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The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches
by Harte, Bret
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co, 1871. First edition, second issue containing the story "Brown of Calaveras" omitted from the 1870 issue. Hard cover in blind embossed green cloth with gilt spine titles and designs, brown endpapers. Published Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1871. 12mo., (viii)+256pp. Minor edge chip to the rear flyleaf/pastedown, else about fine, crisp, bright, tight. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008517
- Title
- The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches
- Author
- Harte, Bret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Fields, Osgood & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1871
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 12mo
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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