The Pit: A Story of Chicago

Garden City: Doubleday Page, 1903. First Edition. The second book in the author's planned trilogy, titled "The Epic of the Wheat," preceded by "The Octopus" in 1901, although the author died unexpectedly in October of 1902, leaving the third book in the trilogy incomplete.

About Near Fine, bound in red cloth with gilt titles and rule, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Backstrip lightly faded, small rectangular bruise to the front pastedown from an old bookplate, and first and last five leaves slightly wavy at the edges.

[Book #169713]