The Pit: A Story of Chicago: The Epic of the Wheat
New York: Doubleday, Page, (February)1903.
Price: $75.00
Hardcover. First edition, third printing. Decorative red cloth stamped in gilt. Hinges cracked, owner's gift inscription on front pastedown, offsetting on pages 420-421, spine faded and cocked with ends bumped, a very good copy lacking the dust jacket.
Item #560553
Frank Norris
birth name: Benjamin Franklin Norris
born: 3/5/1870
died: 10/25/1902
nationality: USA
Biography
Novelist and short-story writer who was the first important American author to embrace naturalism. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore