harte bret i e francis brett harte (12 résultats)

Octavo, original decorated brown cloth. First edition. A collection of eight stories, the title story featuring the gambler Jack Hamlin, one of Harte's most popular characters. All the stories are set in California, several in the mining towns in the Sierra Nevada. BAL 7392. Wright(III) 2545. Early gift inscription on front free endpaper. Cloth rubbed at edges, mainly spine ends and corner tips, else a very good copy. (#113862).

Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-270 [271-272: blank], flyleaf at front, original brown cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold, gray green coated endpapers. First U.S. edition. The last of three short novels, A WAIF OF THE PLAINS (1890), SUSY, A STORY OF THE PLAINS (1893) and CLARENCE (1885), that comprise one complete story. The first part of CLARENCE is set in California; the second part is set in the field during the American Civil War, at which point, Clarence is a general in the Union army. "Clarence is developed from a boy, through circumstances, to a cool, determined man, showing at times the traits of his father, Hamilton Brant, the desperado, always keeping up to the standard of conduct he had set for himself as a boy." - Quinn, American Fiction, p. 239. Baird and Greenwood, California Fiction 1084. BAL 7376. Wright (III) 2530. Some spots on the cloth, mostly spine and rear panels, magazine clippings pasted to front endpapers, inner hinges cracked, a fair copy. (#164580).

12mo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-283 [284: blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated green cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, brown coated endpapers. First edition. A collection of short stories, most set in the mining communities of California's gold rush country. "A Passage in the Life of John Oakhurst" (1875) includes "one of Harte's best studies of a married flirt and some of his most blistering satire of hypocrisy. In 'Wan Lee, the Pagan' (1874) the loyalty of a Chinese boy, a thief, to a little girl and his death at the hands of a mob reveal Bret Harte in his search for redeeming qualities in apparently unpromising elements in California life." - Quinn, American Fiction, p. 237. Baird and Greenwood, California Fiction 1122. BAL 7280 (state B). Wright (III) 1121. Cloth worn at spine ends and corners, damp stain to cloth on front panel, inner hinges cracked but holding tight, a sound, internally clean copy. (#164579).

Octavo, original decorated gray green cloth. First edition. See Quinn, American Fiction, p. 239. Baird and Greenwood, California Fiction 1121. BAL 7365 (noted printing 1). Wright (III) 2554. Inked signature of early owner dated 9 February 1893 on front free endpaper. Cloth rubbed at edges, mainly spine ends and corner tips, cloth a bit scuffed on front and rear covers, else a very good copy. (#113863).

Octavo, original decorated green cloth. First U.S. edition. BAL 7367 (noted printing B). Wright (III) 2549. Inked signature of early owner dated 11 May 1893 on front free endpaper. A clean, bright, very good copy. A very early copy so most likely the first printing rather than BAL's "probable" second printing. (#113864).

Octavo, original decorated brown cloth. First U.S. edition. BAL 7378. Wright (III) 2541. Penciled signature of early owner dated 16 December 1895 on front free endpaper. A clean. bright, near fine copy. (#113861).

Small octavo, original decorated brown cloth stamped in gold and blind, gray coated endpapers, all edges stained orange. Second edition with text extended to page 317, first state with advertisements on page [ii] headed "By the same Author." BAL 7339. Wright (III) 2544. Neat early owner's signature on front flyleaf. A clean. bright, near fine copy. (#133807).

Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-283 [284: blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original brown cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold, blue green coated endpapers. First U.S. edition. Includes the humorous Christmas ghost story, "The Ghosts of Stukeley Castle." Bleiler (1978), p. 94. Wright (III) 2531. Cloth lightly worn at edges, a couple of mild spots to cloth, a tight, internally clean, good copy. (#170695).

Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-ix [x] xi [xii-xiv] [15-16] 17-466 [467] [468: blank], double flyleaves at front and rear, 33 inserted plates, full legal sheep, spine panel ruled in gold, black leather title label printed in gold, brown sprinkled edges, salmon coated endpapers. First U.S. edition. BAL notes two states of the title leaf, with no sequence determined. This copy has the integral title leaf with copyright notice reading "COPYRIGHTED," a copyright deposit copy thus. This book was issued by subscription in various binding formats, this being one of the more costly deluxe formats. Harte's only long novel, first published in SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY, November 1875 - August 1876. "While it cannot be said to have been completely successful, it hardly deserves the general condemnation under which it has fallen. Harte did not have the constructive ability for a novel, and the plot becomes at times confused, but the character of Gabriel Conroy is not by any means his worst creation, and the opening scene describing the castaways in the snow is in his very best manner." - Quinn, American Fiction, p. 239. Pattee considers GABRIEL CONROY to be "that chaotic book which has in it the materials for the greatest of American romances . the description of the snowstorm at the opening of GABRIEL CONROY reminds one of Thomas Hardy" (A History of American Literature Since 1870, pp. 69; 79). BAL 7285. Wright (III) 2539. Baird and Greenwood 1097. Leather rubbed at edges, 30 mm split at upper front joint, else a very good copy. Uncommon in this binding. (#107189).

Small quarto, nine lithographed cards enclosed in an original elaborately lithographed envelope. First printing of the first separate edition. Harte's poem first appeared as "Plain Language from Truthful James" in the September 1870 issue of the OVERLAND MONTHLY, an influential early California literary magazine edited by Harte. Born in Albany, N. Y., Francis Brett Harte (1838-1902), preeminently a man of the East, arrived in California in 1854 to join his widowed Mother who had moved there with a party of relatives and friends in 1853. In 1864, after a succession of jobs in Northern California: apothecary's assistant, teacher, private tutor, express messenger and typesetter, he moved to San Francisco where he "was connected with the GOLDEN ERA, first as a typesetter and later as an editor and contributor. In 1862 he was married. Two years later he was appointed Secretary of the California Mint, an office that allowed him abundant time for literary work. He was connected with Webb's brilliant and short-lived CALIFORNIAN, first as contributor and later as editor, and in 1868, when the OVERLAND MONTHLY, which was to be the ATLANTIC of Western America, was founded, he was made the editor. "The Luck of Roaring Camp" in the second number and "Plain Language from Truthful James" in the September, 1870, number, brought him a popularity that in suddenness and extent had had no precedent in America, save in the case of Mrs. Stowe and UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. The enormous applause intoxicated him; California became too narrow and provincial; and in 1871 he left it, joyous as one who is returning home after a long exile." - Pattee, A History of American Literature Since 1870, p. 67. BAL 7248 (printing 1). Merle Johnson, You Know These Lines!, pp. 71-75. First card a bit foxed, several cards cut slightly off center (as is usually the case; the cards were printed on a large sheet and then cut apart). The envelope is worn, foxed, missing its flap, and open on three sides. This set of cards is accompanied by another set of first printing cards, most of which are a bit tanned, which lacks the envelope. The set of cards with envelope is enclosed in a cloth folder and green crushed morocco slipcase which is worn at edges and has a faded spine panel. A classic of Western American literature. (#160995).

16.7x10.3 cm, pp. [1-7] 8-184 [185-196: ads] plus a leaf of ads inserted ahead of the penultimate leaf of ads, original pictorial wrappers. First printing of this collection. Collects fourteen stories: "The Man on the Beach," "The Saints of the Foothills," "'Jinny,'" "Roger Catron's Friend," "Who Was My Quiet Friend?," "A Ghost of the Sierras," "The Hoodlum Band (a Condensed Novel)," "The Man Whose Yoke Was Not Easy," "My Friend, the Tramp," "The Man from Solano," "The Office Seeker," "A Sleeping-car Experience," " Five O'clock in the Morning" and "With the Entrées." BAL 7472. Topp II, p. 188. Wrapper edges worn, small chip and tear in fore-edge of front wrapper, some paper loss and splits in spine panel. A rare Victorian paperback. Enclosed in an old quarter leather and marbled paper board slipcase with leather spine label. (#166901).

12mo, pp. [i-iii] iv [v-viii] 1-239 [240: blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated purple cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, brown coated endpapers. First edition. This famous collection of short stories includes the classic "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "M'liss" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat." The correct first edition, without the story "Brown of Calaveras." "Though other authors have done greater work, few have had a more profound influence on American letters than Bret Harte . In a literary sense Harte's writings are historically among the most important of the local color school. In the larger sense he failed to report the forces which were developing the frontier. Yet despite his posturing and tendency to caricature, there was vitality in his method, and he was the first to create a type and form which, with timely modifications, have until recently dominated short story literature." - Fullerton, Selective Bibliography of American Literature 1775-1900, pp. 129-30. Grolier Club, One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900, no. 76. Powell, California Classics no. 7. Zamorano Eighty 40. BAL 7246. Wright (II) 1117. Bookplate of Edmund Smith Hopkins affixed to the front paste-down. Spine a bit sunned, a fine copy. This book is uncommon in nice condition. A stunning copy. (#164556).