The Harbor

388pp plus publisher’s adverts at rear. In red cloth-covered boards (boards are faded, lightly soiled, sunned on spine, rounded at corners and spine tips, slight fray at spine head). Remains of ownership sticker on front end paper. Some very light mottling on endpapers, else the text block is neat, clean, bright and tight. The best-known novel by the winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Ernest Poole’s The Harbor was published in 1915 to instant acclaim and remains his most important book. At the heart of the story is Billy, an aspiring writer who struggles to reconcile his sympathy for workers with his middle-class allegiance to capitalist progress.