Openings in the Old Trail
by HARTE, Bret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. A first edition, dated April 1902, of a collection of nine short stories by Bret Harte (1836-1902), published a month before the author's death in England. Includes the author's "A Mercury of the Foot-Hills" and eight other stories. --- Bound in full red cloth-covered boards with cover titling and decorations in black; spine titling in gilt. Lacks the dust jacket. --- With prior owner's signatures to front free endpaper and title page, else a tightly-bound, unmarked, sound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; (6), 332, (4) pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87050
- Title
- Openings in the Old Trail
- Author
- HARTE, Bret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1902
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...