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Norris, Frank. McTeague : a story of San Francisco. Colt Press, San Francisco, 1941.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 390 p. : ill. One of five hundred copies of this edition. The marbled-paper covered boards are use-darkened at edges, lower fore-corner worn and slightly exposed, wear to other corners, title label at spine age-toned; inner hinges loose but holding, short (3/4") crack to head of front inner hinge; contents age-toned but clean. This is a satisfactory copy, though good only. 1420 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Norris, Frank. Mcteague: a Story of San Francisco. Colt Press, San Francisco, 1941.
Price: US$34.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth-backed boards, label to spine, beveled board edges. Limited to 500 copies. Corner/edge wear, minor staining to exterior. Tight and square. ; quarto; 390 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
NORRIS, FRANK.. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco.. Colt Press, 1941.
Price: US$35.92 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair hardcover. No DJ. LIMITED EDITION ONE OF 500 COPIES. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show heavy edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Some soiling marks. Bumped corners. Front hinge is cracked and supported with tape.binding still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The 1941 Colt Press edition limited to 500 copies. Some wear to the spine label, else a solid example.
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 550 unnumbered copies. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing, especially the corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (LeRoy V. Brant) on the front pastedown page. The rear pastedown page has a very small inked number. "Grabhorn founded the Colt Press (19381942) in San Francisco with William M. Roth and Jane Swinerton. The press focused primarily on subjects related to California. Notable publications include their first, Lola Montez: The Mid-Victorian Bad Girl in California, by Oscar Lewis (1938) ; Kamehameha, King of the Hawaiian Islands, by Marie Louise Burke (1939) , which was chosen as one of the fifty "Books of the Year" by the American Institute of Graphic Arts; and McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, by Frank Norris (1941). Grabhorn set the type for the press and worked without pay during most of this period. Although she attempted to continue operating the Colt Press single-handedly after Roth left to join the Office of War Information in 1942, the press was forced to close." (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Norris, Frank. McTeague : a story of San Francisco. Colt Press, San Francisco, 1941.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 390 p. : ill. One of five hundred copies of this edition. Quarter cloth over decorative paper covered boards, with beveled edges.Binding somewhat darkened, two small spots to spine, rubbing to spine label, 1/4" closed tear to foot of rear panel, with exposure; edges untrimmed; contents fine. 1400 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Frank Norris. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco. The Colt Press, 1941.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some rubbing and shelf wear on covers and spine, but still bright. Corners bumped and worn. Clean throughout. Some uncut pages.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
NORRIS, FRANK.. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco.. Colt Press, 1941.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy. Reprint edition. Limited to 500 copies issued by Jane Grabhorn and William Matson Roth. Zamorano Eighty 58: "Many literary critics, including Henry L. Mencken, regard McTeague as the greatest of all American novels. While the story is a sordid one, involving the life and loves and mercenary instincts of an unlicensed San Francisco dentist, it contains some masterly descriptions of California's most glamorous city. The book is particularly significant because it marks the first appearance in the United States of realistic fiction of the genre produced by Emile Zola, Maupassant, Stendhal and other European writers." Johnson, High Spots of American Literature p. 60. Powell, California Classics pp. 175-184.
Seller: Darwin Labordo, Books, Sierra Madre, CA, U.S.A.
NORRIS, Frank. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco. The Colt Press, San Francisco, 1941.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Introduction by Charles G. Norris. Illustrations by Otis Oldfield. Small 4to. Quarter vellum with gilt spine lettering and blue patterned paper over bevelled boards. (5pp), 390pp. Line drawings, marbled endpapers. Near fine. Choice copy of this first thus, being a reprint of the grim 1899 fiction about an unlicensed dentist who goes amuck, here introduced by Norris's younger brother and with illustrations. A sexual incident that happens to young August ("Owgooste") at an opera in chapter six so incensed some critics that Norris was forced to rewrite one small section near the end of that chapter in later printings -- but in this edition the original text has been restored. Ironically, in his introduction brother Charles mistakenly notes that "the much criticised episode is included in its original form and may be found at the end of Chapter IV" -- of all the typos! -- and some early owner of this volume circles this wrong Roman numeral in pencil and adds "VI." Rear colophon notes 500 copies "Issued by Jane Grabhorn and William Matson Roth Publishers and Designers" -- and this copy elegantly custom bound in lovely quarter vellum with gilt spine lettering and striking marbled endpapers (the regular edition being brown buckram spine with paper label and paisley print paper over boards).
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.