1906 THE JUNGLE Upton Sinclair Hardcover Archival Clear Sleeve

1906 February hardcover edition of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Published by Grosset & Dunlap in New York. Cover has wear commensurate with age and has been placed in a loose fitting archival clear sleeve for handling. There is writing in pencil inside the cover. Hinge is loose at title page.

Sinclair's intent by writing The Jungle was to expose the abusive labor conditions in the Chicago stockyards as a means of promoting socialism, however the American public was much more horrified by the novel's vivid depiction of unsanitary conditions in the slaughterhouses and meat-processing plants. This was most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels. If you are a collector of banned books, this is one you want on your shelf.