THE OCTOPUS: A STORY OF CALIFORNIA

by Fran Norris, Benjamin

$1,000 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. Octavo, pp. 1-8 1-3 4-652 653-654: blank , one full page map in text, publisher's decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first printing with the J. J. Little device on the copyright page. The first volume of Norris' unfinished trilogy The Epic of Wheat. THE OCTOPUS is better known than McTEAGUE, although it is a lesser achievement as

• Printing: first

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