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The Octopus
by [CALIFORNIA FICTION] NORRIS, Frank
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- first
- Condition
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. First Edition. First printing, with the J. J. Little device on copyright page. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth, stamped in gilt; plain endpapers; [viii],652pp; map facing first page of text. Bookplate and 1901 ownership inscription of Adolph Gartenlaub (1854-1914), an Austrian Jewish immigrant turned California fruit packing magnate. Straight and unfaded, lightly rubbed, perforation to cloth at base of spine, front hinge starting: Very Good.
The first part of Norris' incomplete trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat. "A California classic. The story of the struggle of the early wheat farmers of the San Joaquin Valley to be independent, to establish the sort of neighborhoods of farmers that had long been the pattern in the Middle West. Shows what the monopolistic railroad, the 'Octopus,' did to their hope." COAN p75. BAL 15036.
The first part of Norris' incomplete trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat. "A California classic. The story of the struggle of the early wheat farmers of the San Joaquin Valley to be independent, to establish the sort of neighborhoods of farmers that had long been the pattern in the Middle West. Shows what the monopolistic railroad, the 'Octopus,' did to their hope." COAN p75. BAL 15036.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59122
- Title
- The Octopus
- Author
- [CALIFORNIA FICTION] NORRIS, Frank
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Social Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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