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HARTE, Bret. The lost galleon and other tales. Towne & Bacon, San Francisco, 1867.

Price: US$64.36 + shipping

Description: 1st US edition. Lacks back free end paper, & preceding blank page; pencil inscription (1868); spine badly faded; wear to cloth at head & foot of spine; some loss of colour on front board; gilt on front board still quite bright. Used - Good. Good hardback in purple cloth with gilt

Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Harte, Bret. The Lost Galleon and Other Tales. Towne & Bacon, Printers, San Francisco, 1867.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Rear free endpaper torn away. Spine faded, early owner's name on title-page.

Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.

HARTE, BRET. Lost Galleon and Other Tales. , 1867.

Price: US$201.25 + shipping

Description: HARTE, BRET. The Lost Galleon and Other Tales. San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, 1867. 108, [1] p. Terra-cotta cloth. Spine spotted, binding worn at the extremities, glue residue on endpapers. Withal, a tight copy. First edition. BAL 7242.

Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.

Harte, Bret.. THE LOST GALLEON and Other Tales.. Towne & Bacon: San Francisco, 1867.

Price: US$224.25 + shipping

Description: 8 x 5, gilt decorated brown cloth, 108pp + Notes, covers rubbed, extremities fraying, hinges loose, contents toned with some finger soil. FIRST ED.

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

Harte, Bret. THE LOST GALLEON: And Other Tales. Towne & Bacon, Printers, San Francisco, 1867.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of this collection of poems. Dark-rose cloth boards stamped in gold on front; brown, coated endpapers. Spine and edges faded to brown, some light staining to covers, marginal loss at spine ends and corners, altogether better than good. Housed in custom cloth sleeve and slipcase with leather spine stamped in gold (light wear at spine).

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

Harte, Bret. The Lost Galleon. Towne & Bacon, San Francisco, 1867.

Price: US$274.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Publisher's cloth with gilt sail, beveled board edges. Spine sunned, corners slightly bumped. PO gift inscription. The pages which lack page numbers have had them lightly pencilled in. Firm binding and hinges. First edition, variant binding with gilt sail on cover located near the top of the board. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

Harte, Bret.. THE LOST GALLEON and Other Tales.. Towne & Bacon: San Francisco, 1867.

Price: US$287.50 + shipping

Description: 8 x 5, gilt decorated mauve cloth, 108pp + Notes, covers rubbed with sunned and fraying extremities, spine sunned, hinges loose, contents toned. FIRST ED, VARIANT BINDING, WITH GILT SAIL EMBLEM ON COVER CENTERED AT TOP OF FRONT COVER (instead of middle).

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

Harte, Bret. The Lost Galleon and Other Tales. Towne & Bacon, San Francisco, 1867.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: HARTE, BRET. The Lost Galleon and Other Tales, San Francisco, Towne & Bacon, 1867.12mo, first edition, pp. 108, 1 (notes), green cloth boards with beveled edges and gilt mast and sail outlining title 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.H. 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 7242.Condition of this book:Very good with a spot at the top edge and light rubbing to the edges of the boards. A few marks internally. 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; Poetry. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53029.

Seller: Rarities etc., Warwick, NY, U.S.A.

Harte, Bret. THE LOST GALLEON and Other Tales. Towne & Bacon, San Francisco, 1867.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 12mo. 108(1)pp. Bound in brown pictorial gilt cloth over beveled boards depicting a ship's sail; internally finlight cover edge wear.

Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.

Harte, Bret [Francis Brett Harte]. The Lost Galleon and Other Tales. Towne & Bacon, San Francisco, 1867.

Price: US$395.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, 1867. First Edition. BAL 7242. 12mo, 108 pp. + 1 page notes. Original russet cloth with gilt stamped mast and sail decoration on front cover bearng, in intaglio, the title. Rubbing at covers, corners /spine ends showing a bit; front pastedown stained from removed bookplate, one signature sprung. Closely approaching but just a bit short of very good. See scans. Harte's second book, a collection of poems including the lengthy title piece. An Albany, NY native who later moved to California and, after writing in San Francisco for The Californian, where he worked with Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard and others, he became first editor of the Overland Monthly. "The Luck of Roaring Camp" , published there, established his fame. But he had loved poetry since childhood - when he had had several poems published by the age of eleven - and continued that pursuit in The Lost Galleon. See scans. L16n

Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.

Harte, Fr. Bret.. THE LOST GALLEON And Other Tales.. Towne & Bacon: San Francisco, 1867.

Price: US$402.50 + shipping

Description: 7.5 x 5, pebbled red cloth with gilt title, 108 pp + notes, covers quite worn and stained, extremities frayed and bumped, hinges loose, staining at top and bottom edges throughout, still a decent copy. FIRST ED OF AUTHOR'S SECOND BOOK, in variant binding (no beveled edges, not ship vignette, with peach colored endpapers).

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

HARTE, BRET. The Lost Galleon and Other Tales. Towne & Beacon, San Francisco, 1867.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 12mo. Original purple cloth with a gilt mast and sail centered on the front board. Spine faded uniformly to a slightly lighter lilac. Edges beveled. Brown endpapers. A fine copy with no chipping or damage to the edges. Houses in an orange folding inner chemise which sits in a 1/4 orange morocco slipcase. A very clean, crisp and pleasing copy. BAL 7242. VG.

Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.

Harte, Bret [H. Bradley Martin]. THE LOST GALLEON AND OTHER TALES. Towne & Bacon, San Francisco, 1867.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 12mo. Author's first book of poetry. This copy is from the library of H. Bradley Martin, a life long collector whose 10,000-volume library was sold at Sotheby's in 1989 - 1990. 108(1)pp. Bound in green pictorial gilt cloth depicting a sail and mast. A fine, bright copy housed within a custom clamshell with famed collector Bradley-Martin's bookplate mounted within the clamshell. A superb copy.

Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.

Harte, Francis Bret. The Lost Galleon and Other Tales. Towne & Bacon, San Francisco, 1867.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 12mo. Bret Harte's First Book of Poems. Bret Harte's first book of original verse, published a few weeks after his first book, Condensed Novels And Other Papers. BAL 7242 Original green cloth, bevelled boards. Very fine. Bookplate of Herschel V. Jones. In green morocco slipcase and chemise

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.