Autograph Manuscript Signed, of a short story: An Episode of the West Woodlands

by Bret Harte

$7,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Signed

29pp., written recto only, about 7400 words. Signed and dated on the final page. Draft with cross-outs and corrections. Each leaf inlaid. 4to. Later full burgundy morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, repair to joint of upper cover, wear to joints, slipcase. Provenance: William W. Carman Parke Bernet, April 29, 1953, lot 187 . Item #375221 Published within Harte's A Protégée of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories Boston and New York:

• Binding: Leather

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