BOSTON

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1928. 2 volumes. First edition, “first and second printings before publication”. With a CARD SIGNED BY SINCLAIR tipped in. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, the covers decorated in dark green and gilt with pictorial designs and typography, the spines lettered and decorated in dark green. x, 374; 375-756. A handsome and attractive set, the bindings in very good order, the corners showing only the very slightest bit of evidence of shelving, the text blocks are clean, tight and fresh. FINE FIRST EDITION WITH TIPPED IN CARD SIGNED BY SINCLAIR. Upton Sinclair was no quiet author. From beginning to end, the author covered a plethora of subjects more intently than any other modern Renaissance man, exposing one clandestine act after another, and in so doing, enraging organisations and institutions throughout the United States. During an age just before the HUAAC’s inquisitors were exposing and attacking Communist contingents and sympathisers, Sinclair decided to attack American capitalism. BOSTON is one of Sinclair's best known historical novels and is about the Sacco and Vanzetti case. It is a book which upset more than a few "proper Bostonians" and caused a great searching of the public soul. This first edition with signed card is a highlight of the author’s most controversial works.