The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches

by Bret Harte

$700 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. First edition, first issue without the story Brown of Calaveras. viii , 239 pp. Original burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers. An attractive unsophisticated copy in much better shape than usually found. Front hinge cracked, else Near Fine with a few tiny spots of insecting to spine, just a little bubble to front cloth, rubbing to extremities. Gilt bright-- this

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