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T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1935. Hardcover. Good. 1935. First Edition Thus. 215 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.

London: T. Werner Laurie Ld, 1935.. 1st British edition. Published in the US under the title "I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked". "This is Sinclair's story of the famous Epic movements and his campaign to end poverty in California, and it is a revelation of what money can do in American politics and what it does do when its privileges are threatened....His book is interesting to English readers, showing as it does the appalling lengths vested interests can go to in America in the way of political bribing, dishonesty and graft." Pp.215/ix(appendix: A Proclamation to the Peopleof California), 38 black & white illustrations, occasional pencil marginal marks and notations and profuse pencil notation to rear endpapers. Publisher's review request slip + 4 page (pro-Sinclair) publisher's printed review entitled "This Cock-Eyed World"(anon) loosely enclosed. Black cloth with green titles to front and spine, black & white photo illustrated dustwrapper a little dusty with edge losses to top and… Leer más

Condition: Fair; edge-wear to boards and surface wear. Head and foot of spine slightly worn, spine is faded. Hinge weakness - cracking to hinges exposing netting Interior is clean without markings. 38 B&W political cartoons. This book records Sinclair's campaign to be Governor of California in 1935 and the End Poverty in California. This is the British edition of "I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked."