Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Red and yellow boards with gilt lettering on spine; title with design on both back and front boards. This book is in fine condition, with only fading on the front board. Deckled edges as published. American short story expanding on the possibilities of the California Gold Rush. This is one of only 300 copies produced by Grabhorn Press.
Seller: Back of Beyond Books WH, Moab, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter red cloth with red decorated paper-covered boards, spine label, folio, (vi), 16, (1) pages, four colored engravings and an ititial by Mallette Dean. One of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Attractive bookplate, miniscule penned annotation at front paste-down, some slight fading to the spine and margins of the front boards, which are slightly bowed, still a very good copy.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
HARTE, BRET.. The Luck of the Roaring Camp.. Ransohoffs, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Maroon boards and maroon cloth back, very good copy. Fine press edition. Printed at the Grabhorn Press in an edition of 300 copies. Zamorano Eighty 40: "The author wrote these sketches 'to illustrate an era' and was later criticized for having romanticized rather than having realistically depicted life 'in the diggins.' Nevertheless one cannot imagine a bibliography of outstanding California literature which does not contain among its chief entries this little volume." Heller & Magee 469. Johnson, High Spots of American Literature p. 37.
Seller: Darwin Labordo, Books, Sierra Madre, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. The Luck Of Roaring Camp; Introduction By Oscar Lewis. Ransohoffs, San Francisco, 1948.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated, approx. 17 pages. Folio, 34 x 25 cm. Limited edition, one of 300. With illustrations designed and engraved by Mallette Dean, and printed by the Grabhorn Press. Bright, very fresh copy. Orig. mauve decorated boards. Fine in plain light brown dust wrapper tattered at spine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$74.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 4to. Ransohoffs/Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1948. 50 pgs. One of 300 copies printed with hand-set Goudy Modern type. Initials and 4 full-page illustrations in color, engraved by Mallette Dean. Signed by Ed Grabhorn on the verso page. Bound in half red linen and decorated boards, printed paper spine label. Spine ever so slightly faded, but a very fine copy. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid Originally 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. Ransohoffs was an elite women's department store who catered to the affluent of the Bay Area. The Grabhorn Press founded in San Francisco in 1920 was "one of the foremost producers of finely printed books in twentieth-century America." EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 50 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, 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.
HARTE, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1948.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With 4 color illustrations designed and engraved by Mallette Dean. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. [6], 17pp Tall slim 4to, cloth-backed gilt-stamped pictorial boards, uncut pages. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for Ransohoffs, 1948. Pages slightly toned at edges, still a near fine copy. One of 300 copies.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 33 x 24 cm, [vii], [17] four full page, full color oval illustrations in gilt frames, title page and colophon in red and black, colored pictorial initial, decorations all by Mallette Dean. In manuscript pencil on front free endpaper "1/29/49 | Gift from A. A. Knopf"
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, 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.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: San Francisco, CA: Grabhorn Press/Ransohoff's. Very good condition/No Dustjacket. 1948. of 300. 4to., 17 pp. . Very good condition/No Dustjacket
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, 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.