Search Results: Novels and Stories Of Bret Harte by Bret Harte

The Jefferson Press, 1905. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1905. No Edition Remarks. 172 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Burgundy cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Noticeable tanning to rough-cut text block edges. Stamps to pages. Cracking to front hinge, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inserts and small area of loss to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and heavy crushing to spine ends, causing cloth to fray. Book has noticeable backward lean. Sunning to spine.

The Jefferson Press, 1903. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1903. No Edition Remarks. 294 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Burgundy cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Noticeable tanning to rough-cut text block edges. Cracking to rear hinge, with exposed netting. Stamps throughout. Heavy tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inserts to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and heavy crushing to spine ends, causing cloth to fray. Book has noticeable backward lean with sunning to spine.

The Jefferson Press, 1891. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1891. No Edition Remarks. 301 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Burgundy cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Stamps throughout with heavy tanning to spine. Cracking to front hinge, with exposed netting. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with plates to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and heavy crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed with heavy sunning to spine.

The Jefferson Press, 1895. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1895. No Edition Remarks. 270 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Burgundy cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Stamps to most of the pages. Cracking to front hinge, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inserts to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and heavy crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean, with heavy sunning to spine.

The Jefferson Press, 1899. Hard cover. Very Good/No dustjacket. Some discoloration to spine label. "The Luck of Roaring Camp" is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence. The story is about the birth of a baby boy in a 19th-century gold prospecting camp. The boy's mother, Cherokee Sal, dies in childbirth, so the men of Roaring Camp must raise it themselves. Believing the child to be a good luck charm, the miners christen the boy Thomas Luck. Afterwards, they decide to refine their behavior and refrain from gambling and fighting.Roaring Camp was a real place. It was a goldmining settlement on the Mokelumne River in Amador County, California. It was home to forty-niners seeking gold in and around the river; it is now a privately owned tourist attraction. The story's flood theme may have been inspired by California's Great Flood of 1862, which Harte… Read More

The Jefferson Press, 1891. Hard cover. Very good. Some discoloration to spine label. Excerpt from Novels and Stories of Bret Harte: Cressy, And, a First Family of TasajaraAs the master of the Indian Spring school emerged from the pine woods into the little clearing before the schoolhouse, he stopped whistling, put his hat less jauntily on his head, threw away some wild flowers he had gathered on his way, and otherwise assumed the severe demeanor of his profession and his mature age - which was at least twenty. Not that he usually felt this an assumption; it was a firm conviction of his serious nature that he impressed others, as he did himself, with the blended austerity and ennui of deep and exhausted experience. Bret Harte (HART; born Francis Brett Hart; August 25, 1836 - May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also… Read More

USA: THE JEFFERSON PRESS, 1905. HARDCOVER. GOOD/N0 JACKET. The Jefferson Press, USA, 1905, hardcover, unmarked, clean clear text, leather and cloth binding, good book, no jacket, collectible, not remaindered, bookclub or library

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