PBA Galleries

Various sizes, all in wrappers. Exhibition catalogues are inscribed by Sinclair.

A broad range of scarce ephemeral material relating to  the author, social reformer, and sometime political activist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1943. There is some duplication. Many of the items relate to his run for governor of California in 1934, both supporting him and attacking him for his socialist and "free love" agenda. There are a number that lay out his EPIC plan (End Poverty In California) that was the cornerstone of his campaign. There are also booklets of fiction, essays, and other literary ventures, as well as political discourse, such as "Peace or War in America" (1941); "Terror in Russia? Two Views" (1938); and "Your Million Dollars... Why in the richest land in the world must one-fifth of the people live on public charity?" (1939). A marvelous gathering of illuminating material from the days when fighting for social justice and socialism was not considered anathematic to our American way of life