The Writings of Bret Harte I The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales with Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers

HARTE, BRET

Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1903

About this Item

Type: Ex-Library Standard Library Edition, Houghton Mifflin, Cambridge, MA, 1903. Introduction by the author. Hardcover Book in Good Condition, no jacket. Original green and stamped gilt floral cloth , top edge giilt, Frontis: Portrait of Bret Harte, 1882, tissue protected, black title on recto; six additional illustrations, also tissue protected. Bindng quite clean, spine sunned to brown, some edges lightly rubbed, tight and solid sewn binding with inner hinge cracked, rough cut. Former owner name and date on endpeper. Internals clean with no markings of any kind, lighttly and evenly toned. Bret Harte, 1836-1902, an American short story writer, essayist, humorist, novelist, and poet, is remembered as a pioneer in Western local-color writing. His writing about the West is often sentimental, with much humor and he had a penchant for showing thieves, vagabonds, and miners as more admirable than law-abiding folk. 444 pages. 8.25 x 5.25 inches. Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, USA. Seller Inventory # 023655

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Writings of Bret Harte I The Luck of ...

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Publication Date: 1903

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Thus.