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 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 [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.