Boston: A Novel

NY: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover_slicpcase. Collectible - Near Fine/Good. 5.25"x7.5" Vol. I has 374 pgs. Vol. II has 756 pgs. Green cloth boards. Navy ink US Capital w/gilt roof. Navy letters on spine. Date on title page. White and gray mountain ranges for paste downs. First and second printings before publication. PON on half-title page of Vol. one. No other markings. No bumps. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/slight tone. Not x-library, & unclipped ($5.00). DJs have many chips and small tears. Vol. II DJ is in much better shape. Slip case has soiling and is fragile. A wealthy dowager confronts the brutality of the class system and fights for justice in this dramatic account of the Sacco and Vanzetti case. With the publication of The Jungle in 1906, Upton Sinclair became the literary conscience of America. Two decades later, he brought his singular artistry and steadfast commitment to the cause of social equality to bear on the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists accused of armed robbery and murder. Boston, a "documentary novel" published one year after Sacco and Vanzetti were executed, brilliantly combines fact and fiction to expose the toxic atmosphere of paranoia, prejudice, and greed in which the two men were tried. Recently widowed sixty-year-old Cornelia Thornwell abandons her Boston B... Source: Publisher
Upton Sinclair was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, activist, and politician whose novel The Jungle (1906) led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.