Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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SINCLAIR, Upton (1878?1968). Boston. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. 2 volumes, 8vo. Original gilt?stamped pictorial cloth (extreme corners a bit rubbed, some light darkening to spines). Provenance: Earl R. Fanjoy (booklabel); R.O. Brewster (penciled signature). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY SINCLAIR TO CLARENCE DARROW on half?title. Both Sinclair and Darrow were noted political activists and self?proclaimed socialists. In September 1905, Darrow joined Sinclair and others to form the Intercollegiate Socialist Society which promoted socialist ideas among America?s college population. In 1928, Sinclair?s Boston would lose out on the Pulitzer Prize due to its ?socialistic tendencies? which made it unsuitable according to the Prize committee?s chairman.