first edition, first state, with an unbroken type on "1906". Illustrated olive-green hardback covers show quite a bit of wear. The spine edges are rubbed, the corners are bumped, and the spine title is faded, though still legible. A few soiled spots to the covers. The pages are clean and tightly bound. A solid copy of the first edition of this classic muck-raking novel, which had a great influence on labor conditions and labor laws in the United States. ; 413 pages

Seller: Orrin Schwab Books, Providence, UT, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906.

Price: US$238.50 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: First Edition, First Printing 1906. First Doubleday Edition. Unbroken 1 in Published February 1906 on the copyright. Book in Fair/Poor condition with heavy moisture damage, mainly to covers. Moderate foxing inside covers and on pages. Pages in decent condition. Minor waffling to pages. Green cloth covers 413 pages. Tight binding. Not a Sustainer's Edition. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri.

Seller: Archives Books inc., Edmond, OK, U.S.A.

SINCLAIR, Upton (1878-1968). The Jungle. New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906, 1906.

Price: US$327.83 + shipping

Description: [American Literature] FIRST EDITION with perfect type to copyright page, title leaf is a cancel. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 413 [5]. Publisher's mid green cloth, with white and black titles and decoration to spine and upper. Contents clean, flyleaf with discreet ink intials 'H.H.' and minor pencil erasure mark. Binding clean and bright with white lettering rubbed from spine as usual. Very good. The author's best-known novel, focusing on the dire conditions at a Chicago meat-packing factory.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

Upton Sinclair. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1906.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edtion, first issue. Unbattered type on copyright page. Stated Published Febuary 1906, same date on title page. Pea green cloth with white and black decoration. Moderate wear to boards, especially to corners and head and heel of spine. Weakened hinges cracking. Clean interior. Owner's signature on first front endpaper in pencil. Not a Sustainer's copy. Good copy.

Seller: Roadrunner Books, otsego, MI, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1906.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Octavo. First trade edition, following the Jungle Press issue. Publisher's pictorial olive-green cloth, blocked in white and black on the upper board and spine; fairly well-rubbed at all edges, spine tips, corners, and spine, with some offsetting/age-toning to the endpapers.

Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.

Upton Sinclair. The Jungle. Doubleday Page and Co., New York, NY, U.S.A., 1906.

Price: US$400.01 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition first printing. Green boards with white titling. Picture of a factory on the front. Bumped at the corners and minor wear at the spine. Tight and clean thruout. Broken 1 in copyright date.

Seller: The Book Lovers, Philo, CA, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. THE JUNGLE. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1906.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, second issue with the broken type on the copyright page. An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) is best known for this devastating expose of the meat-packing industry. The novel was a shocking revelation of intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards. It quickly became a bestseller, arousing public sentiment and resulting in such federal legislation as the Pure Food and Drug Act. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with pictorial black and white stamping. An especially crisp and bright example, with a bit of rubbing to the white stamping.

Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.

SINCLAIR, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page and Company, 1906.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1906 The JUNGLE 1st/1st Upton Sinclair Chicago Meatpacking Socialism Immigrants ‘The Jungle’ is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. This book is without question one of the most famous American novels, especially those from the 20th-century. Sinclair portrayed the harsh work conditions, primarily of immigrants, in Chicago at the turn of the century. The response to this book led to many reforms in public health especially those in the Food and Drug Administration. This 1906 first printing includes the original green decorative cloth binding and the expected first issue points. Item number: #30645 Price: $550 SINCLAIR, Upton The Jungle New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1906. First edition, first state. Details: • Collation: Complete o [8], 413, [1] • Edition Note: o ‘Published February, 1906’ on copyright page o Unbroken type of copyright date: 1906 • References: AHOUSE A7a; HANNA 3234; RIDEOUT p.292. • Language: English • Binding: Hardcover; secure o Pictorial green cloth • Size: ~8in X 5.5in (20cm x 13.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 30645 Photos available upon request.

Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.

SINCLAIR, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1906.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, Doubleday, Page issue. White lettering on spine a touch faded, some staining on the rear board, else a very good or better copy.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1906.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo, 413pp. Publisher's green cloth, title stamped in white on spine, front cover with industrial illustration. Light rubbing to spine title and front cover illustration, publisher's name on spine rubbed and difficult to read. Solid binding. This is the second issue, with "1" on the copyright page with imperfect type and Doubleday imprint on title page.

Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday Page and Co., NY, 1906.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: An extremely nice copy of this landmark book. Very tight binding, clean and bright green covers with white lettering. Doubleday Page & Co. publisher, with February, 1906 on copyright page and 1906 also noted on the title page. NO marks, bookplates or signatures to the interior pages. A very clean copy.

Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1906.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, first issue without worn type on copyright page. 1 vols. 8vo. Green pictorial cloth. Light shelfwear, adhesive stains on spine, front cover, and pastedowns Harmonie Club stamps on title page., half-title and p. 189 First edition, first issue without worn type on copyright page.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1906.

Price: US$825.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. [8], 1-413, [5] pp. Bound in green cloth with white lettering and decorations in white and black on the boards and spine. Lacks the dust jacket. First issue without the battered type in the date on the copyright page. Ahearn Collected Books, 604. Chicago by the Book 27. A bright example. Sinclair's most important novel, intended to affect change in U.S. immigration policy and worker's rights, but instead inspiring a change in meat packing food safety measures. A small push to the top textblock, a few flecks of rubbing to the cloth's edges. Some offsetting to the front gutter and a twentieth-century nametag on the front pastedown (with Kenosha, Wis. printed under the name).

Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. THE JUNGLE. Doubleday, Page: NY, 1906.

Price: US$862.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8 x 5.25", pict green cloth, 413pp, covers rubbed and soiled, extremities bumped and fraying, spine quite dull, ink name of former owner inside front cover, pp toned and used, but still a FIRST DOUBLEDAY, PAGE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with no battered "1" on copyright page.

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday Page, ny, 1906.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description:

Seller: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906.

Price: US$1100.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo, green pictorial cloth lettered in white; slightly rubbed. First edition, first issue, without battered type on copyright page and Doubleday imprint on the title page. A handsome copy of Sinclair's muckraking novel.

Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.

Upton Sinclair; Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Upton Sinclair writes to Thomas Wentworth Higginson on the publication of The Jungle. , 1906.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: Typewritten manuscript letter from Upton Sinclair to Thomas Wentworth Higginson regarding the publication of The Jungle with brief handwritten postscript at end. Dated March 3, 1906. On Intercollegiate Socialist Society letterhead (of which both were founding members). A wonderful link between two of the greatest activists of their different generations, along with contemporaneous commentary on the publication of Sinclair's most significant literary work. Text reads: 'My dear Col. Higginson: I sent you some copies of the circulars you asked for yesterday. I am in receipt of your letter about "The Jungle." I recognize to the full the difficulties of which you speak, but I did the best I could with the book. We shall soon know whether or not the defects are great enough to spoil it for its purpose. By the way, Doubleday, Page & Company are quoting the opinions which you kindly gave me in your earlier letter, and which you will note enclosed. I am not sure from your second letter whether you would care to have these used or not. Please act as your own judgment dictates and consider only the merits of the case.' [in Sinclair's handwriting at bottom:] 'If you don't mind, you needn't bother to reply!'

Seller: Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle - First Edition. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1906.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, Feb, 1906 printing, Finely rebound in green leather with gold gilt title, original pages slightly worn and soiled, publisher's imprint on title page,

Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. The Jungle Publishing Co, New York, 1906.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, later state with battered type on copyright page. [x], 413, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With Both Title-Pages. A rare variant containing both an integral Subscriber's edition title-page and a tipped-in Doubleday title-page, and bound in the Doubleday cloth. Publisher's green cloth (Doubleday binding with publisher's name stamped at foot of spine). Covers rubbed, spine faded, remnant of bookplate (perhaps the Sustainers' Edition label) on front pastedown, contemporary owner's signature to ffep First edition, later state with battered type on copyright page.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Upton Sinclair. THE JUNGLE. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1906.

Price: US$1407.94 + shipping

Description: Very Good+ in boards.

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, New York, 1906.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing First Edition with unbroken type on the copyright page. This copy is SIGNED by Upton Sinclair on a tipped in signature. The book is in wonderful condition. The binding is tight, with light wear to the panels. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1906.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, Doubleday, Page & Company issue, first issue with unbattered type on the copyright page. Signed by Upton Sinclair and inscribed on the front free endpaper to writer and poet Vernon Patterson, with Patterson's bookplate to the front pastedown. A pencil notation in Patterson's hand on the front free endpaper reads, "Autographed by U.S. at his home in Monrovia Dec. 2, 1962." Bound in publisher's original green cloth stamped in black and white. Very Good. Cloth rubbed at extremities, lightly stained at bottom of front cover, stamping heavily rubbed at spine and lightly so to front cover and pages toned.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. THE JUNGLE. The Jungle Publishing Co., New York, 1906.

Price: US$8500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-413 [414: blank] [415-417: ads] [418: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], original pictorial olive green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and white. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Sinclair to poet George Sterling on the front free endpaper: "To George Sterling / with the regards of / The Author." Below Sinclair's inscription Jack London has added a gift inscription: "Blessed Greek! / -- Wolf. / March 6, 1906." The projected publication date of the The Jungle Publishing Co. issue was 15 February 1906. The editions of The Jungle Publishing Co. and Doubleday, Page & Company were published simultaneously: Jungle's copies with integral title leaf and the "SUSTAINER'S EDITION" label on the front paste-down are the earliest, but the Doubleday, Page copies with tipped in title leaves precede Jungle's regular copies. Sinclair's best known and most popular novel. This exposé of the Chicago stockyards and packing houses, more a Socialist treatise than a work of fiction, led to the pure food campaign of the Theodore Roosevelt era. "Next to UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, the most famous propaganda novel in American literature." - Adams, Radical Literature in America, p. 59. "The UNCLE TOM'S CABIN of wage slavery!" - Jack London. "If Sinclair has never been a great creative novelist ., he has been something else of value -- one of the great information centers in American literature. Few American novelists have done more to make their fellow citizens conscious of the society, all of it, in which they live." - Rideout, The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954, pp. 30-38. Blake, p. 238. Coan, pp. 86; 214. Hanna 3234. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 S-509. FPAA V, p. 298. This copy never had a "sustainer's" label affixed to front paste-down. After Sterling's death by suicide in 1926, the book passed into the hands of Edna R. Pierson, whose bookplate is affixed to the front paste-down. Below the bookplate is a lightly penciled note in Edna's hand that reads: "Mary Lofler, friend of Geo. Sterling's & also his landlady (& mine) gave me this in 1926." Edna has also identified "Blessed Greek" as "London's nick name for Sterling" and "Wolf" as "Jack London" Cloth worn at edges, delicate white chalk lettering perished from spine panel, early reinforcement of inner hinges with white paper tape, front hinge cracked again, still a sturdy copy. A small leaflet (90 x 153 mm), London's CIRCULATE "THE JUNGLE" (BAL 11892 Open Letter A [B?]) is laid in. A wonderful association copy. (#164561)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Doubleday, New York, 1906.

Price: US$27500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 1st edition, 1st printing, the trade issue (there was also a subscriber's issue from this same printing, but all copies were printed by Doubleday and ours is the 1st state with the Doubleday imprint on title page and "1" in the date on the copyright page in perfect type). Former owner's stamp to endpaper, else fine (the white stamping to the cloth is unworn), in a dustjacket that's been restored but with no facsimile and it is a rare jacket with no sales at auction going back 50 years. In a visual aid to authenticity, offsetting from the jacket flaps to the endpapers confirms that this jacket was always on this copy of the book. A transcendent copy for this 1st edition. Arguably the most widely influential 20th century book published in America, expectedly awakening the public to corruption in the meat trust while unexpectedly begetting fundamental Federal action with the Pure Food and Drug Act. And though this kind of government regulation was branded as communism in the 1950s, it wasn't. And by the way, who'd have ever guessed that the fatal flaw of communism would be that there wasn't any money in it? President Theodore Roosevelt was so shocked by what he read that he forced a clean meat act through congress (expanded to oversee all Food and Drugs), with all the far-reaching applications that implies. Later in life, Sinclair said of his masterpiece: "I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach.".

Seller: Biblioctopus, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.