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Leatherbound. Zustand: Like New. Limited Edition, Pulitzer Prized Series, LIKE NEW! Bound in full genuine leather with raised hubs, elaborate 22?karat gilt tooling, all edges gilt, and moire silk endpapers with a sewn?in ribbon marker, this volume exemplifies Franklin Library?s highest?grade 1970s binding. The text is sewn (not glued) on high?quality, opaque paper, produced for both durability and an elegant shelf presentation. Won Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1943. 586 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. . . . . . . . A 1942 historical novel in Upton Sinclair s Lanny Budd series, following the wealthy art dealer and covert socialist Lanny from the crash of 1929 through the Nazi consolidation of power in Germany, as his travels, family ties to a Dutch Jewish family, and political sympathies draw him into direct encounters with Hitler and his circle and into dangerous efforts to rescue Jewish friends from persecution and imprisonment. Upton Sinclair (1878?1968) was an American novelist and reformer best known for his muckraking classic *The Jungle,* whose expose of Chicago?s meatpacking industry helped spur federal food-safety legislation; over a long career he wrote scores of socially engaged novels and tracts attacking industrial exploitation, corrupt media, and political injustice, moved to California where he was active in radical and reform movements, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943 for *Dragon s Teeth.*.

Zustand: Fine. 586 pp., gilt-stamped full black leather (hardcover), a.e.g., moire endpapers, faint wear to top edge page gilt else near fine. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.