Mcteague: a Story of San Francisco
by Norris, Frank
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Colt Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1941. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards, label to spine, beveled board edges. Limited to 500 copies. Corner/edge wear, minor staining to exterior. Tight and square. ; quarto; 390 pages .
Synopsis
McTeague is an 1899 novel by Frank Norris. The book describes the life of a turn-of-the-century dentist in San Francisco, named McTeague. The narrator never reveals McTeague's first name; he is referred to only as "Mac" by the other characters in the novel. The book was the basis for Erich von Stroheim's film, Greed.
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41379
- Title
- Mcteague: a Story of San Francisco
- Author
- Norris, Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Colt Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1941
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.