The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1909.
First Edition. Contemporary romance and novel of intrigue set amongst the smart set. Philips is known for producing one of the most important investigations exposing details of the corruption of the Senate by big businesses, in particular, by the Standard Oil Company. He was among a few other writers during that time that helped prompt President Theodore Roosevelt to use the term “Muckrakers”. Phillips' reputation cost him his life in January 1911, when he was shot outside the Princeton Club at Gramercy Park in New York City. The killer was a Harvard-educated musician named Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, a violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra who came from a prominent Maryland family. Goldsborough believed that Phillips' novel The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig had cast literary aspersions on his family. When confronting Phillips, Goldsborough yelled, "Here you go!" After Phillips collapsed, he yelled, "And here I go!", shooting himself in the head. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket chipped at spine ends.
Price: $275.00