McTeague: A Story of San Francisco.

NORRIS, Frank.

Item Number: 123089

New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899.

First edition, first printing of Norris’ classic novel with moment as the last word on page 106 and 4 pages of ads headed ‘A New American Author’. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. In near fine condition.

First published in 1899, Frank Norris's McTeague tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty and violence as the result of jealousy and greed. The book was the basis for the films McTeague (1916) and Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924) as well as the 2000 drama film Slow Burn directed by Christian Ford and starring Minnie Driver, James Spader, Stuart Wilson, and Josh Brolin.