Dragon's Teeth.
From Upton Sinclair To Margaret Sanger
[Sanger, Margaret]. Sinclair, Upton. Dragon’s Teeth. New York City: Published by the Author, (1942).
8vo.; bookplate; preliminaries lightly darkened; red cloth, stamped in silver.
First edition of the uncommon presentation issue, specially bound in red cloth. A presentation copy, inscribed: To Margaret Sanger with sincere regards Upton Sinclair. With Sanger’s bookplate. A major association copy linking two titanic 20th-century radicals.
Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate, and Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle and America’s most prolific leftist writer, were not only political colleagues; they were also co-workers with many mutual acquaintances. Sanger, like Sinclair, socialized in downtown Manhattan, and from 1911 until 1913 the Sanger children went to school at New York City’s Ferrer Center, a bastion of revolutionary activity, with Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Jack London, Man Ray, Upton Sinclair, and Margaret Sanger herself on the faculty.
Clearly, the presence of this inscribed title in Margaret Sanger’s library indicates that the Sanger-Sinclair friendship endured many decades beyond their professional relationship.
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