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Russell & Russell, 1963. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ has some light foxing, chipping, wear around edges, and two stains on the front. DJ has been price clipped. Front endpaper has a bookplate. .

[Berkeley]: Council of The Friends of The Bancroft Library, 1970. Unbound. 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).

Berkeley, Calif.: Friends Of The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley Press, 1970.. 8vo. 4 pp., Soft Covers, Very Good with some creasing. Illustrated. Includes facsimile of petition signed by Frank Norris.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1956. First edition. Cloth. Fine/No dust jacket. Small 4to, 99pp. Paper-covered Boards. 350 copies printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for the Colt Press.

San Francisco. : The Book Club of California. Grabhorn Colt Press., 1956.. First edition. . Decorated hard cover. . Fine copy. . 4to.. Important reference work. Limited edition of 350 copies. Very scarce in this condition.

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