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The jungle / by Upton Sinclair.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PS 3537 I85 J814x 1906a
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meat industry and trade--Fiction.
- Meat industry and trade.
- Stockyards--Illinois--Chicago--Fiction.
- Stockyards.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Working class--Fiction.
- Working class.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Immigrants--Fiction.
- Immigrants.
- Lithuanian Americans--Fiction.
- Lithuanian Americans.
- Radicalism--Fiction.
- Radicalism.
- Lithuanians--Chicago (Ill.)--Economic conditions--Fiction.
- Lithuanians.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Ethnic groups--Economic conditions--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Social problem fiction.
- Proletarian fiction.
- Novels.
- Political fiction.
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 (bookplate) (Dreiser copy)
- Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection)
- Curran, Stuart A. (former owner)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 413 pages, 5 unnumbered pages (first 2 pages and last 5 pages blank) ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906.
- Summary:
- Sinclair's work shocked the country with its descriptions of deplorable conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry. The novel is credited with influencing the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and other laws pertaining to the industry.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- Verso of title page: Published February, 1906.
- This is the first appearance in book form, first printing. (Although this and the Jungle Pub. Co. 1906 edition both have the same Feb. 1906 statement, it appears from the type wear and other evidence that the Doubleday edition was run off first.--Lilly Lib.).
- First published serially in "One-Hoss Philosophy", no. 33-35, in 1905 April-October.--OCLC OLUC
- Sometimes published with sub-title: A story of Chicago.--OCLC OLUC.
- "Other books by Upton Sinclair": p. [4] of preliminary p.
- First leaf and p. [414-418] blank.
- Bound in decorative olive-green cloth with illustration of factory in black and white; stamped in white and black.
- Local Notes:
- Dreiser copy has bookplate of Theodore Dreiser.
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "What they wanted from the hog was profits ... and that was what they wanted from the working man. Upton Sinclair".
- Culture Class Collection copy has "I" in date on title-page; unbroken type on copyright page.
- Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Stuart A. Curran.
- Kislak Curran copy has stamp of John K. Nichols, Haverhill, Mass.
- Kislak Curran copy has ms. annotation "One man who read this book (after getting up from a sickness) committed suicide. Beware!!" on verso of half-title page.
- The Historical Society of Pennsylvania: The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- Cited in:
- Lilly Lib. Cat. ... from the Upton Sinclair archives, no. 51 and 52
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968. Jungle.
- OCLC:
- 618893
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