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18961260361896. Signed. 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 345Harte 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. hardcover
18961177961896. Signed. HARTE Bret. The Writings. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1896. Nineteen volumes. Octavo contemporary three-quarter red morocco elaborately gilt-decorated spines raised bands marbled boards and endpapers top edges gilt uncut and mostly unopened. $4800.Autograph Edition of Hartes tales essays and poems number 31 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 very handsomely bound.With the success of The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches 1870""Eastern critics went headlong into eulogies"" Kunitz & Haycraft 345Harte 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. Complete as issued; a 20th volume would be added in 1914 as part of a limited edition. 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. Fine condition. hardcover
189016614London: Chatto & Windus 1890-1900. 10 volumes. First edition thus. 8vo in lovely bindings for Sotheran & Co. of three-quarter rose calf with matching cloth covered boards corner and spines ruled in gilt spines with gilt stippled raised bands creating compartments featuring an attractive gilt device two compartments with morocco labels lettered and ruled in gilt. A fine and handsome set but for some minor mellowing to the bindings the spines very evenly toned to salmon. FIRST OF THE EDITION HANDSOMELY BOUND AND QUITE SCARCE THUS. Bret Harte was one of the earliest American writers to emerge from the state of California. His stories often infused with local colour from the region won him world regard. In fact he was far more popular in Europe then he ever was in the United States.<br> This collection includes his poetry as well as the stories and short novels for which he is far better known. Chatto & Windus hardcover
189053659Philadelphia: J B Lippincott 1890. First Edition. Original wraps. Very good. 39p Large octavo pp. 627-782 plus 58pp. of advertisements in two sections before and after main text. Very good or better in the publisher's printed wrappers with a chip to the crown the chip still present and laid-in mild edewear but clean and sound. Eugene Field's copy with his small bookplate to the interior front wrap and a lengthy ownership inscription by his son Eugene Field II on the title page. Housed in a handsome metallic gold-colored chemise and slipcase backed in brown morocco. Another handsome bookplate to the chemise. Very good . Softcover. <br /> <br />The true first printing of this collection by Bret Harte at the time among America's best-known and best-loved poets. This appearance in Lippincott's Magazine precedes the published book by more than six months per BAL 7352 see also 7356 and 7357 for the book edition first published in the UK in 1891. <br /> <br />Compared with a number of other important works which first appeared in this periodical The Picture of Dorian Gray some Doyle novels etc. this seems to be particularly scarce. This copy with appealing provenance having belonged to a fellow poet and one of the most celebrated bibliophiles of the era Eugene Field. <br/><br/> J B Lippincott paperback
188617909Chatto & Windus 1886. Sm. 4to. First Edition Early Issue on laid paper with coloured frontispiece coloured title-vignette and 26 coloured illustrations in the text text mildly age-marked; original beige pictorial cloth upper and lower boards with gilt frame border blocked in colours with different vignettes and lettered in gilt and black backstrip lettered in black all edges gilt blue endpapers very neatly recased covers mildly age-soiled as often else a bright firm copy. Early issue of the first edition; points include gilt edges blue endpapers missing apostrophe on p.25. Schuster & Engen 165.1f. Chatto & Windus, hardcover
30057London: Chatto & Windus engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Bookplate of Thomas Parkin. "Susan Parkin" written in ink on half-title.front endpaper slightly torn. some foxing to prelims. back guttering slightly loose. edges slightly rubbed and head of spine worn. W. H. Smith & Sons blind-stamped on corner of front endpaper. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Greenaway Kate. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
189125566London. Chatto & Windus. 1891 1891. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 19cm the first edition 310432p. ads. undated ads plus 32 pp ads dated January 1891 in the original light green cloth gilt titles on the spine and titles and cross borders stamped in red on the upper cover patterned endpapers stamping bright near fine copy s1. - First Edition preceding the American edition Blank. 7356. London. Chatto & Windus. 1891 hardcover
1890RO40229278Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris. 1890. In-12. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 304 pages. Auteur, titre et filets dorés sur le dos.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
1950RO30079021BOSTON AND NEW YORK - FIRESIDE EDITION. 1950. In-8. Relié cuir dos-coins. Etat passable, Coins frottés, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. Environ 2500 pages. Frontispice : gravure en noir et blanc, avec serpente. Ouvrages en anglais. Tranches en-têtes dorées.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
1884RO40204466Calmann Lévy. 1884. In-12. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos à nerfs, Rousseurs. 436 pages. Auteur, titre et code dorés sur le dos. Tampons bleus en page de titre (Chambre des Députés). Dos et plats frottés.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
1897RO40255704Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. 1897. In-16. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Coiffe en tête abîmée, Quelques rousseurs. 279 pages. Etiquette de code sur la couverture. Quelques tampons de bibliothèque.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
1906RO40255705Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. 1906. In-16. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 256 pages. Etiquette de code sur la couverture. Quelques tampons de bibliothèque. Quelques annotations au crayon dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
1907RO40255712Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. 1907. In-16. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Intérieur acceptable. 285 pages. Etiquette de code sur la couverture. Quelques tampons de bibliothèque.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
1884R240074719CALMANN LEVY. 1884. In-12. Broché. A relier, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Rousseurs. 434 pages - très fortes rousseurs et quelques traces de mouillures sans réelle conséquence sur la lecture - plats désolidarisés - dos manquant - déchirures sur les plats - tranches salies.. . . . Classification Dewey : 904-Recueils de récits d'événements
1914RO60107219Bernhard Tauchnitz. 1914. In-16. Broché. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Intérieur acceptable. 272 pages. Couverture et 1ers cahiers se détachant.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
1906RO60107220Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. 1906. In-16. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Intérieur acceptable. 269 pages. 1ers cahiers se détachant.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
18772900Traduits par Th. Bentzon.Paris, Michel Lévy 1877. 372 pages.Reliure demi chagrin rouge de l'époque. Dos à nerfs orné et doré. Pas de rousseur. Très bon état. Format in-12° (18x12).
18732899Traduits par Th. Bentzon.Paris, Michel Lévy 1873. 436 pages.Reliure demi chagrin rouge de l'époque. Dos à nerfs orné et doré. Pas de rousseur. Très bon état. Format in-12° (18x12).
188824188Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1888. First Edition. Small 8vo publisher’s original brown cloth decorated all over the front and spine in purple the rear in blind the upper cover also lettered in purple the spine gilt lettered. 215 pp. A very near to fine copy bright and fresh the cloth still rich and unfaded with exceptionally little wear internally very clean and completely free of foxing or spotting the hinges firm and tight. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. This is a collection of two novellas from one of the earliest American writers to emerge from the state of California. His witty sometimes heart-rending tales of frontier California earned him acclaim. Later in life Harte moved back east where Andrew Carnegie praised him as uniquely American: “A whispering pine of the Sierras transplanted to Fifth Avenue! How could it grow Although it shows some faint signs of life how sickly are the leaves! As for fruit there is none. America had in Bret Harte its most distinctively national poet.†Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
188524186Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1885. First Edition. Small 8vo publisher’s original blue cloth decorated all over in blind the upper cover and spine gilt lettered. 260 pp. A very good bright and fresh copy of this little gem the cloth still bright and blue with only very minimal wear along the edges and tips internally very clean and completely free of foxing or spotting the hinges firm and tight all near fine. AN UNCOMMONLY FRESH COPY OF THIS FIRST EDITION from one of the earliest American writers to emerge from the state of California. His stories often infused with local colour from the region won him world regard. BY SHORE AND SEDGE has been described as an “awfully tall tale awfully well told.†Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
187135002Boston Osgood 1871. In Boston Osgood 1871. In-12 demi maroquin rouge à coins. Titre en long sur le dos. 21 pages. Avec des illustrations hors texte de EYTINGE. Mouillure sur la marge inférieure.
1875038686Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1875. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition. Green cloth with a bit of wear and slight bumping to corners rubbing to hinge and spine ends. Slight foxing internally largely to first and last pages. BAL 7280 Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 038686. <br/><br/> James R. Osgood and Company hardcover
1875038686Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1875. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition. Green cloth with a bit of wear and slight bumping to corners rubbing to hinge and spine ends. Slight foxing internally largely to first and last pages. BAL 7280 Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 038686. <br/><br/> James R. Osgood and Company hardcover books
RO60077926Bernhard Tauchnitz. Non daté. In-16. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 279 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
861London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited 1898. . 8vo dark green cloth gilt lettering design stamped in black front cover and spine; cloth rubbed over outer hinges corners and head and tail of spine; inner hinges cracked; endpapers brown. Barrett duplicate withdrawn from the University of Virginia and with Clifton Waller Barrett's armorial bookplate. First Edition preceding the American publication. BAL 7389 variant binding not noted by Blanck London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1898. hardcover books
