Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1892). First American Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. White endpapers. Cover has very minor rubbing at corners. Binding sound and straight. Neat bookplate on front pastedown. No marks in text. Light tanning to top edge of text block and a little darkening of spine. BAL 7362 ; B&W frontis; 7" x 4 5/8"; <i-iv>, <1-283> pages .

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Bookseller: James F. Balsley, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 17855
Title: Colonel Starbottle's Client & Some Other People
Author: Harte, Bret
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge
Place of Publication: Boston And New York
Date Published: (1892)
Bookseller catalogs: American Literature; British Literature; Fiction; American West; Short Stories;

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James F. Balsley, Bookseller

All books are warranted to be as described and genuine (unless stated otherwise in the description). Payment by check, US postal money order or cashier's check in USD will be accepted and should be made out to James F. Balsley. Checks may be held until cleared by the bank unless you are known to me. Checks must be drawn on a US bank. Credit cards are accepted through Biblio.com. Books may be returned for any reason within 10 days of receipt for a full refund of the purchase price provided the book is returned in the same condition in which it was shipped. If the return is because the description is inaccurate or other error on my part, I will also refund the postage both ways.

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James F. Balsley, Bookseller

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My business is strictly on-line sales. I carry an inventory of about 2000 books. About half of these are modern fiction. Most of the rest are scholarly academic books concentrated in the areas of natural science, philosophy, history, and literature.

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