The Jungle

New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1906. Hardcover. Fair. Second-state text. Fair, lacking the jacket. Green cloth, rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners, some rubbing to the ink lettering on the spine. Square, firmly bound but with pages 249-253 detached and laid-in, clean otherwise. Sinclair's classic muckraking novel about Jurgis Rudkus and his pursuit of the American Dream in the stockyards and meatpacking plants of turn-of-the-century Chicago.