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

[Charles Agvent]

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 in 1934, Sinclair created Lanny 
Budd, "America's self-diagnosed schizophrenic liberal," the hero of the 
novels that came to reflect Sinclair's disillusionment and cynicism. 
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. When reviewing 
the Budd series, Perry Miller declared that "the character of Lanny Budd 
is surely one of the most fabulous creations of our time. Possessing the 
insouciance of d'Artagnan, the penetration of Sherlock Holmes, the 
sartorial elegance of Beau Brummel, the gymnastic skill of the late 
Douglas Fairbanks, the ubiquity of Superman ... the sociological 
profundity of Herbert Spencer ... [and] the sexual prowess of a 
Casanova." Last page torn, not affecting text. Near Fine. (#014077)    
     $7,500

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