Harte, Bret. Cressy. Two volume set.. Macmillan, London, 1889.
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is the true first edition, published by Macmillan in London several weeks before the American edition was published by Macmillan in New York. Two volume set. Blue cloth covers show shelf wear to the spine edges and corners. The corners are lightly bumped. The hinges are tight and the pages are clean. A solid set of the rare first edition of this noted California writer.
Seller: Orrin Schwab Books, Providence, UT, U.S.A.
HARTE, Bret. CRESSY. MacMillan and Co., London, 1889.
Price: US$562.50 + shipping
Description: Original red cloth. BAL 7345: First one-volume edition, published earlier in the year in two volumes. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Harte to J. W. Wheeler "for his admirable services for the/Plaintiff in the case of `Common Sense vs The Good Old Times', with charity(?)" in London, August, 1889. Slightly cocked, spine sunned, tips a bit worn. Very Good
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.