2 Upton Sinclair first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Jungle (1906) to Dragon's Teeth (1942) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Upton Sinclair title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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The Jungle — 1906 · Doubleday, Page & CompanyPublished 28 February 1906, after serialisation in Appeal to Reason (25 February - 4 November 1905). Two imprints were issued simultaneously from the SAME plates and both are first editions: the trade issue of Doubleday, Page & Company and Sinclair's own subscriber issue under The Jungle Publishing Co. The decisive text point on the Doubleday, Page trade issue is the "1" in the "1906" date on the copyright page…. US 1906. The census is right that both the Doubleday, Page trade issue and Sinclair's simultaneous Jungle Publishing Co. "Sustainer's Edition" — printed from the same plates and published the same day — count as firsts, and both are collected. The census understates the nuance: per Currey the Sustainer's Edition with an integral title leaf ranks EARLIEST of all, above the Doubleday, Page copies, which in turn…. No 1906 book-club issue is documented. The reprint traps are Sinclair's own four later self-published editions (1920, 1935, 1942 and 1945), any of which can be mistaken for an "author's edition" first given that the Jungle Publishing Co. first is itself author-published, plus the ubiquitous later trade reprints. The "1" in the copyright-page date is the working check: broken or battered type means a later state,….
Dragon's Teeth — 1942 · The Viking PressThe copyright page states First Published in January 1942 with no later printings indicated. Red cloth with silver lettering and a silver ship design on the front cover; viii plus 631 pages. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Second of the Lanny Budd series. US Viking 1942 true first, identified by the First Published in January 1942 statement with no further printing notices. Later printings add a printing statement to the copyright page; no significant book-club issue confusion for the first.

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