[Item #32041] From Port to Port; or, Clif Faraday in Many Waters. Clarke FITCH, pseud. Upton Sinclair.

From Port to Port; or, Clif Faraday in Many Waters

Philadelphia: David McKay, [1903]. Reprint. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, yellow, blue, and green; [4],ii,[7]-250,vpp.; frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped, some light soiling, spine cloth a bit dulled, else Very Good and sound. Slightly later (1928) gift inscription to front free endpaper.

One of Sinclair's early pseudonymously published juvenalia, forming part of a series of maritime adventure stories for boys featuring Clif Faraday, Naval Cadet from Annapolis. The pseudonym Ensign Clarke Fitch was used by at least three authors, including Sinclair, Enrique H. Lewis, and Weldon J. Cobb (see J. Randolph Cox, The Dime Novel Companion (2000), p. 12). OCLC locates 7 copies as of November, 2016.

Price: $200.00

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