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Harte, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood and Co., Boston, 1871.
Price: US$6.12 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 152pp. Slight general wear, spine edges frayed, spine color faded. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems By Bret Harte. Fields, Osgood, & Co., Boston, 1871.
Price: US$7.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Normal scuffs, soils and edge wear; a decent readable copy. 152 pages.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Bret Harte. Poems. Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871.
Price: US$7.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871.
Price: US$9.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. No dust jacket. Minor cover wear. Clean unmarked text. Tight binding. ** WE SHIP DAILY (Mon-Fri) ** Free Tracking Information
Seller: Southern Maryland Books, Waldorf, MD, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems. James R Osgood & Co, (1870), Boston, 1871.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: First edition; mixed state, with F&O (Fields, Osgood) colophon on spine, but JRO on title page, Fields, Osgood ad for "Luck of Roaring Camp, corrrect T. P. K. , contains "Dickens in Camp". Original maroon star-patterned pebbled cloth, beveled edges, stamped gilt lettering, 152 pp. Hardcover, very good+. Corners rubbed, three or four 1/4 inch nicks at head and foot of spine, darkened along edges of textblock, paper lightly age yellowed, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked; probably never really read. Modern first; poetry; western.
Seller: Frost Pocket Farm - IOBA, Fleetville, PA, U.S.A.
HARTE, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$13.99 + shipping
Description: First edition, first state with STK on page 136; damp stain on corner of first few pages; spine bumped. Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth with gilt
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Harte, Bret.. POEMS.. Fields, Osgood, & Co., Boston: 1871., 1871.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Description: 152p. One leaf trimmed at margins. 16mo. in 8's. Original full green cloth binding, lettered in gold. Small loss at extremities. Hardbound. First Edition. BAL 7253. POETRY2 BOX 1 x bx2 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems [Hardcover] Harte, Bret. Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871.
Price: US$14.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: very tight and solid vg for its age
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems by Bret Harte. Fields, Osgood, & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$15.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 152 p.; 18 cm. Red-brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; facsimile author's signature gilt-stamped on front board and blind-stamped on back board. Board edges are bevelled. Dark brown endpapers. First Edition. BAL 7253 (printing no. 2) with "S.T.K." on p. 136, later corrected to "T.S.K." A former owner embellished the front endpapers with clippings of 4 poems, including The Phantom Army by Bret Harte. There are 2 more poems attached to either side of a blank leaf preceding the back endpapers, including The Humors of Misconception by Harte. Attached to the back free endpaper is a clipping about the death of Bret Harte. In Good+ Condition: ends of spine are frayed with some loss; back joint starting to separate at head of spine; edges rubbed; occasional light soiling; solid.
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
HARTE, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood, & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later. Very good, book has slight fraying of spine and corners of cover, name of former owner inside front endpaper, foxing of pages. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. POEMS. Fields, Osgood & Company, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$18.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 152 pages; 1st issue with Fields, Osgood monogram and S. T. K on page 136. Some sunning to spine, light rubbing and wear to covers. Small spot on front cover.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. POEMS. Fields, Osgood & Company, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 152 pages; Some edgewear, rubbing, and spotting to the brown cloth covers with evidence of a possible sticker or book plate removal to the inside rear cover. Book is first issue. S. T. K. Obit March 4, 1864 on page 136. Previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems By Bret Harte. James R. Osgood & Company, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$24.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Printed in the first year that this book was published, but lacks first issue points (S.T.K. for T.S.K. on p. 136 has been corrected; JR Osgood Colophon on title page instead of Fields & Osgood); spine colophon is also for J R Osgood. Original rust cloth binding publisher's binding with gilt spine and cover lettering, beveled edges, embossed signature on rear cover; brown end papers; addvertisement for "The Luck of Roaring Camp" on a preliminary leaf is for Fields, Osgood and Co. There is a tiny tear to the top of the spine, else a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 152 pages
Seller: Peninsula Books, Traverse City, MI, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems. By Bret Harte. Fields, Osgood & Co., Boston, 1871.
Price: US$26.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1871. 1871 printing, book originally published in 1870. Collection of Harte's poems with a Western theme. Note on the front free endpaper and on the preliminary blank that the book was a gift to someone at Christmas 1870 on the Yacht or Schooner Ionian. Brown cloth over beveled boards, 152 pages, advertisment bound in at front. Covers very worn and unevenly faded, chipping to the spine head, hinges good, binding just a little shaken but with no loosened pages, pages clean with the aforenoted inscriptions, no other markings, some very light occasional foxing. Residue of unscented talcum powder in some areas from the previous owner, who treated her books with the stuff to keep them dry in storage - we removed what we could. A worn copy with an interesting past. Hard Cover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems by Bret Harte. Fields, Osgood & Co., Boston, MA, 1871.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1871. Dark green binding cloth, boards beveled, gold decor. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 152 pages. 6166
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems By Bret Harte. Fields, Osgood & Co., Boston, 1871.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Corners. spine-ends frayed. pages lightly toned. binding shaken. 1st edition / 1st state. Good-/ brown cloth with gilt / bevel edges rubbed / wear at
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, MA, 1871.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Description: 12mo. 152 pp. First Edition, 2nd State, 1871. No Jacket, As Issued. Owner's ex libris plate on front paste down. Inked name on ffep and penciled name on prelim. Only the slightest external wear with age-toned text block, and partially foxed prelims. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 5" x 7". Brown textured boards with beveled edges, facsimile author's signature gilt-stamped on front board and blind-stamped on back board, and dark brown end papers. F&O (Fields, Osgood) colophon on spine, but JRO on title page, Fields, Osgood ad for "Luck of Roaring Camp" at front, and corrected T. S. K. p. 136. In mylar protector. Size: 12mo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret.. Poems.. Fields Osgood & Co., Boston, 1871.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Duodecimo, brown cloth sunned on the spine which is worn at the ends, gold lettering,152 pp. Wear to the spine. With S.T.K. on page 136 and with the Fileds, Osgood mongram at the base of tghe spine and on the title page. Which issue this is is not clear.
Seller: Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co. 1871, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No Jacket, as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First edition, second issue. Some signs of slight rubbing to the original gilt stamped green cloth at the top and bottom of the spine and the edges of the beveled boards. Otherwise, overall, a very attractive book in very good condition. Binding tight. Pages clean. 152 pages. Very hard to find.
Seller: Arch Bridge Bookshop, Bellows Falls, VT, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. POEMS. Boston:Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston:Fields, Osgood & Co. 1871. 1st edition, with Publisher monogram to title page and S. T. K. for T. S. K. on page 136. 152pp. Hardcover. Green boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with wear along edges, spine ends starting to fray and edge points worn. Gilt on spine dulled. Internally, a large bookplate to the inside front board of John Amory Lowell, but otherwise a very good clean copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret.. Poems. First issue of BAL 7253 in half calf gilt.. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co,, 1871.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue with Fields, Osgood & Co. imprint & with S.T.K. for T.S.K. on p.136. 8vo, pp. 152. Contemporary three-quarter calf & marbled boards, gilt paneled back in six compartments with gilt corner & center ornaments, burgundy & black leather gilt lettering pieces in the second & forth, five raised bands, marbled edges & endpapers. Very good+ clean bright copy with some natural rubbing & minor wear to edges & extremities. Sheets clean, unmarked, complete. BAL 7253. H4827
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood' & Co., Boston, 1871.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Embossed green/gilt cloth hardback - a tiny mark on rear cover/front cloth very slightly "lifted"/minimally scuffed edges. 152pp. Dulled page edges. Brown inside covers/eps. The inside front cover features a sepia picture of Harte from a photograph of 1861, this along with cuttings advertising other copies of Harte's 1871 "Poems"; the fep is also covered with other cuttings, advertising both "Poems" and other works by Harte. The inside front cover is very slightly marked. A very occasional mild page blemish. Considering its age, this is a Good copy.
Seller: Makovski Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
Harte, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood & Co, 1871.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A good copy with some rubbing and fading to cloth. Small 8vo 152 BAL #7253, state 1 of imprint (all points noted). With additional photograph tipped on verso of front free endpaper (probably as protection).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. POEMS By Bret Harte. Fields, Osgood & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$66.37 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Small bookseller sticker. Tear to FEP crown at gutter.1st issue Green Cloth, with pub. Monogram an title page, and "S. T. K" for "T. S. K' on page 136.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
HARTE, Bret. POEMS. Fields, Osgood, & Co., Boston, 1871.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Original purple cloth with gilt lettering. BAL 7253: Printing 1. Pencil ownership name dated 1871 on front blank. Mild sunning to the spine which has light wear at the head. Near Fine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Harte, (Francis) Bret. Poems. By Bret Harte. James R. Osgood, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boston: James R. Osgood, 1871. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition; the Second Issue, with corrected text and "Late.Fields Osgood" on Title Page. A lovely copy, this one issued in the green version of Osgood's uniform binding of Harte's works. Clean text; 152 pages. Period signature (1872) on the Title Page and a Front endpaper. Very mild rubbing to the corners and the spine ends. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co. 1871, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No Jacket, as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. True first edition, first issue. Fields and Osgood's monogram on title page and "S.T.K" for "T.S.K." on page 136. Some signs of slight rubbing to the original gilt stamped green cloth at the top and bottom of the spine and the edges of the beveled boards; a minor stain on the advertisement page and some extremely light foxing on the title page. Otherwise, overall, a very attractive book in very good condition. Binding tight. Pages clean.
Seller: Arch Bridge Bookshop, Bellows Falls, VT, U.S.A.
HARTE, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. Green cloth. vi, 152pp. Very good. First edition, with publisher's monogram on title page and "S.T.K." instead of "T.S.K." on page 136.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. POEMS. Fields, Osgood & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small Octavo. First Issue with Publisher's monogram on title page and "S. T. K. OBIIT" on p. 136. 152 pp. Bound in green cloth over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; brown coated endpapers; a clean bright copy, with very light wear at extremities.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret.. Poems.. Boston:Fields,Osgood. 1871. Hardcover., 1871.
Price: US$98.00 + shipping
Description: 1st. ed. 1st.issue-S.T.K. on page 136-purple binding-F O title page and spine v.g. binding mild wear. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
Harte, (Francis) Bret. Poems By Bret Harte. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition; the Second Issue, with corrected text and "Late.Fields Osgood" on Title Page. A lovely copy, this one issued in the maroon cloth version of Osgood's uniform binding of Harte's works. Beveled edges; gilt lettering on spine, with reproduced Harte signature on the front cover. Clean text; 152 pages. Period gift inscription (1870) on the 2nd free endpaper. Armorial bookplate on the front paste-down. Mild rubbing to head and foot of spine; faint stain on rear cover. A solid and attractive copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret (1836-1902). Poems (Americana). Fields, Osgood, & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$112.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Contemporary rebind with marbled paper and half-calf over boards, title and decorations in gilt onto five band spine, all edges marbled, 12mo, 6-3/4" tall, pp. vi, 152. Has the first issue points of "S.T.K." for "T.S.K." at head of poem on p.136, and the publisher's imprint on the title page. Binding with heavy wear, head of spine pulled, boards exposed at edges, hinges cracked, joints started, ffep cracking near gutter. An early work by Harte and his fifth publication. Ref. Johnson/Blanck, 4th ed.; McBride, 3rd ed.
Seller: Harropian Books, IOBA, Nelson, BC, Canada
Harte, Bret. POEMS. Boston: Fields & Osgood, 1871, 1871.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. First state with Fields and Osgoods monogram on title page and S.T.K. for T.S.K. on page 136. 8vo., pp. 152. Gilt decorated wine colored cloth covered bevelled boards sunned at the spine. Nice copy.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Harte, Bret. Poems.. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1871., 1871.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Description: First printing, first edition. Page 136 reads, "S.T.K. Obiit.". Green decorative cloth, gilt letter front cover and spine. Bright and clean with minimum wear on spine. Better than Very Good.
Seller: Trillium Antiquarian Books, Peterborough, ON, Canada
BRET HARTE. POEMS. FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO., BOSTON, 1871.
Price: US$120.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth binding, covers beveled with authors name stamped with gold lettering on the front cover and title, author, nd publisher stamped with gold lettering on the spine. Small bookstore sticker inside front pastedown (Burtons), along with the bookplate of the former owner stating private library of Verlin L. Sweeley. I was able to find out the following information on the previous owner: "Sweeley, Verlin L - Verlin L. Sweeley, 75, born in Adel, Iowa, Dec. 19, 1899, died at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, California Apr. 23rd after a brief illness.He was the son of Vic. T. and Mary Gilbreath Sweeley. His father, lifelong resident of Adel, published the Dallas Co. Record until his death in 1920. Mr. Sweeley and his mother published the paper until 1929 when they sold it and purchased the Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa, He was a charter member of the Adel Rotary Club, a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Christian Church. He was also a charter member of the Lenox Rotary Club. After selling the Lenox Time Table he was for twenty-five years an Internal Revenue Agent in Council Bluffs, Shenandoah and Des Moines, Iowa. He retired in 1967 and moved to Redwood City, Calif. He was an active member of the Redwood City Friends of the Library, doing volunteer work with talking machines for the blind; active in the local National Association of Retired Federal Employees, a lifetime member of Tri-Centum Lodge No. 300, A.F. & A.M., Shenandoah, Iowa, the Za-Ga-Zig Shrine, Des Moines, Iowa. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs R. V. (Margaret) Clark, San Carlos, Calif., Mrs. L. E. (Mildred) Derrick, Burlingame, California, an aunt Mrs. B. J. (Blanche) Mclntyre of Minneapolis, Minn., a nephew, Norman R. Clark, San Jose, California. Details of the services were not included in the notice. Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday May 6, 1976. There is a nice smal picture of Bret Harte glued to the front free-endpaper. There is a one page ad before the title page (Luck of Roaring Camp). This is a FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING AND CONTAINS THE FIELDS, OSGOOD MONOGRAM ON THE TITLE PAGE AND "S.T.K. FOR T.S.K. ON PAGE 136. Bokk is clean, complete, and tight.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
HARTE (Francis) Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood & Co 1871, 1871.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: original cloth, spine bumped and chipped with minor loss at extremities, pencil ownership signature, joints cracked, good. first edition; 152 pages; keywords: poetry; first issue; BAL 7253
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Bret Harte. Poems. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 152 pp. Hardcover, rebound in morocco over cloth, top edge gilt, by Macdonald. The corners of the binding rubbed. Old catalogue description tipped to an initial blank. A few marginal blemishes.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: HARTE, BRET. Poems, Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1871.12mo, first edition (first printing with "S.T.K." typo on p. 136), pp. vi, 7-152, purple cloth boards with beveled edges and gilt lettering and F&O colophon on spine, gilt Harte signature on front, label on free front endpaper identifying this as part of the Estelle Doheny Collection of American Literature. Doheny, wife of the oil baron played by Daniel Day Lewis in "There Will Be Blood," amassed a valuable collection that was dispersed in auctions after she died in 1988. Doheny acquired the book from Frederick W. Skiff, another voracious collector, based in Portland, Ore. His bookplate, an elaborate sporting pictorial, is on the front pastedown (see below). This plate was designed by W.F. Hopson and is a small gem of American graphic art. Frank Weitenkampf, in "American Graphic Art," called Hopson's bookplates "that combination of variety in treatment with dignity and restraint in expression which produces the happiest results in these marks of bibliophilic proprietorship" (p. 261, Macmillan 1924 revised edition). The Harte book is BAL 7253.Condition of this book:Very good with sunned spine and a few spots and bubbles to the cloth. Size: 12mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; United States; 19th century; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53036.
Seller: Rarities etc., Warwick, NY, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems. Osgood, & Co,, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Third issue of the 1st Edition with spine fading and wear to the top of the spine, scattered bits of staining and offsetting from several inserted newspaper clippings, but a fascinating copy none-the-less because of two bookplates of I.W.Lees and and his inscription to his daughter and her signature and the date "Jan 17th, 1871" .Isaiah W. Lees was an Englishman who first came to San Francisco in 1848, was hired as a policeman in 1854 and rose to be Chief Of Police. Harte arrived in 1853 and after an unsuccessful effort at gold mining worked briefly as a stagecoach guard for Wells Fargo. Although there is no evidence the two crossed paths it is an interesting association between two early Gold Rush personalities who went on to fame and fortune in their respective fields. AND I can fine no other example of his signature.
Seller: Recycled, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition first issue with F.O. monogram on the title page and S. T. K for T. S. K on p. 136, pp. 152. BAL 7253. Full gilt lettered and blind decorated brown morocco by Macdonald and Sons with their pallet signature at the top of the verso of the front free endpaper. Back in six blind fillet paneled compartments, gilt lettered in the second, blind center ornaments in the rest. Blind double borders with cross corners enclosing blind arabesque center on both sides of beveled boards, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Fine clean fresh copy. Sheets clean, unmarked, complete. H10111 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. 152pp. 8vo. BAL 7253 Original cloth, spine sunned, Signed: "Benj. F. Thomas/ Jan 1, 1871/ "Happy New Year'/ GWB."
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
HARTE, BRET. Poems. James R. Osgood & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$156.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, later printing, small 8vo, pp. 152; spine a little sunned, else a very good copy in orig. brown cloth. Apparently an unrecorded printing, with no Fields-Osgood monogram on title and with the corrected text on p. [136]; but with the Fields Osgood (not James R. Osgood) monogram on the spine. See BAL 7253 where it states: "All examined James R. Osgood printings have the corrected caption on p. [136] and the JRO monogram on the spine." Contains Harte's tribute to Charles Dickens, 'Dickens in Camp'.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Bret Harte. Poems. Fields,, Osgood, and Co., Boston, 1871.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Poems. By Bret Hart. Printed in Boston by Fields, Osgood, and Co. 1871, 152 pp, 7 x 5 , 8vo, hardcover green cloth. In good condition, with light rubbing and wear across covers and spine. Hinges remain in good condition and text block is bound well with minor wear. Markings and marginalia. 2 bookplates on front pastedown. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce and nicely preserved 1st edition of the poetical works of American short story writer Bret Harte (1836-1902). FORN-ABE-MSB-0923-aj0492
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: HARTE, BRET. Poems, Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1871.12mo, first edition (first printing with "S.T.K." typo on p. 136), pp. vi, 7-152, green cloth boards with beveled edges and gilt lettering and F&O colophon on spine, gilt Harte signature on front, label on free front endpaper identifying this as part of the Estelle Doheny Collection of American Literature. Doheny, wife of the oil baron played by Daniel Day Lewis in "There Will Be Blood," amassed a valuable collection that was dispersed in auctions after she died in 1988. Doheny acquired the book from Frederick W. Skiff, another voracious collector, based in Portland, Ore. His bookplate, an elaborate sporting pictorial, is on the front pastedown (see below). This plate was designed by W.F. Hopson and is a small gem of American graphic art. Frank Weitenkampf, in "American Graphic Art," called Hopson's bookplates "that combination of variety in treatment with dignity and restraint in expression which produces the happiest results in these marks of bibliophilic proprietorship" (p. 261, Macmillan 1924 revised edition). The bookplate is in its first state, with "West Haven" (Conn.) given as Skiff's residence, rather than the later "Portland." The Harte book is BAL 7253.Condition of this book:Near fine, bright, with some rubbing at the upper spine. Size: 12mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; United States; 19th century; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53035.
Seller: Rarities etc., Warwick, NY, U.S.A.
HARTE, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood, & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$192.50 + shipping
Description: Second printing, with "FO" monogram on title page and foot of spine, and "S.T.K." for "T.S.K." in caption on p.136; but gathered in eights (while the first issue was gathered in sixes). Octavo (18cm); emerald green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and author's facsimile signature in gilt on front cover and in blind to rear cover; brown endpapers; vi,[7]-152pp. Base of spine gently nudged, a few faint foxed spots to right edge of textblock, else a fresh, Fine copy. Handsome early work by the American short story writer and poet, a Johnson's High Spot. BAL 7253.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
HARTE, Bret (1836-1902). Poems. Fields, Osgood, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$199.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing (of three), per BAL, with FO monogram on title page and foot of spine and S.T.K. for T.S.K. in caption p. 136. Small 8vo: vi,7-153pp. Original green publisher's C cloth (also issued in orange and purple cloth, no priority noted), spine and upper cover stamped in gilt, beveled edges, chocolate clay-coated end papers. A Fine, bright copyâ"superb. BAL 7253. Kozlay Collection, 58 (identifying this as the first issue). Johnson High Spots, p. 37 (also calling this the first issue). Collects new and previously published poems, including "To the Pliocene Skull" and "Her Letter," as well as Harte's tribute to Dickens, "Dickens in Camp" and two of his renowned Civil War Poems, "Reveille" and "How Are You, Sanitary?". Harte's breakthrough came was with the publication three years earlier of "The Luck of Roaring Camp," and although his reputation today rests on the handful of stories he wrote for the Overland in the two and a half years before his triumphant return to the East in 1871, he had a strong contemporary reputation as a poet, based on his Civil War poems and on his equally successful comic and satiric poems in dialect, eight of which are also collected here. Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition,carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Harte , Bret.. Poems.. Fields ,Osgood Co. 1871., 1871.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition , first issue of the book with the Fields Osgood monogram and S.T.K. for T.S.K. on page 136. This copy is near fine in the original carmine binding with authors name in gilt stamped on the front cover. A sharp and clean copy. Very scarce.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
HARTE, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, terra cotta cloth. Boston: Fields Osgood, 1871. First Edition. First Issue, with "S.T.K." on page 136. A Johnson "High Spot". A near fine, solid copy.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. [2], 17, [3] pp., plus 2 pp. publisher's ads. Frontisp. woodcut engraving, 7 woodcut engraved plates. Salmon-coloured illustrated printed softcovers, woodcut engraved illust. front cover (minor soiling, spotting on front cover, very minor chipping foot of spine, edgewear), still VG- copy. First illustrated edition of Harte's satirical poem, Plain Language from Truthful James (1870), which became the hallmark of the Chinese Exclusion movement, and offered key vocabulary for the anti-Chinese sentiments which continued to grow through the end of the 19th century. Harte composed the poem primarily looking to offer a colourful anecdote of life in the West, draw poker and the Chinese immigrants building the railroads, mining, and running laundries and businesses in California mining camps, intended primarily as a playful commentary on a familiar California scene. After its' publication in the Overland Monthly, it received wide attention in the East, which used Harte's poem as a means by which to fan waves of violent prejudice and hostility towards Chinese and other Asian immigrants. See; McCellan, The Heathen Chinee: A Study of American Attitudes Toward China, 1890-1905 (1971), pp. 45-69.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. `. BAL 7253 Original green cloth, bevelled boards. Slight snag at head of spine, else very good plus
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems. Fields, Osgood & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. 152pp. 8vo. BAL 7253 Original green pebbled cloth. Bookplates of Ambrose Ives Upson, New York City and Clara & Irwin Strasburger
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. [1836-1902]. POEMS. Osgood, & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Harte, Bret. [1836-1902]. POEMS. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. 8vo., 152pp. Gilt stamped maroon cloth covered boards, beveled edges; brown endpapers. A near fine copy, moderately faded at the spine. First edition, First issue. With Fields Osgood Monogram on T.P. S.T.K. for T.S.K. on pg. 136. Blanck 7253. Merle Johnson Hight Spot of American Literature.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$207.89 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original tan cloth, lettered in gilt, Boston, Fields, Osgood and Co. The first issue with S.T.K. on p. 136. Ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper and title page, spine fading, otherwise an excellent copy.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Harte, Bret. POEMS. Fields, Osgood, & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Description: small 8vo. Bound in green boards, gilt lettering, Beveled edges. iv, 152 pages. First edition first issue with the error S.T.K. for T.S.K. in caption, p.136. BAL 7253. A near fine copy. Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. With reproduced Harte signature on the front cover. Bound in green boards, gilt lettering, Beveled edges
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Poems.. Fields, Osgood, & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue with the publisher's monogram on title-page and foot of spine, and the error "S.T.K." for "T.S.K." in the caption on page 136. BAL 7253. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, brown endpapers. In very good condition with a closed tear to the crown of the spine. Bookplates. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise case. American author and poet Bret Harte is best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret (1836-1902). Poems [first and second issues]. Fields, Osgood, & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Description: First state of the first edition, with correct issue points on spine, title page, and page 136, together with a second state copy. The pair are housed together in a custom half morocco slipcase. Near Fine. Both the first and second issues of the first edition of this collection of Harte's poems. Both volumes are bound in brown cloth over bevelled-edge boards with gilt-stamped spines and upper boards. First issue copy has minor edge bumps and light rubs, with gilt remaining bright. Second issue copy has minor edge wear, prior owner bookplate, and some darkening to gilt. Both books have sound hinges and endpapers. Original cloth. Duodecimos. 152 pages
Seller: Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. POEMS, with ANS signed by Harte. Fields, Osgood, & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: green, gilt dec. beveled cloth, gilt dec. spine, 152 pages, front endpaper starting, light edge wear and minor spotting to covers, 13 line ALS, double-folded, note with embossed address, attached to front free endpaper, the address on the stationary reads."15,Upper Hamilton Terrace, N.W. " the note reads."May 26/86 , My Dear Mr Abbey, I have only just returned from the South Coast to find your kind note. It gives me great pleasure to be able to accept your pleasanr invitation for the 7th June, to meet our old friend Osgood, Believe me, Yours always, Bret Harte" SEE BAL 7253 . The address on the stationary is that of Harte's close friends in London, Arthur and Anna Van de Velde. The note was written during Harte's tenure as US Consul in Glasgow. During his term as US Consul in Glasgow, Harte was usually in London, pursuing his literary career. CONTENTS: San Francisco, from the sea ; The angelus ; The mountain heart's-ease ; Grizzly ; Madrono ; Coyote ; To a sea-bird ; Her letter ; Dickens in camp ; What the engines said ; "The return of Belisarius" ; "Twenty years" ; Fate -- In dialect. "Jim" ; Chiquita ; Dow's flat ; In the tunnel ; "Cicely" ; Penelope ; Plain language from truthful James ; The society upon the Stanislaus -- Poems from 1860 to 1868. John Burns of Gettysburg ; The tale of a pony ; The miracle of Padre Junipero ; An Arctic vision ; To the Pliocene skull ; The ballad of the Emeu ; The aged stranger ; "How are you, sanitary?" ; The reveille ; Our privilege ; Relieving guard -- Parodies. A geological madrigal ; The willows ; North Beach ; The lost tails of Miletus. Size: 12mo., 17.5 Cm
Seller: Harry E Bagley Books Ltd, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Harte, Bret 1836-1902.. POEMS. Boston; Fields, Osgood & Co.,, 1871.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition first issue. PRESENTATION COPY " To Mattie Zander from Bret Harte S. F. Feb. 1, 1870". 16mo., vi, [7]-152 pp. purple cloth, covers bevelled, brown-coted endpapers. F O monogram on title-page and foot of spine. The error S.T.K. for T.S.K.in caption, p.136. Mattie Zander was a resident of San Francisco and is refered to in "Sixty Years of California Song " as a pupil of author Margaret Blake Alverson. The end paper that contains the presentation and signature of Harte has a dampstain that has faded the ink. Slight fading , dusting and wear to the binding. In a worn leather slip case and cloth wrap around chemise. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
HARTE, Bret. POEMS. BOSTON, FIELDS, OSGOOD, 1871, 1871.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ORIGINAL GILT STAMPED GREEN CLOTH FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. POEMS [Signed]. Fields, Osgood, & Co, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 152 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in full crushed black morocco, with gilt tooling and two red morocco labels to spine. Covers bordered in single gilt rule surrounding gilt scrollwork and floral bouquet corner-pieces. The front board has a central inlay of two fanned "Jack-of-Hearts" playing cards bordered in gilt, with original cloth covers and spine bound in at end. Bret Harte signature appears on stiff card mounted to first blank page. Text block shows scattered mild foxing that is heaviest to preliminaries, and some crinkling to paper to which Harte signature is mounted. First Issue, with the publisher's monogram on title-page and foot of spine, and the error "S.T.K." for "T.S.K." in the caption on page 136. Marbled endpapers. CX Consignment. Shelved in Case 3. "Plain Language from Truthful James" first appeared in the September 1870 issue of Harte's own journal, the Overland Monthly. More commonly known "The Heathen Chinee", it was a satiric parody of anti-Chinese sentiment that unfortunately served to reinforce the existing racism. References: BAL 7253. 1346081. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.