With: Outcroppings: Being Selections of California Verse. 144 pp. Purple cloth, gilt title on spine. State A(?), unrecorded variant binding; plus misprint “Sraining” on p.[70] and no ornament at the foot of p. 102. (see BAL 7238). Early gift inscription. SF: Roman, 1866. * Condensed Novels. BAL 7240. With custom slipcase. Carleton, 1867. * Poems. 2 copies: 1st issue (green cloth), signature of Charles A. Jackson dated 1870; & early printing (brown cloth). BAL 7253. Fields, Osgood, 1871. * Condensed Novels. BAL 7255. Osgood, 1871. * Upon the Stanislow [sheet music]. Wraps (litho. cover). BAL 7441. Ditson, 1971. * Tales of the Argonauts. 2 copies: Printing “A” & “B”. BAL 7280. Osgood, 1875. * The Twins of Table Mountain. State “B”. BAL 7308. Chatto & Windus, 1879. * By Shore and Sedge. Binding “A”. BAL 7330. Houghton, Mifflin, 1885. * Snow-Bound at Eagle’s. (see BAL 7501). Ward & Downey, 1886. * Frontier Stories. BAL 7507. Houghton Mifflin, 1887. * A Waif of the Plains. (see BAL 7349, binding 2). Custom slipcase. Chatto & Windus, 1890. * A Ward of the Golden Gate. BAL 7353. Elinor Roberts’ Memorial Trustees library copy, with their bookplate and rubberstamp. Chatto & Windus, 1890. * Bret Harte Birthday Book. BAL 7520. Osgood, 1892. * Susy. Original dec. cloth, custom slipcase. Binding “A” (see BAL 7365). Early gift inscription; bookplate. Chatto & Windus, 1893. * Sally Dows. 2 copies, 1 in custom slipcase. BAL 7366. Chatto & Windus, 1893. * Jack Hamlin’s Protégée. (see BAL 7369). Front free endpaper affixed to front pastedown. Chatto & Windus,, 1894. * The Bell-Ringer of Angel’s. (see BAL 7373). Chatto & Windus, 1894. * Stories, Sketches, and Bohemian Papers. Reprint Ed. Ward, Lock, Bowden, [c.1890’s]. * Barker’s Luck. 2 copies. (see BAL 7381). Chatto & Windus, 1896. * Tales of Trail and Town. (see BAL 7387). Chatto & Windus, 1898. * Mr. Jack Hamlin’s Mediation. (see BAL 7392). Pearson, 1899. * Under the Redwoods. (see BAL 7396). Pearson, 1901. * The Letters of Bret Harte. Ex-library copy. Hodder & Stoughton, no date. * Reau. La Societe Californienne de 1850 d’Apres Bret Harte. 2 copies. One inscribed & signed by Reau “to the ‘Argonaut” at Mills College. Wraps. Paris: 1921. * Newbegin. Bibliography of Bret Harte. Staple sheets, 9 leaves plus covers. San Francisco: 1927. * Concerning “Condensed Novels”… No. 62 of 150, signed Van Patten (intro. & bibliographical notes). Slipcase. Stanford, 1929. * The Heathen Chinee…by Harte and Bibliographical Notes…by Robert Cowan. 2 vols. Folio. Uniform red wraps. Nash, 1934. * The Right Eye of the Commander. 2 copies: 1 of 75 hand-colored copies (green cloth) & 1 of 275 copies (tan cloth). BAL 7560. Bentley, 1937. * Muck-A-Muck. 1 of 75. Wraps. X-mas card of Ruth & James Hart, laid in. BAL 7565. [1942]. * The Improved Aesop. Wraps. 1 of 250. BAL 7568. [1946]. * How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar. 1 of 500, slipcase. BAL 7565. Ward Ritchie, no date. * Morrow. Breat Harte, Literary Critic. Dj. Bowling Green State, 1979. * Scharnhorst, ed. Bret Harte’s California… Dj. U. of NM, [1990]. * Scharnhorst, ed. Selected Letters of… Dj. U. of OK, [1997]. Together, 41 volumes. 12mo to 8vo. Original cloth bindings; 7 in wrappers. First Editions, except one.
Francis Bret Harte (1836–1902) the prolific American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. From the Inventory/Library of Jeffrey Thomas, Fine & Rare Books (a Bret Harte scholar and purveyor).
Condition:
General wear overall; soiling, shelf wear, several spines sunned and/or leaning, occasional foxing, some with owner’s signatures or stamps, etc., other mild wear; mostly very good, later books near fine or better. Sold as is.