The Luck of Roaring Camp, and other sketches..

by Bret Harte

$500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870. 8vo, vii, 256 pp. Original russet cloth, neatly repaired, faint stain and bubbling to the upper board, front blank excised. A very good copy. § Second edition, far rarer than the first, expanded with an additional story not in the first edition. This collection of stories by Harte is a landmark of classic California literature, with the eponymous story rivaled in importance only by Twain’s “Jumping Frog of Calaveras

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