The Lost Galleon and Other Tales by Bret Harte - 2012-01-10

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

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San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good++. 12mo. 108(1)pp. Bound in brown pictorial gilt cloth over beveled boards depicting a ship's sail; internally finlight cover edge wear.

Towne & Bacon, San Francisco, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. HARTE, BRET. The Lost Galleon and Other Tales, San Francisco, Towne & Bacon, 1867.12mo, first edition, pp. 108, 1 (notes), green cloth boards with beveled edges and gilt mast and sail outlining title on front, label on free front endpaper identifying this as part of the Estelle Doheny Collection of American Literature. Doheny, wife of the oil baron played by Daniel Day Lewis in "There Will Be Blood," amassed a valuable collection that was dispersed in auctions after she died in 1988. Doheny acquired the book from Frederick W. Skiff, another voracious collector, based in Portland, Ore. His bookplate, an elaborate sporting pictorial, is on the front pastedown (see below). This plate was designed by W.H. Hopson and is a small gem of American graphic art. Frank Weitenkampf, in "American Graphic Art," called Hopson's bookplates "that… Read More

San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, 1867. First Edition . Cloth. About Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, 1867. First Edition. BAL 7242. 12mo, 108 pp. + 1 page notes. Original russet cloth with gilt stamped mast and sail decoration on front cover bearng, in intaglio, the title. Rubbing at covers, corners /spine ends showing a bit; front pastedown stained from removed bookplate, one signature sprung. Closely approaching but just a bit short of very good. See scans. Harte's second book, a collection of poems including the lengthy title piece. An Albany, NY native who later moved to California and, after writing in San Francisco for The Californian, where he worked with Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard and others, he became first editor of the Overland Monthly. "The Luck of Roaring Camp" , published there, established his fame. But he had loved poetry since childhood - when he had had several poems published by the age of… Read More