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Bret Harte in California a Character Study
by Kahn, Edgar M
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Bolivia, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco, California: Privately Printed, 1951. 25 pages; a limited edition of 200 copies, this being # 2; especially interesting for the endpaper presentation from Haywood Hunt, who designed and printed the book "To my good friend Jim Elliott May 5, '52 Hayw(o)od Hunt" (We note that Mr. Elliott was a member of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco); the frontispiece portrait engraving of Bret Harte is pencil-signed by Will Wilke, del.; introduction by Carl I. Wheat; bound in marbled-paper covered boards, beige cloth spine, paper title label; some bumping, wear to binding, one leaf with some edge-discoloration (old binder's glue or dye?); good plus condition, and especially nice for the designers' inscription and illustrators signature in the number 2 copy of the print run.. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.
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- Certain Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17988
- Title
- Bret Harte in California a Character Study
- Author
- Kahn, Edgar M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, California
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- H United States American Literature Bret Harte in California a Character Study Edgar M. Kahn Carl I Wheat Signed by Illustrator Will Wilke Carl I. Wheat California History Newspapers Literary
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