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The Octopus
de [CALIFORNIA FICTION] NORRIS, Frank
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. First Edition. First printing, with the J. J. Little device on copyright page. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth, stamped in gilt; plain endpapers; [viii],652pp; map facing first page of text. Straight and tight, with a hint of fading to cloth on spine and a few tiny specks of soil; Very Good+.
The first part of Norris' incomplete trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat. "A California classic. The story of the struggle of the early wheat farmers of the San Joaquin Valley to be independent, to establish the sort of neighborhoods of farmers that had long been the pattern in the Middle West. Shows what the monopolistic railroad, the 'Octopus,' did to their hope." COAN p75. BAL 15036.
The first part of Norris' incomplete trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat. "A California classic. The story of the struggle of the early wheat farmers of the San Joaquin Valley to be independent, to establish the sort of neighborhoods of farmers that had long been the pattern in the Middle West. Shows what the monopolistic railroad, the 'Octopus,' did to their hope." COAN p75. BAL 15036.
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- Librería
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 64225
- Título
- The Octopus
- Autor
- [CALIFORNIA FICTION] NORRIS, Frank
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1901
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Fiction; Labor History; Social Fiction; Rural Labor;
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- First Edition
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- BAL
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Device
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
