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The Writings of Bret Harte (Standard Library Edition) , in Twenty Volumes
by Harte, Bret
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Many volumes with owner name (Dr. F. W. Searle) on front free endpapers, several volumes with sp
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Many volumes with owner name (Dr. F. W. . Searle) on front free endpapers, several volumes with spines cocked, . boards lightly rubbed and sunned at spines, Vol. I has different owner . name on ffep and much more sunned and foxed spine.. 1896-1914. Hardcover. Complete in twenty volumes. Uniformly bound in gilt-decorated green cloth. Top edges gilt. Many photogravures and illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens, Frederic Remington, E. Boyd Smith, T. De Thulstrup, Ethel I. Brown, Malcolm Fraser, C. M. Russell, Frank T. Merrill, J. M. Flagg, B. West Clinedinst, Arthur I. Keller, Mary Hallock Foote, and others. Also includes some volumes with introductions, indices, and glosary. Vol. I - The Luck of the Roraring Camp and Other Tales; Vol. II - Tales of the Argonauts; Vol. III - The Story of a Mine and Other Tales; Vol. IV - In the Carquinez Woods and Other Tales; Vol. V - Maruja and Other Tales; Vol. VI - The Crusade of the Excelsior and Other Tales; Vol. VII - Cressy and Other Tales; Vol. VIII - A Family of Tasajara and Other Tales; Vol. IX - A Waif of the Plains and Other Tales; Vol. X - In a Hollow of the Hills and Other Tales; Vol. XI - Thankful Blossom and Other Eastern Sketches and Tales; Vol. XII - Poems and Two Men of Sandy Bar: A Drama; Vol. XIII - Gabriel Conroy: Bohemian Papers, Stories of and for the Very Young, vol. I; Vol. XIV - Gabriel Conroy: Bohemian Papers, Stories of and for the Very Young, vol. II; Vol. XV - Three Partners and Other Tales; Vol. XVI - The Ancestors of Peter Atherly and Other Tales; Vol. XVII - A Niece of Snapshot Harry's and Other Tales; Vol. XVIII - A Treasure of the Redwoods and Other Tales; Vol. XIX - Trent's Trust and Other Stories; Vol. XX - Stories and Poems and Other Uncollected Writings. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37173
- Title
- The Writings of Bret Harte (Standard Library Edition) , in Twenty Volumes
- Author
- Harte, Bret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Many volumes with owner name (Dr. F. W. Searle) on front free endpapers, several volumes with sp
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1896-1914
- Keywords
- BRET Harte, Illustrated Sets
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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