The Luck Of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches

Brownish/red embossed cloth hard cover book. Assumed First edition and first issue without story "Brown of Calveras". 239 pages. 4 5/8" x 7 1/4". Clean copy with only writing is pencil mark inside front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine edges are worn and corners are bumped. Book is in overall very good condition. Book will ship well packaged and… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1870. Hardcover. Fair. First edition, second issue containing "Brown of Calaveras". 12mo. 256pp. Original burgundy cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Owner's name neatly penned on preliminary, hinges cracked, small dampstain on page foredges, spine darkened with loss on the ends affecting spine title, lacking the half-title, thus fair only.

The Spencer Press. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1937. Hardcover. As a novelist, poet, and statesman, Francis Bret Harte was bound to have led a life directing him into many fascinating channels. Most of the literary works which he left behind, show he spent on the California frontier in the days of the gold rush. Born… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1870. First Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. Octavo, 239 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with gilt titling to spine. Housed in a custom slipcase, quarter bound in green calf with green cloth boards and paneled spine with gilt titling; green cloth chemise. Mild wear and rubbing to slipcase. Ownership inscription… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First Edition, Second Issue. Blindstamped cloth. Very Good. Contains the story, "Brown of Calaveras", and thus the second issue. The first edition of Harte's most famous story, of course. 8vo. 183 by 122 mm. iv, [4], 256 pp. Condition: light rubbing of spine extremities, with… Read more about this item

Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870.. Second ed., containing "Brown of Calaveras" not in first. 12mo. 256 pp. VG- in mauve cloth, spine faded, tape repairs to first couple of pages, damp stains first and last twenty pages and rear end paper, in clear protective mylar jacket. Bookseller stamp and ex-libris John Ruyle label… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1870. First edition, first issue of Harte's seminal California work without the story "Brown of Calaveras." BAL 7246. Octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Ownership name. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise slipcase. First published in the August 1868 issue of the… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Second issue with the story titled Brown of Calaveras. iv, [iv], 256pp. Brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides, spine lettered in gold. With the stamp and signature of S. S. Pinkerton of Oil City, PA, on the title page. Owner's name and light scribble on flyleaf. The spine… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1871. Good+ in the publisher's pebbled maroon cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt; both the front and rear boards are blind-ruled. Chocolate-brown endpapers. 256pps. 2nd edition, with "Brown of Calaveras" added. There is modest rubbing to the board-edges and the spine is a bit sunned. There is, also,… Read more about this item

hardcover, all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. Hardcover. Good. Later issue. 256pp. Contains the story "Brown of Calaveras." Pages stained, cloth soiled, spine ends frayed, thus good only.

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1870. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. Second edition. 12mo. Good only. Hinges cracked. Stains on inside front cover. Corner on front fly chipped. Cover corners worn and bent. Spine ends worn, frayed. Spine darkened.

Boston:: Fields, Osgood, & Co.,, 1870.. First edition.. publisher's green cloth.. Cloth frayed at the extremities of the spine and slightly at the corners; old ink signature; small ticket roughly removed from the rear pastedown; light overall use. . 12mo,. BAL 7246.

Boston:: Fields, Osgood, & Co.,, 1870.. First edition.. publisher's rust cloth.. A good to very good copy, tight and sound, with rubbing to the extremities of the cloth.. 12mo,. BAL 7246.

Boston: Osgood & Co, 1871. Hardcover. Good. Later. Good Hardcover, Later Edition. Book has minor wear and tear of spine ends and cover edges, light fading spine and covers, cracked hinges, text is clean. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please… Read more about this item

Boston: Osgood, 1871. Hardcover. Good. Good Light browning of pages with some foxing. Light warp to pages. Articles on book glued inside both covers. Covers rubbed with light wear to spine ends, corners, Spine sunned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards.… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co.. Good. 1870. Hardcover. First Issue. Half leather and marbled boards, 239 pages, pg 11-12 repaired. Spine and edges are scuffed and rubbed. Bookplate on front paste down- "The Library Company of Philadelphia." Contents show some light foxing and toning, but complete. Good. .

The Spencer Press, 1937-01-01. Hardcover. Good.

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Zamorarno 80 number 40, Second Edition,1871 on title page, Chapter "Brown of Calaveras" present starting on page 89. 256 pages Very Good Minus, publishers green blind stamped cloth binding, overall lightly faded, gilt title to spine light wear to binding and wear to head and heel, chipping with loss… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields Osgood, 1870. 1st . Hardcover. Very good. 2nd issue that includes the sketch "Brown of Calaveras." Cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Minor shelf wear. Very good condition.