The Jungle by SINCLAIR, Upton - 1906

New York: The Jungle Publishing Co, 1906. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Olive green cloth with ivory lettering and black and ivory front board pictorial stamping. 413pp. Very good. Faint binding wear only, with ivory spine lettering a touch rubbed; rear inner hinge rough but neatly, archivally strengthened, thus tight; ownership signature on half-title page. First edition, second state, with no "Sustainers' Edition" label on front pastedown. Tight and nice, with catchy front board image of Chicago meat-packing factories belching smoke -- and this copy with choice autograph addition: Tipped to inner flyleaf is a near fine Typed Note Signed from Sinclair, 1p, 7½" X 5", Pasadena, CA, 29 September 1939. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar). On imprinted letterhead, Sinclair tells this admirer "I... appreciate your remembering my birthday, and I thank you for your kind wishes." Signed boldly in ink. THE novel that changed The Windy City's meat-packing industry, exposing its horrific working conditions, even more horrific sanitary conditions and mankind's astonishing inhumanity to fellow man and beast alike.