[Rarebooks] FS: Upton Sinclair's Working Ribbon Copy of WIDE IS THE GATE

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SINCLAIR,  Upton. TYPESCRIPT (Sinclair's Own Working Ribbon  Copy)
of  WIDE  IS  THE  GATE.  (New York):  (Viking  Press)  (1943).  First
Edition.   Complete  text,  1034   pages  continuously  numbered  with
variations;  numbered  consecutively  by chapters.  Placed into  three
large binders.  Sinclair's own working copy, apparently a second draft
and  first  complete  early  copy  to  be  located.  Extensive  pencil
annotations  by  the author with thousands of corrections,  deletions,
and  additions  to the text, from single words to entire  pages.  Many
revisions  greatly  differ from the published novel.  For instance, at
the  end  of the first paragraph after describing Lanny  Budd's  inner
convictions--"...that  thou  hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and  that
My  fear  is not in thee, saith the Lord God of  Hosts"--Sinclair  has
added, then crossed out:  "For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and
burst thy bands; thou saidst, I will not transgress;  when upon  every
high  hill  and  under every green tree thou  wanderest,  playing  the
harlot."  After  a  narrow  defeat  in   a  bitter  campaign  for  the
California governorship, Sinclair created Lanny Budd, "America's self-
diagnosed schizophrenic liberal."  This is the fourth in the series of
eleven  novels about Lanny Budd, the third--  DRAGON'S TEETH  --having
won  the  Pulitzer  Prize. Sinclair considered this  series  the  most
important  part  of his literary production, which also  included,  of
course, THE JUNGLE.  Near Fine                                $7500.00

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