Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Mallette Dean, illustrations. Mliss, A Story by Bret Harte. The Grabhorn Press, San Franci, 1948.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth. 1/300.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reprint, 1948 Edition. Very Good. Limited Edition to 300 copies printed. "Mliss, a story from Bret Harte is from "The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches" first published in 1870 and now reprinted in an edition of 300 copies with initials and illustrations engraved by Mallette Dean". Lacks dust jacket. Hardcover printed boards with a red cloth spine. Boards at rubbed at and bumped at corners; scuffed at back board and lightly bumped at edges. Pages are clean and crisp. Illustrations are bright. NO markings in text. Binding is solid. A very nice copy. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Bret Harte. Mliss, a Story by Bret Harte. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1948.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [ii], 44, [4] pp. plus four full-page color illustrations; folio, quarter red canvas, decorated paper sides, paper title label, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Illustrations by Mallette Dean, inspired by mid-Victorian American primitives. One of 300 copies. With the bookplate of James Strohn Copley (1916-1973), the journalist, newspaperman, and publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune, on the front pastedown (his sale, Sotheby's, June 17, 2010, lot 235). Near fine; contents fine, hinges a touch rubbed. Magee 456.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret; (Grabhorn Press); Mallette Dean. MLISS. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1948.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarter red linen with spine label, colorful decorated paper-covered boards, DW, folio, (4) pages, initials and illustrations engraved by Mallette Dean. One of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press on thick handmade paper. A fine copy, in the original mildly toned, lightly edgeworn DW, in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Mliss, A Story. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG in G/G+ DJ. First Thus. Scarce, especially in jacket. Limited to 300 copies. Very light wear to edges, light discoloration to lower front board, else very nice example. Binding tight and straight, clean and unmarked inside and out. Jacket significantly soiled and discolored, lightly chipped and worn at edges, else intact and in decent shape.
Seller: Nick of All Trades, Penn Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Mliss. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Grabhorn Press, limited to 300 copies. "Mliss, a story by Bret Harte is from 'The Luck of Roaring Camp and other Sketches' first published in 1870." Backed in red cloth with color illustrated paper covers. Title pasted down to spine. Contains color illustrations. Bottom and fore-edge deckled. Very slight shelf wear to bottom edges. Folio, 45pgs. Color illustrations by Mallette Dean created for this book.
Seller: Carl Blomgren Fine Books ABAA, petaluma, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Mliss. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1948.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Folio. Pictorial boards with red cloth spine & paper spine label. 300 copies. Minor edge-wear to covers, else near fine in chipped, original plain white dust jacket. Uncommon in jacket.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Mliss. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1948.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: One of 300 copies printed with hand-set Goudy Modern type. Small folio. 50pp. Initials and 4 full-page illustrations in color, engraved by Mallette Dean. Bibliography. Half red linen and decorated boards, printed paper spine label. Spine ever so slightly faded, but a very fine copy. Mliss was first published in 1870 as part of "The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches." The full-page color illustrations by Mallette Dean were inspired by mid-Victorian American primitives, and printed from various materials including textiles, sand paper, leather and linoleum. A handsome publication. Included in the Exhibition of Western Books (Rounce & Coffin Club). [Grabhorn: 456].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. MLISS, A Story by Bret Harte. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1948.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Prospectus laid in. Folio, light blue and yellow decorated boards, red canvas spine, white and orange paper label printed in black. Illustrated with colored engravings and initials by Mallette Dean. One of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. This story is from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches, first published in 1870. Included in the Exhibition of Western Books (Rounce & Coffin Club). [GB 456] Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles, san diego, CA, U.S.A.