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American journalist and novelist (1870–1902) best known for McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) and The Pit (1903). Signed book: The Argonaut Manuscript Limited Edition of Frank Norris's Works, Vols. 1–10. Limited edition, numbered 106/245. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928. Ten hardcovers, 6 x 9. A page from Norris's handwritten manuscript for McTeague: A Story of San Francisco is laid into Vol. I, in part: "…the rifle manufacturer's calendar, and the prim, military chairs. A veritable scene took place between him and his wife before he could bring himself to part with the steel engraving of 'Lorenzo de' Medici and His Court' and the stone pug dog with its goggle eyes.
'Why,' he would cry, 'I've had 'em ever since—ever since I began; long before I knew you, Trina. That steel engraving I bought in Sacramento one day when it was raining. I saw it in the window of a second-hand store, and a fellow gave me that stone pug dog. He was a druggist. It was in Sacramento too. We traded. I gave him a shaving-mug and a razor, and he gave me the pug dog." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG-/None, with sunning to spines and small edge splits to some hinges.
