Upton Sinclair. The Metropolis 1st UK. Edward Arnold 1908-01-01, 1908.
Price: US$9.17 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Some scuffing and wear to the cover edges. The spine is split along its edges and damaged to its top and bottom. The textblock is still bound to the cover but feels fragile, fine to read still.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Price: US$98.35 + shipping
Description: First edition hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covers with black art deco illustrated boards depicting a devil hovering over the Statue of Liberty, lower edge untrimmed. 8vo 7¾" x 5½" 342, 2 [pp] catalogue. Publisher's File Copy with paper label to upper panel and faint black stamp and file No. 28437 to title page. In Very Good clean and bright condition with slight age darkening to spine, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1900-1925
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Sinclair, Upton. The Metropolis. Edward Arnold, London, 1908.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Edward Arnold, 1908. Socialist muckraker Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) ran for political office and wrote some 100 books; he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1943. Quite naturally, "The Metropolis" focuses on economic inequality, contrasting the lives of the super-rich with those of the poor. [Could this be strangely relevant today?] This is a Very Good copy of the First English Edition, published in the same year as its American cousin. Not a common title. The striking decorative orange binding features a flying devil attacking the Statue of Liberty. Clean text; 342 pages, with two pages of publisher adverts in the rear. Mildly rubbed, with dusty edges. The orange of the front cover and the spine have faded considerably; the rearcover still retains a bright aspect. In an archival plastic protector. First UK Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Geo. M. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Sinclair, Upton. THE METROPOLIS. Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1908.
Price: US$201.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 342 pp. plus ads. White endpapers. Back endpapers with light foxing, ffep missing. Orange cloth with black art deco titles and illustration. Corners bumped, darkened spine, small stains. VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada