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Collected Letters
by Frank Norris
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1986. Letters compiled and annotated by Jess S. Crisler with an introduction by James D. Hart. This is the second time the Book Club has published a collection of Norris letters. The first had been completed in 1956 by Franklin Walker, and this second edition includes all of those letters with new annotations as well as the thirty letters found later and published in the Quarterly Newsletters of the Club. The title page portrait is a wood cut by Rik Olson. Two portraits of Norris, a map, and a reproduction of a letter by Norris, as well as an extensive bibliography, are also included. Printed by Will Henry Powers and Wesley B. Tanner, quarter bound in cloth with paper covered boards and a black spine label with gold lettering. Original plain paper dust jacket. One of 500 copies. Harlan number 182. Fine in a slightly sunned dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Four Rivers Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16361
- Title
- Collected Letters
- Author
- Frank Norris
- Format/Binding
- Quarter cloth with paper covered boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Book Club of California
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1986
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- california-vbf
Terms of Sale
Four Rivers Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Four Rivers Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2018
Boulder, Colorado
About Four Rivers Books, LLC
Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) and a founding member of the Fine Press Book Association.
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