Frank Norris: Collected Letters

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1986 First edition. Limited to 500 copies printed by William Henry Powers and Wesley B. Tanner. Compiled and Annotated by Jesse S. Crisler. 238pp. Woodcut portrait, reproduction, portraits, plates; appendix and bibliography. Red cloth-backed decorated boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. This work is an expansion of the pioneering Letters of Frank Norris, edited by Franklin Walker and published in 1956. Includes 124 letters and fragments (26 never before published) spanning eleven years and documenting Norris' thoughts and personality as he developed into a successful author at the turn of the century. This work includes corrections and amendments to Walker's 1956 study, and thus provides a "new edition" with selective but quite thorough re-editing, expanded notes, corrected commentary, and additional data. Includes annotations for people, places, and events mentioned by Norris, an appendix of forty-one inscriptions by Norris, and a bibliography..