Description
First edition of Boston: A Novel by Upton Sinclair.
Octavo, [two volumes], x, 374pp; 375-755pp. Green cloth, title stamped in green on front covers and spines, illustration stamped on front covers. No additional printings listed on copyright pages. Solid text blocks, a fine example. In the publisher’s dust jackets, $5.00 retail price on front flaps, faint sunning to spines, Volume II spine lightly bumped, a near fine example. Housed in publisher’s original slipcase with illustrated front panel, price listed on spine, and synopsis on rear.
Upton Sinclair wrote Boston as a “documentary novel” to cover the intricacies of the American legal system through the context of the murder-robbery case of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
