Presidential agent
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
Category
Books
Date
1944
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3088005
Summary
Bibliographic description
615,[1]p. . 18cm.. Presentation copy. manuscript on free endpaper: 'Not to be taken out of the house'. manuscript date of reading: June 29 1945. With a letter laid in from Upton Sinclair to Sir Charles Trevelyan (July 25 1945) referring to the veracity of an incident in the book when Chamberlain tells the German government that Britain has no objection to German moves eastward.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Publisher's cloth.
Makers and roles
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)