A wealthy widow from one of New England's most powerful families finds her sheltered world shattered when she befriends an Italian immigrant-a gentle fish peddler whose quiet dignity and radical ideals challenge everything she has been taught to believe. As political hysteria grips the nation, she watches in horror as he and a fellow immigrant are swept up in a murder charge fueled not by evidence but by fear and prejudice. Caught between the drawing rooms of the elite and the streets of the working poor, she risks her ...
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A wealthy widow from one of New England's most powerful families finds her sheltered world shattered when she befriends an Italian immigrant-a gentle fish peddler whose quiet dignity and radical ideals challenge everything she has been taught to believe. As political hysteria grips the nation, she watches in horror as he and a fellow immigrant are swept up in a murder charge fueled not by evidence but by fear and prejudice. Caught between the drawing rooms of the elite and the streets of the working poor, she risks her family's name and her own safety to fight for two men she believes are innocent. But in a city poisoned by xenophobia and class hatred, justice proves elusive-and the machinery of the state grinds relentlessly toward a terrible conclusion.
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Add this copy of Boston: a Novel (Volume I) to cart. $33.08, good condition, Sold by Vashon Island Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vashon, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1928 by Albert & Charles Boni.
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Very Good- No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Volume I only. Bound in green cloth with pictorial upper cover, 8vo, 374pp. (light dulling and wear to outer extremities, ink name to title page).
Add this copy of Boston to cart. $34.75, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2026 by Wildside Press.
Add this copy of Boston to cart. $37.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1929 by Büchergilde Gutenberg.
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Very Good. German edition. Text in German. Tiny owner name on front fly with a couple short tears on second front free endpaper, a few nicks at the spine ends, light soiling on rear board, very good.
Add this copy of Boston to cart. $51.93, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2026 by Wildside Press.
Add this copy of Boston: a Novel to cart. $57.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1928 by Upton Sinclair.
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Near Fine. First edition, Sinclair issue (see below). Printed gray wrappers. Tiny tear at the crown else very near fine. Sinclair's own publication published simultaneously with the A&C Boni edition (curiously Sinclair's issue retains Boni's "first and second printings before publication" notice, presumably arguing for this issue actually being a second printing. Scarce.
Add this copy of Boston: a Novel-Two (2) Volume Set to cart. $137.00, very good condition, Sold by Shoemaker Booksellers rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gettysburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1928 by Albert & Charles Boni.
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Original green cloth covers, very bright and clean. Previous owner's name in pencil on title pg. of vol. 1. DJ's have small pieces missing from head of spine w/ light chipping to corners and tail of spine. Spine sunned. Lightly soiled. Contents very nice.
Add this copy of Boston to cart. $157.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1928 by Albert & Charles Boni.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Two volumes. Near fine in very good dust jackets with several shallow chips and tears, in original about very good printed card board slip case with a little splitting at the seams.
Add this copy of Boston: a Novel to cart. $207.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1929 by T. Werner Laurie Ltd.
Add this copy of Boston, a Novel to cart. $282.00, good condition, Sold by Resource for Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ivoryton, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1928 by Albert & Charles Boni.
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Good. Authors signature on FFEP of vol. two. New York, Albert & Charles Boni, 1st Ed., 1928, two vols., 8vos, 755pp; green cloth with pictorial covers. Lacking slipcase and wrappers. Hinges cracked, edge rubbing with corners bumping, first several leaves of vol. one held by one string, small ink stains to one leaf, toning to text blocks, owners signature on copyright page of vol. two. Well packaged, ships with tracking.
