Harte, Bret:

$750 · Offered by William Reese Company

UNDER THE REDWOODS. First American edition, BAL's printing 2, spine imprint A. The UK edition may have been issued simultaneously. With Harte's presentation inscription on the front free endsheet: "Madame Van de Velde from her friend Bret Harte The Red House, Camberley." "Monsieur and Madame Van de Velde, to whom Bret Harte so often refers in his letters, were his closest and most devoted friends. He met them during the time he was in Glasgow, and had known them for over five years when he came to stay with them in London....Both understood the need that Bret Harte had for friendship and congenial surroundings, and their home, as long as Monsieur Van de Velde was alive, was the refuge to which he [Harte] always turned when in need of comprehension. After his departure from Glasgow, he came to London, and for some time was an inmate of their house" (Harte, ed., Letters).

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