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Price: US$4.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In green cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 488pp. ( fading, dulling and spotting to cloth and spine; name in ink). Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good
Description: In green cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 382pp. ( fading, dulling and spotting to cloth and spine; name in ink). Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good
Description: In green cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 482pp. ( fading, dulling and spotting to cloth and spine) Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good
Description: In green cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 380pp. ( fading, dulling and spotting to cloth and spine) Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good
Description: In green cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 474pp.pp. ( fading, dulling and spotting to cloth and spine; ). Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In green cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 445pp. ( fading, dulling and spotting to cloth and spine) Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. Cressy and other Tales volume VII of Bret Harte's Writings. Houghton Mifflin, 1896.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard Cover. Hardback G+ Complete solid reading copy. Book is clean., No DJ Green cloth covered Boards are bright. Light shelf wear. Gilt on top page edges, letters, and decoration is bright. bottom boards and bumped, evident when seen fron bottom.
Seller: BOOKFINDER, inc, Lawndale, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$8.19 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1896. 447 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$8.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1896. 447 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Splitting to spine joints and ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: With a glossary of far-western terms, & index to characters; marbled paper over boards with maroon leather corners & backstrip; marbled endpages; b/w frontis photogravure + 3 plates + b/w il on engraved title page, all with tissue guards; top 2" of leather over spine missing; covers detached
Seller: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$9.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green HB
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$9.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green HB
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-lib (see description of condition below; save for lib status, G+ to VG-). Hardcover in set-design green cloth with gilt stamping front and spine, no jacket, 8vo. 483pp. Lib indications are written call lower spine end, marked over stamped lower page edges and page fore edges; bookplate front pastedown and marked "withdrawn" note upper ffep and rear ffep; scraping as from former checksheet (not pocket) rear pastedown. embossed bookseal impression lower title page. Toning to spine with no efect on titles; softening with surface loss at spine ends and tips of toed-in corners; front cloth and stamping clean. Light to moderate play to front hinge through frontis with all holding fine; binding lightly shaken overall, otherwise strong and square. Pages clean and unmarked.
Seller: Bookfeathers, LLC, Lewisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Not ex-lib. Hardcover in dark green cloth with gilt-stamped titles and decoration to spine, no jacket, large 12mo/small 8vo. x + 474pp. + publisher's notices. VG- to VG. Touches of surface loss along softened upper hinge ends and at tips of lightly bumped corners; occasional surface loss/rubbing to boards, primarily near lower corners, with cloth overall clean and sharp with legible main title dulled, other stamping bright. Binding and hinges strong and square but stiff, favors several gatherings within; pages also quite stiff, clean and unmarked on off-quality stock. Mild foxing to page edges; shelving soil upper edges.
Seller: Bookfeathers, LLC, Lewisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.60 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1896. 483 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1896 Reprint. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Wearing and minor damage visible on covers and spine. Corners bumped. Spine shows signs of knocking. Ink marking on flyleaf. Staining on pages 328 to 330. Slight cracking on the hinge of the back endpapers. Includes seven black and white photogravures. Volume five only. 482p.
Seller: Shadyside Books, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1896 Reprint. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Wearing and some damage visible on covers and spine. Water stain visible on back. Corners bumped. Ink marking on flyleaf. Staining on flyleaf, frontispiece, and title page. Some yellowing throughout the interior. Includes seven black and white photogravures. Volume seven only. 488p.
Seller: Shadyside Books, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1896 Reprint. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Wearing on covers. Wearing and minor damage on the spine. Corners bumped. Ink marking on flyleaf. Cracking visible on the hinges. Some staining on flyleaf, frontispiece, title page, and edge of pages. Includes five black and white photogravures. Volume ten only. 447p.
Seller: Shadyside Books, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. The Writings of Bret Harte: Volume Two Only. Houghton and Mifflin, Boston, 1896.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine and edges of boards are heavily sunned. Corners are bumped and somewhat frayed. Faint foxing throughout and visible hinges; despite flaws binding is tight. Volume two only. ; 8vo
Seller: Daedalus Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owners name plate on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. No dust jacket. Minimal cover wear. Clean unmarked text. Tight binding.
Seller: Dewey Books PTMD, Port Tobacco, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1896 Reprint. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Wearing visible on covers and spine. Corners bumped. Ink marking on flyleaf. Some cracking and weakness evident in the binding. Includes five black and white photogravures. Volume eight only. 483p.
Seller: Shadyside Books, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. The Writings of Bret Harte; Tales of the Argonauts. Houghton Mifflin, 1896.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Green cloth w/gilt deco on cover/lettering on spine, 440 pgs +6 tipped in illustrartions w/tissue guard Inside Clean, Covers have shelf edge/wear, bottom corner missng, darkened spine. contents include: The Iliad of Sandy Bar, The poet of Sierra Flat, The man from Solano, etc. Good reading volume.
Seller: The Vintage BookStore, Jim Thorpe, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1896. Book is in VG++ condition unmarked clean tight and bright. Lightly sun tanned at spine otherwise cover is bright strong and square
Seller: Calliopebooks, Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. THE CRUSADE OF THE EXCELSIOR ETC.. Houghton Mifflin, BOSTON, 1896.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Riverside Edition, "The Writings of Bret Harte - Volume VI". This is part of a series of the writing of Bret Harte in several volumes. In olive green boards with gilt lettering, gilt foredge. A tight, clean copy. With previous owner's signature.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Volume X of the Overland Edition "The Writings of Bret Harte". Frontispiece with tissue guard. Handwritten on the inside front pastedown and ffep is a four verse piece of prose inscribed "to Irene Nance in memory of many pleasant hours" and Signed Richard Bret Harte July 20, 1918. Richard Bret Harte was Bret Harte's grandson and an artist (a pupil of Aubrey Beardsley) and lived in Santa Monica from 1915-1920. Fair, full calf, leather is fragile and coming apart on spine and back cover, gilt title on spine is chipped and not all of the title is present, leather chipped at spine head and top back near spine and missing 1-1/2" at spine foot. Binding is solid, text is clean.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1896 Reprint. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Wearing visible on covers and spine. Corners bumped. Ink marking on flyleaf. Slight cracking in the binding. Includes six black and white photogravures. Volume three only. 430p.
Seller: Shadyside Books, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.68 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1896. No Edition Remarks. 488 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Sticker to front free endpaper. Tears to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Wear marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Bret Harte. The Writings of Bret Harte ( Volume VIII). Houghton Mifflin, 1896.
Price: US$19.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Shelf 1009 Text clean; paper lightly browned; gilt to front cover and spine; gilt on top edge of paper ; spine cracked; private library plate on FEP; slight spine slant; corners lightly bumped; wear to the surface, edges and corners of covers including some marks; Not a book club copy. No marks, no underlining, not ex library, not price clipped, not a remainder.
Seller: BookManBookWoman Books, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. The Writings of Bret Hate, vol. 1. Houghton Mifflin, 1896.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo., standard library ed., green cloth, browned on spine, Roaring Camp and other pieces
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owners name label on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896. Early reprint (1896). Green cloth binding, gold facsimile signature,ruling, titles, top edge gilt. 460 pp. Previous owner bookplate. Near fine condition.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Riverside Edition. Green cloth binding, gilt ruling and facsimile signature to front board, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Volume IX, Writings of Bret Harte. 474 pp. Previous owner bookplate. Near fine condition.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fine green cloth, gilt titles and facsimile signature, top edge gilt. 482 pp., rough-cut. Near fine condition.Previous owner bookplate. A very nice antique copy in great shape.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$56.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green hardcover ex-library with typical marks shows moderate cover wear. Text is unmarked. Ships FAST!
Seller: Swan Trading Company, GEORGETOWN, TX, U.S.A.
HARTE, Bret. The Writings of Bret Harte. Houghton Mifflin Co, New York, 1896.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Salesman's Dummy Copy. Seemingly random collection of text and illustrations from the 20 volume set bound up in a small octavo volume complete with two examples of the spines (one in cloth, the other in leather) and cover material. Very Good, modest cracking at front outer hinge.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Bret Harte. The Writings of Bret Harte:The Story of an Mine. Houghton Mifflin, 1896.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Good condition, no dustjacket, minor bend in front cover board, bumped tips, some wear to edges, 8.25in height, 430 pages
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: Good in boards. Chips at heel and crown of spine with a tears at top of binding. All pages secure but hinge is weak. Bumped with edg wear. ; The Writings of Bret Harte; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
HARTE, Bret. The Writings of Bret Harte. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1896.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 14 volumes. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt. Various paginations (most ca. 450pp each). Frontispieces. Top edges gilt. Most very good. Minor occasional edgewear; the pastedown of each volume bears a bookplate presenting the set to Chicago's noted Union League Club; volume 11 is mismatched, being from Mifflin's "Riverside Edition," which is about ½" shorter (small 8vo) and of a different hue of green. Attractive, tight "Standard Library Edition."
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$91.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good 14 VOLUME SET of hardcovers. No DJ's. VOLUMES 1 THROUGH 14. With introductions, glossary, and indexes. Illustrated by photogravures. Pages are clean and unmarked. Gilt top page edges. Covers (green cloth with gilt lettering/decoration) show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Spines faded. Bindings tight, hinges strong except vol. 3 binding loosening slightly but still intact. TITLES: The Luck of Roaring Camp Early Tales Etc. / II: Tales of the Argonauts / III: The Story of a Mine Etc. / IV: In the Carquinez Woods Etc. / V: Maruja and Other Tales / VI: The Crusade of the Excelsior Etc. / VII: Cressy and Other Tales / VIII: A First Family of Tasajara Etc. / IX: A Waif of the Plains Etc. / X: In a Hollow of the Hills Etc. / XI: Thankful Blossom Eastern Tales Etc. / XII: Poems Two Men of Sandy Bar / XIII: Gabriel Conroy Bohemian Papers I / XIV: Gabriel Conroy Bohemian Papers II.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green hardcover ex-library with typical marks shows moderate cover wear. Text is unmarked. Ships FAST!
Seller: Swan Trading Company, GEORGETOWN, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$119.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The books are green cloth with gilt letters, graphics and top edge in the Standard Library Edition. The books are good to very good. The set has two volumes missing NOTE VOLUMES III & XX are missing. B1
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Standard Library edition. First fourteen volumes only (of nineteen). Decorative gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge gilt. Introduction by the author. Hinges cracked, spines browned with ends frayed, a very good set with Edward Burkingham Hatch's decorative bookplate; illustrated by Jay K. Chambers, on front pastedowns of each volume. Vol. I: *The Luck of Roaring Camp*, Vol. II: *Tales of the Argonauts*, Vol. III: *The Story of a Mine*, Vol. IV: *In the Carquinez Woods*, Vol. V: *Maruja*, Vol. VI: *The Crusade of the Excelsior*, Vol. VII: *Cressy*, Vol. VIII: *A First Family of Tasajara*, Vol. IX: *A Waif of the Plains*, Vol. X: *In a Hollow of the Hills*, Vol. XI: *Eastern Stories and Sketches*, Vol. XII: *Poems, Two Men of Sandy Bar*, Vol. XIII: *Gabriel Conroy Bohemian Papers, Glossary, I*, Vol. XIV: *Gabriel Conroy Bohemian Papers, Glossary, II*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$162.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volumes 1 - 16 of the Standard Library Edition of the Writings of Bret Harte, in green cloth binding. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Jumbo-sized. Oversized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed frontisepiece by T. de Thulstrup. Copy #283 of 350 copies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Collectorsemall, Rialto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$340.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed. 14 volume set (eventually extended to more volumes), signed by Bret Harte in the first volume and some of the illustrators on the mounted illustrations throughout. Bookplate of former owner on each of the front pastedowns. Covers show minor wear, tear, rubbing, tanning, fading. Loose/torn hinges. Pages tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Bret Harte. The Writings of Bret Harte (Set of 20). Houghton Mifflin Company, 1896.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Complete in 20 volumes. Overland Edition. Limp leather wrapped boards mildly frayed and worn around the edges with bumped corners and more significantly worn spine ends. Some small and mild blemishes to spines and board faces, including discoloration and small areas of deterioration/punctures. Nearly all books are slightly curved, including text block and boards. Hinges somewhat loosening and a few instances of mildly split binding, but binding remains strong on the whole. Previous bookseller's sticker on rear endpaper of most books. Pages are tanned but remain otherwise clean and unmarked.
Seller: Sparrow's Bookshop, IOBA, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: This is the complete set of 20 volumes bound in the original heavy but finely-woven green linen cloth with paper labels at the tops of the spines. There are numerous condition problems with this set: cracked hinges, heavy chipping and tearing at the tops of many of the spine ends; several paper labels are missing while others are heavily chipped. However, the interiors of the books are very good indeed. The volumes with the exceptions of the several with cracked hinges are clean and tight. With all the charming and action-packed illustrations present, many of them signed by prominent artists of the times: Frederic Remington, James M. Flagg, E. Boyd Smith, Frank Merrill, Eric Pape, Arthur Keller, Thomas Fogarty, and Seymour Stone. Volume I is inscribed "Bret Hart September 1896" on the "Author's Autograph Copy Page." A good, solid set of Harte's works in the original cloth which could use some restoration to the paper labels and the spine separations. Perhaps a suitable set for rebinding in moroccan leather. Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.His first literary efforts, including poetry and prose, appeared in The Californian, an early literary journal edited by Charles Henry Webb. In 1868 he became editor of The Overland Monthly, another new literary magazine, but this one more in tune with the pioneering spirit of excitement in California. His story, "The Luck of Roaring Camp", appeared in the magazine's second issue, propelling Harte to nationwide fame. Autograph edition signed by Bret Harte #223/350 copies.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
HARTE, Bret. The Writings of Bret Harte.. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company., 1896.
Price: US$2544.05 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 19 volume complete set, 8 1/4 inches tall. A splendid earthy terracotta morocco binding, somehow fitting for the tales of Harte, with gilt raised bands, handsomely framed gilt floral centre tools and gilt top edges. Bookplates and owner's name in ink on the half-titles. 'The Standard Library Edition'. Illustrated throughout. The bindings are in fine condition with the occasional mark but absolutely no signs of wear, splitting or loss. Bret Harte was a greatly admired and popular American short story writer and poet, famed for his description of miners, gamblers and other romantic characters of the Californian Gold Rush. While a reporter he covered the 1860 massacre of around 200 Wiyot Indians in California, condemning the slayings, "A more shocking and revolting spectacle never was exhibited to the eyes of a Christian and civilized people. Old women wrinkled and decrepit lay weltering in blood, their brains dashed out and dabbled with their long gray hair. Infants scarce a span long, with their faces cloven with hatchets and their bodies ghastly with wounds." Harte was forced to leave his post, eventually moving to the East Coast, then to Europe, finally settling in England, where he died in 1902.
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom
Harte, Bret. The Writings of Bret Harte. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1896.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: 20 volumes. 1896-1914. Standard Library Edition. Complete. Introduction by the author. Engraved frontis portrait of the author, extra engraved titles, many photogravures throughout. Introductions, glossary, and indexes. Three-quarter dark blue crushed morocco, light blue cloth sides, spines with raised bands and gilt elements between panels, top edges gilt. Spines very slightly faded, but a very fine, uncut set. A very handsome collection of Harte's writings including all his major and minor stories, poems, etc.: Luck of Roaring Camp; Tales of the Argonauts; Gabriel Conroy; A Waif of the Plains, and all the others. Includes the scarce Volume XX (Stories and Poems), published separately in 1914. The 129 photogravure plates include frontispieces, two double-page maps and 20 pictorial extra-engraved title pages. The illustrations were drawn by major artists including Mary Hallock Foote, Eric Pape, J. M. Flagg, Frederic Remington, E. Boyd Smith, Charles M. Russell, Guy Rose, et al. Having worked as a successful journalist and writer in California, Bret Harte's reputation as a leading nineteenth century American man of letters was firmly established by the publication of his immensely successful collection, The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (1870). This brought him immediate recognition across the United States and he went on to write numerous novels and magazine contributions (most of which are gathered here).
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: HARTE, Bret. The Writings. WITH: MERWIN, Henry Childs. The Life of Bret Harte. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, (1896-1914); 1911. Together, twenty-one volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, covers, and full morocco doublures, raised bands, watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and mostly unopened. $9500."Autograph Edition" of Hartes tales, essays and poems, number 336 of 350 sets signed and dated by him, illustrated with vignette title pages, 103 engraved platesincluding one signed by Frederic Remingtonand two-page color map of the Pacific coast, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt with morocco doublures. Together with a 1911 first edition of Merwin's biography of Harte uniformly bound with the rest of the set.With the success of The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches (1870)"Eastern critics went headlong into eulogies" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 345)Harte found himself world-famous. His popular tales of California life, particularly those set in mining country, made him a star of the lecture circuit and helped create the local-color school of American fiction. "An ability to observe and retain, a good narrative sense and a palatable humor are responsible for [Harte's] continued prestige" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 346). These volumes include not only Harte's poetry and prose but also a biographical sketch of the author, a glossary of "Far-Western" terms and an index to characters. With the separately published Volume XX from 1914, as well as a 1911 first edition of Merwin's Life of Bret Harte, uniformly bound with the rest of the set. Each volume with half title and engraved general title page with vignette. Each volume with at least one plate signed by the artist, including the frontispiece of Volume V signed by Frederic Remington. BAL 7384. Very faint offsetting to limitation page, not affecting signature. A beautifully bound signed set in fine condition.
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$11960.00 + shipping
Description: 221 x 146 mm. (8 5/8 x 5 3/4"). 21 volumes. HANDSOME DARK BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, FROM THE BINDERY OF THE RIVERSIDE PRESS (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), covers with gilt fillet frame and large floral wreath at center, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with Tudor rose centerpiece, gilt lettering, LIGHT GREEN MOROCCO DOUBLURES with pretty gilt frame, green watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, three volumes UNOPENED. Writings with title page vignettes and 134 PLATES, including 20 color frontispieces, portrait of the author, and 113 photogravure plates printed on India paper and mounted on heavy stock, at least one plate in each volume SIGNED in pencil by the artists, who include Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, M. J. Burns, Seymour M. Stone, Frederick McCormick, and Alice Barber Stephens; "Life" with frontispiece portrait and 16 plates. BAL 7384; BAL 7408. âA touch of sunning to spines, but A SUPERB SET inside and out, with only the most trivial imperfections. Offered here in an expansive deluxe edition in sumptuous bindings, this is a collection of works by a premier chronicler of the American West and the California Gold Rush, a writer whose vivid and romantic depictions did much to contribute to the region's allure. According to Day, "Harte's West is one of picturesque melodrama, sentimentality amidst the sordid, a boisterous flotsam-and-jetsam society set against spectacular scenery. . . . His pervasive technique was contrast, physically among the bizarre admixture of humanity in contemporary California, and morally within individuals (favorite Harte subjects are gamblers and harlots with hearts of gold and blasphemous miners who would weep copious tears over Little Nell)." Harte was part of a vibrant San Francisco literary scene that included Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce, and was also close to Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Our set is enhanced with illustrations by some of the leading artists of the West, including Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, who bring Harte's colorful characters, dramatic Western panoramas, and rowdy scenes to life. Our set was extravagantly bound at the Riverside Press bindery, and its yards of beautifully gilt crushed morocco make a striking appearance on the shelf. The "Writings" were issued in 19 volumes in 1896, followed by a 20th volume in 1903 and then Merwin's "Life" of Harte in 1914; not surprisingly, the set is frequently seen incomplete, without the two subsequent volumes that are present here. No. 59 of 350 COPIES of the Autograph Edition, SIGNED in the first volume BY THE AUTHOR and dated September 1896.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.