The Pit: A Story of Chicago. The Epic of the Wheat
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903.
Price: $50.00
Hardcover. Early printing, lacking edition statement but it does have the "J.J. Little" device on copyright page. Decorative red cloth stamped in gilt. Rear hinge cracked, faint dampstain on page foredges and on rear board, small nick in mid-spine, spine slightly cocked, a good only copy.
Item #617053
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