The Best Short Stories of Bret Harte (The Modern Library, No. 250)
New York: The Modern Library, 1947. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Item #2324964
1947 first thus, Toledano 250.1, binding/jacket style 8h with 322 titles on verso, $1.10 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Very good in good jacket. Ink gift note on front free endpaper, two 1 inch jacket chips.
x, 517 pp. A collection of western short stories by Bret Harte, edited with an introduction by Robert N. Linscott. Includes: Introduction; The Luck of Roaring Camp; The Outcasts of Poker Flat; Tennessee's Partner; Brown of Calaveras; The Iliad of Sandy Bar; The Poet of Sierra Flat; How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar; A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst; An Heiress of Red Dog; An Ingenue of the Sierras; Chu Chu; The Devotion of Enriquez; A Yellow Dog; Salomy Jane's Kiss; Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy; Dick Spindler's Family Christmas; An Esmeralda of Rocky Canon [Canyon]; The Boom in the 'Calaveras Clarion'; The Youngest Miss Piper; Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff; Lanty Foster's Mistake; The Four Guardians of Lagrange; A Ward of Colonel Starbottle's The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin; A Gentleman of La Porte.
Price: $15.00