Lot 203
SINCLAIR [There Will Be Blood] Oil ! 3rd printing. 1927

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Upton SINCLAIR [There Will Be Blood] Oil ! A Novel ? third printing.

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Upton Beall SINCLAIR, Jr. (1878-1968).

[There Will Be Blood] Oil ! A Novel … third printing. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5in; 187 x 127mm). Pp. (Occasional light spotting to outer blank margins). Original brown cloth, blocked in yellow on upper cover and spine (light soiling to spine, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: R.H. Macy & Co. Inc. (blindstamp to title); indistinct signature on front pastedown.

Now best known as the basis for Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award-winning film "There Will Be Blood." Starring Daniel Day Lewis. The story is "largely concerned with the social education and disillusionment of the son of an oil tycoon, set against the background of the oil scandals of the Harding Administration. There is also the background of southern California society, movie stars, evangelists, Wobblies, and social reformers of all stripes" (Baird, 2267). See Coan, p.98; see Hanna 3241