True Blue: Stirring Stories of Naval Academy Life [no. 50, April 22, 1899]

New York: Street & Smith, 1899. 64 pp. 4to. Staple-bound illustrated wrappers [ads on verso] with light chipping to upper corner and head of spine, some toning to pages, else a very good copy. 64 pp. 4to. Upton Sinclair's early literary career was made writing popular fiction, or "dime novels" to support himself while a student at Columbia University. He began writing for Street and Smith, New York publishers of pulp fiction and general interest titles. Sinclair wrote for Army and Navy Weekly using the pseudonym Lieutenant Frederick Garrison, and his writings were called the Mark Mallory stories, and later under the pseudonym Ensign Clarke Fitch for True Blue, where he wrote a small novel every week about life in the navy.