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Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. (1956). 4to. LIMITED EDITION 1/350 copies. Pamphlet from publisher laid in. General toning to textblock with uneven darkening to paste downs and end papers. Light wear to edges of gently rubbed and toned boards with faint marking to cloth binding. VG.
Published by Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1956
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xiii, 98, [3] pp., frontispiece portrait plus one facsimile, 4to, quarter cloth, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, patterned paper sides, paper title label. One of 350 copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for the Colt Press for the Book Club of California. With the bookplate of James Strohn Copley (1916-1973), the journalist, newspaperman, and publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Very good copy overall; contents fine, spine a touch faded, a few tiny spots at lower front cover corner, small evidence of tape removal from pastedowns. Magee (Grabhorn) 576; Magee (100th Book of Book Club of California) 92.
Published by The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1956. 1 of 350 copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn Press for Colt Press., 1956
Seller: The Bookstall, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Red cloth spine with paper label, and decorative boards, 98 pages. 11 1/4 X 8 1/8 inches. Limited to 350 copies. Spine slightly faded, else Fine.
Published by Council of The Friends of The Bancroft Library, [Berkeley], 1970
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile. One quarto sheet folded to make four pages. Measuring 8¾" x 10" closed. The interior prints a historical background by Franklin Walker, and a facsimile of the petition is laid into an applied pocket. Wrappers with modest soil, very good or better. Norris, who would find fame as an author and journalist, studied at the University of California from 1890 to 1894 with mixed results. In the accompanying petition, according to this document the earliest surviving communication in Norris's collected correspondence, he requests the ability to choose his own college coursework in order to focus on becoming a fiction writer. Issued to celebrate the centennial of Norris's birth. With a program for the 23rd annual meeting of The Friends of The Bancroft Library laid in (horizontal fold and tiny nick else fine).
Published by Printed by the Grabhorn Press for Colt Press and published by The Book Club of California, 1956. One of 350 copies., 1956
Seller: The Bookstall, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8 X 11 inches, cloth spine with paper spine label, decorated paper on boards, 98 pages. Frontis portrait of Norris. Slight rubbing to top and bottom edge of spine, near Fine.
Published by Berkeley, Calif.: Friends Of The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley Press., 1970
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Condition: Good. 8vo. 4 pp., Soft Covers, Very Good with some creasing. Illustrated. Includes facsimile of petition signed by Frank Norris.
Published by The Book Club of California. Grabhorn Colt Press., San Francisco., 1956
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Decorated hard cover. First edition. Important reference work. Limited edition of 350 copies. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Published by The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1956
Seller: The Book Lair, ABAA, Pleasanton, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: good +. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956. 99 pp. Approximately 8 x 11 1/2"; Translucent white paper dustjacket slightly darkened with chips at foot of spine, creases and small wormhole, in good + condition; Decorated boards with red cloth spine, limited edition of 350 copies and printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for Colt Press as stated in the colophon, photograph frontispiece, book plate on front paste-down endpaper, in near fine condition. Frank Norris (1870 - 1902) was an American journalist and author who is best known for his novel "McTeague", written in 1899. He was a member of the Bohemiam Club of San Francisco during the Gold Rush days. As a journalist, he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle and McClure's and traveled quite a bit through South Africa and Cuba. He died quite young after an appendicitis attack.
Published by San Francisco: Book Club of California ., 1923
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. 4to. 12 folders, as issued in quarter morocco chemise and slipcase, a little worn. Ex libris of David Anderson. Facsimile letters with commentaries by notables of 1935. 1) George Sterling (Robinson Jeffers). 2) Bret Harte (George R. Stewart, Jr). 3) Frank Norris (Franklin Walker). 4) Richard Henry Dana (James D. Hart). 5) John Muir (Charles Keeler). 6) Henry George (Howard Jay Graham). 7) Joaquin Miller (Juanita Miller). 8) Josiah Royce (B. H. Lehman). 9) Mark Twain (C. S. Wood). 10) Clarence King (Francis P. Farquhar). 11) Edward Rowland Still (Aurelia H. Reinhardt). 12) Jack London (Charmian London).