Author: Bret Harte
Title: The Writings of Bret Harte
Description: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company , 1899-1914. Cloth. A collection complete in twenty uniformly bound volumes of the standard library edition of the works of Bret Harte. Bret Harte was a short story writer and poem, known as the author of numerous pieces of fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush, tales which have often been reprinted and adapted. The present collection, complete in twenty uniformly bound volumes, comprises numerous pieces of fiction, poetry, lectures, and more by this American author. The standard library edition, published from 1899 to 1914. Each volume is complete with its frontispiece and a vignette engraved title page as well as full page photogravures and other illustrations listed below. The present collection is comprised of:'The Luck of Roaring Camp and other Tales' with condensed novels, Spanish and American legends, and earlier papers. Introduced by the author. With five full page plates. Collated, complete.'Tales of the Argonauts.' With six full page plates. Collated, complete. 'The Story of a Mine and other Tales.' With six full page plates. Collated, complete. 'In the Carquinez Woods and other Tales.' With four full page plates. Collated, complete. 'Maruja and other Tales.' With four full page plates. Collated, complete. 'The Crusade of the Excelsior and other Tales.' With four full page plates. Collated, complete. 'Cressy and other Tales.' With five full page plates. Collated, complete. 'A First Family of Tasajara and other Tales.' With four full page plates. Collated, complete. 'A Waif of the Plains and other Tales.' With five full page plates. Collated, complete. 'In a Hollow of the Hills and other Tales.' With four full page plates. Collated, complete. 'Thankful Blossom and other Eastern Tales and Sketches.' With five full page plates. Collated, complete. 'Poems and Two Men of Sandy Bar: A Drama.' With  five full page plates. Collated, complete. 'Gabriel Conroy: Bohemian Papers, Stories of and for the Young' in two volumes. With eight full page plates. Collated, complete. 'Three Partners and other Tales.' With four full page plates. Collated, complete. 'The Ancestors of Peter Atherly and other Tales.' With four full page plates. Collated, complete. 'A Niece of Snapshot Harry's and other Tales.' With four full page plates. Collated, complete. 'A Treasure of the Redwoods and other Tales.' With four full page plates. Collated, complete. 'Trent's Trust and other Stories.' With four full page plates. Collated, complete. 'Stories and Poems and other Uncollected Writings' compiled by Charles Meeker Kozlay, with an introduction on account of Harte's early contributions to the California Press. With three full page plates. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding with gilt to the top edge. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, minor bumping and some chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Minor darkening to the spine. The backstrip of vol. IV is now laid down. Previous ownership stamp to the front and rear pastedowns, 'William barker Jr.' Internally, generally firmly bound slightly tender to vol. XV. The front hinge of vol. I, VIII, IX, and XI is only just starting. The pages are generally bright and clean with only the odd spot to the odd leaf of the occasional volume. Pages 35-46 of vol. VII roughly cut at the edges, not affecting the text. Illustrated with numerous full page plates, more information in the description. Collated, complete. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

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