Gabriel Conroy
by Harte, Bret
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1876. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, brown cloth, gilt titling only on spine.
Second issue (no priority): the title-leaf is not a cancel, and the copyright notice reads, "Copyrighted [sic]"; in state 2 of the binding in brown S cloth without a small bear stamped in black on the spine [ BAL 7285; Wright III: 2539]. This American edition has a dedication and illustrations which are not in the first edition in London. Humorous romantic fiction of the California Gold Rush.
Second issue (no priority): the title-leaf is not a cancel, and the copyright notice reads, "Copyrighted [sic]"; in state 2 of the binding in brown S cloth without a small bear stamped in black on the spine [ BAL 7285; Wright III: 2539]. This American edition has a dedication and illustrations which are not in the first edition in London. Humorous romantic fiction of the California Gold Rush.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0006913
- Title
- Gabriel Conroy
- Author
- Harte, Bret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- American Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, CT
- Date Published
- 1876
- Keywords
- Gold Rush, California fiction,
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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