Vandover and the Brute

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First Edition. 8vo. 354, [2] pp. Publishr's orange-brown cloth with gilt lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. Minor wear to extremities; else fine in near fine dust jacket (light wear to extremities, with small chips & short closed tears to spine ends). "Vandover and the Brute" is a posthumously published novel by Frank Norris, written around 1894–1895 but not released until 1914, more than a decade after his death. It’s one of his earliest works, and though rough in form, it’s fascinating as a blueprint for the naturalism and psychological intensity that would define Norris’s later novels like McTeague (1899) and The Octopus (1901)."...a picture of the war that every man wages in his soul with varying success". - dust jacket flap. (Baird and Greenwood 1883; BAL 15046).