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I, Candidate For Governor: And How I Got Licked by SINCLAIR, Upton - 1935

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I, Candidate For Governor: And How I Got Licked by SINCLAIR, Upton - 1935

I, Candidate For Governor: And How I Got Licked

by SINCLAIR, Upton

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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 215pp, [ix]. Text edges tanned, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.50), with even toning and dusting to panels, and slightly darker toning to spine, and a small triangular chip to upper rear spine-fold; Very Good+. Sinclair's account of his 1934 California gubernatorial campaign, in which he polled nearly 900,000 votes under the "End Poverty In California" [EPIC] banner. "...the EPIC campaign changed the course of state politics in California...adding to the documentary value of the book are 38 political cartoons, mostly anti-Sinclair, which demonstrate the passions of the campaign and the vicious level at which it was sometimes fought." There was a simultaneous "Sinclair" edition; the Farrar edition is uncommon, in or out of jacket. AHOUSE A54.a.
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  • Date Published 1935

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I, CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR: AND HOW I GOT LICKED

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Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1994. Paperback. Near Fine in wrappers; some edgewear. 5.5 x 0.68 x 8.3 inches. First Edition, First Printing Think it’s only today that elections are manipulated? Read this muckraking memoir by Sinclair about his 1934 run for governor In California and his campaign to End Poverty In California (EPIC); introduction by James N. Gregory; includes a page on additional reading and an appendix with A Proclamation to the People of California and The EPIC Plan; 249 pages
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Los Angeles: End Poverty League, Inc, 1935. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Hardcover. 8'' x 5 5/8''. 215pp. plus 9 page appendix. Age soiling to very fragile dustjacket. Pages are brittle and age toned. A scarce book by this publisher.
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