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Bret Harte; Mark Twain. Sketches of the Sixties. John Howell, San Francisco, CA, 1927.
Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Brown boards with cloth spine. Ex-library with usual markings. 3 " tear along side of spine (in the middle) and corners worn through. Interior pages in very good condition. No jacket.
Seller: Burke's Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Bret Harte & Mark Twain. Sketches of the Sixties. John Howell, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 1927.
Price: US$24.74 + shipping
Description: FINE/good. Tan boards, canvas cloth spine. Re-publication of classic Twain and Harte writings. [B57]
Seller: Sierra Rose Antiques, Minden, NV, U.S.A.
BRET HARTE AND MARK TWAIN. SKETCHES OF THE SIXTIES. JOHN HOWELL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA., 1927.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description:
Seller: Nemona Collectables, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.50 + shipping
Description: xxi+228p., illustrated endpapers, tipped-in frontispiece, title page designed by Edwin Grabhorn, introduction, preface to new edition, bibliography, illustrated with plates and facsimiles, second revised and expanded edition in publisher's original cloth-backed brown papered boards with paper label affixed to spine. Lacks the jacket, boards are irregularly sunned, expect a faint small dampstain to the top margin of front endsheets. A nicely designed book in pleasant condition.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret and Mark Twain. Sketches of the Sixties. John Howell, San Francisco, 1927.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "Being forgotten material now collected for the first time from The Californian, 1864-67". Second edition with new material and illustrations." 228 pages, bibliography. Frontis copy of newspaper tipped on. Brown boards with a couple of small corner bumps. Dust jacket has rubs at fold and two edge chips (1/4 and 3/4 inches),
Seller: Old Algonquin Books, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret; Twain, Mark. SKETCHES OF THE SIXTIES. John Howell, San Francisco, 1927.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: San Francisco: John Howell, 1927, xxi, 228 pp. Burgandy paper hardcover, internally clean, no marks. Good + condition.
Seller: Terra Firma Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret; Twain, Mark. SKETCHES OF THE SIXTIES. John Howell, San Francisco, 1927.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, xxi, 228 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine beige with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Mild chipping to head of spine, edges, and corners of dust jacket. Rubbing and light tearing to edges and hinges. Some scuffing and staining. Rubbing to edges of boards. Fore edge of textblock deckled. Light age toning throughout. Shelved in Case 13. 1376280. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Bret Harte and Mark Twain. Sketches of the Sixties. John Howell, San Francisco, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in a Very Good jacket. 1st Printing. Inscribed by Warren R. Howell on the half title page.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret; Twain, Mark; Howell, John (editor). Sketches of the Sixties. John Howell, 1927.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter cloth and boards. Illustrated endpapers. Tipped-in frontispiece. Signed, inscribed by the publisher, John Howell, in 1936. A couple of small spots to the upper page edges. Covers with light wear. Interior is tight and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$52.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "This 6.5 x 9.5 inch, 228 page hardcover book is the 1927 reprint by John Howell as indicated on the title page. The copyright page tells how John Howell published the first print in 1926 and then added additional material and illustrations for this 1927 second edition. Ed Grabhorn, who with his brother Robert, had just arrived in California as young printers from the Midwest, designed the title page for this edition. This copy is in very good condition with the mauve paper covers still tight but showing wear at the corners. The spine is somewhat sunned with just a bit of chipping to the paper spine label, and some wear to the spine crown. The binding is still tight. The interior text shows some bookseller's notations on a front free endpaper as well as a previous owner's bookplate in the same location. Although these notations and bookplate are on the pastedown and front endpaper, neither obscure the illustration on these pages where there is a full volume illustration and description depicting Steamer Day in San Francisco, 1866. The frontispiece has the tipped-in facsimile of "The Californian," where the text sketches of the 60's are reprinted in this volume. John Howell was the eminent bookseller in San Francisco and in this volume he is publishing his own titles drawn from the rarities at his disposal. This volume does show shelf wear but overall the paper on the boards is in very good condition and the text pages are near fine. 228 pages."
Seller: JDBFamily, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Tipped-in frontis. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 228 pps.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition, with "new material and illustrations." Origianl paper-covered boards over cloth spine with mildly chipped printed label on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret and Twain, Mark.. Sketches of the Sixties.. San Francisco, John Howell, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$63.00 + shipping
Description: San Francisco, John Howell, 1927, second edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. This second (and best) edition includes illustrations and "forgotten material now collected for the first time from The Californian 1864-67," introduction by the publisher, John Howell, title page by Edwin Grabhorn, front and rear pastedowns and endpapers show "Steamer Day in San Francisco, 1866--As Pictured by Edwin Jump. Fine in a very good plus jacket.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Second edition with New Material and Illustrations. Frontispiece and plates, title page by Edwin Grabhorn. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 3541 Original cloth-backed mauve boards, printed paper label on spine, pictorial endpapers. Small rip in upper joint, minor rubbing, else very good Frontispiece and plates, title page by Edwin Grabhorn. 1 vols. 8vo Second edition with New Material and Illustrations.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret & Twain, Mark. Sketches of the Sixties. John Howell, San Francisco, 1927.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Description: With a signed presentation inscription from the publisher, John Howell, dated 1946. Being forgotten material now collected for the first time from The Californian 1864-67. 8vo, 228 pp, b&w illus. Quarter tan cloth with red boards. Title in black on off white spine label. Covers are immaculate, very good +. Pictorial dj with title in dark brown on off white at front cover and in dark brown on tan dj spine. Dj is slightly dusty and rubbed at spine, o/w very good +; protected by mylar. Internally, pages bright and clean, very good.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 228 pp. Hard Cover. Tan Cloth with Red Boards. Very Good. Illustrated End Papers. Second Edition with New Material and Illustrations.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo., Brown Cloth, Dust Jacket Good with tears, minor losses, staining, else VG+. 115 pp., Good with losses at corners of corners, edge wear, some scribbles on covers and inside cover, book's previous owner's signatures on title page and inside cover, else VG. Engravings.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth-backed boards, paper label to spine.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.81 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second edition, with additional material. With a signed presentation inscription from the Publisher. Tall 8vo., orig. cloth backed boards, xxii, 228pp. Top edge of rear board very slightly faded o/w a fine copy. BAL 3541, "Contains material not in the first edition of 1926, "Note on Mark Twain" " A Fair Hit" & "Wicked Mark Twain."
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Second edition of the compiled uncollected materials of Twain and Harte from The Californian. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raise gilt bands, pictorial endpapers, gilt topstain, frontispiece of page one of the first number of The Californian, illustrated. From the library of William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixonâs campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixonâs 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column âOn Languageâ in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safireâs âmagnum opus,â Safireâs Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. In very good condition. The Californian was started in May 1864 by publishers P.J. Thomas, A.A. Stickney and John Collner. Charles Henry "Inigo" Webb was the first editor, and Fitz Hugh Ludlow was one of the first contributors. Bret Harte was an editor, and Mark Twain was hired at a salary of $50 per month. Harte contributed articles as well, and the periodical jumped to the fore among its competitors in the San Francisco Bay Area including the Golden Era. The paper was published in the "imperial size", an industry term. It measured 22 inches across and thirty inches high with easy to read pages that ran three columns across. According to Ben Tarnoff, "Readers expecting tales of honest miners, or lyrical tributes to California's landscape, would be disappointed. Like Harte himself, the Californian took pleasure in puncturing cliches. It could be populist or aristocratic, radical or conservative--but always contrarian."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Nicely bound by Bennett's of New York in full grained morocco with gilt rules, raised bands, all edges gilt, and title gilt on backstrip. Pictorial endpapers and pastedowns, xxi [3], 228 pp., introduction, preface, illustrated, frontispiece, bibliography. A nice collection of articles from the late Gold Rush era by the revered American authors Bret Harte and Mark Twain. Bound in the near center of the text block is the 1870 first edition of Harte's 'Heathen Chinee,' containing nine illustration by Joseph Hull. ?Heathen Chinee? is a satirical poem of racial prejudice in northern California. Much to Harte?s dismay, the poem was embraced by the American public as a mockery of Chinese immigrants, and it shaped anti-Chinese sentiment more than any other work at the time. Bret Harte (1836-1902) was a celebrated author and poet, who is best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Born in Albany, New York, he moved to California in 1854, later working there in several capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. Former owner's neat bookplate on verso of front free fly leaf, his inked name and date on the next page, spine panel and front corners lightly rubbed, as are the top edges of front and rear covers, else a near fine copy.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.