UPTON SINCLAIR - PAMPHLET SIGNED - HFSID 802
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UPTON SINCLAIR
Advertising pamphlet for an edition of Southern Belle by Upton Sinclair's wife Mary
Craig Sinclair, printed after her death. Signed "With best wishes" in blue ink by Upton.
Pamphlet signed "With best wishes/Upton Sinclair". Pencil notations in top left corner of page
1 in unknown hand. 4 pages,5½x7, 1 sheet folded, front and verso. Titled: "In
Memoriam/By Upton Sinclair". Advertistingpamphlet for Southern Belle, by Upton's wife
MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR (1883-1961). In part: "My beloved wife the wisest kindest and
loveliest human soul I have ever known, has gone to her rest at the age of seventy-eight. Three
years ago she wrote and published a book of memoirs, 'Southern Belle'; I am now
planning to print a new edition of 50,000 copies… A copy will be sent to as a gift, postpaid,
to all libraries who ask for it." Southern Belle was first published in 1957. American writer
UPTON SINCLAIR (1878-1968) is best known for The Jungle, his 1906 novel exposing
the horrors of the Chicago meat-packing industry. His other novels include The Money
Changers (1908), King Coal (1917) and Oil! (1927). Sinclair was also active in politics,
organizing the socialist EPIC (End Poverty in California) movement during the Great
Depression and running for as Democratic candidate for Governor of California in 1934. In
the 1940s, Sinclair wrote an 11-volume series about contemporary American character, "Lanny
Budd", who travels through time and meets historical figures; Dragon's Teeth(1942) won
the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Eight of his books have been adapted for film and TV,
including There Will Be Blood(2007), which was based on Oil!. Folded once horizontally
and vertically. Otherwise in fine condition.
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