The Best Short Stories of Bret Harte by Harte, Bret - 1947

The Modern Library, 1947. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Red cloth over boards, spine faded. Corners rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Page edges are age toned, a few corners turned. Lacking DJ

Modern Library NY/Random House, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. 12 mo., hardcover, near fine in VG blue and yellow pictorial dj (with modest edgewear). This collection includes twenty-five of the best stories of Bret harte, outstanding chronicler of the turbulent Western frontier. Here in short is a cross-section of American life during its most adventurous and picturesque era, described in some of the best short stories that any American has written. Includes his famous "The Luck of Roaring Camp". 517 pp.

New York: Modern Library, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint; red cloth with black title blocks, 12mo, 517 pages, Toledano binding style 8, Kent endpapers, 344 titles inside dust jacket; name at top of front endpaper, dust jacket has light edge wear and faint crease from head to tail of spine.

New York: The Modern Library Book. Good. Hardcover. (1947), small 8vo, x, 517pp. Light wear, previous owner's three line birthday note on half title page, else VG in G lightly chipped dust jacket with upper corner of front panel, smudged. From the DJ: "This collection includes 25 of the best stories of Bret Harte, outstanding chronicler of the turbulent Western frontier.".

New York: Modern Library, 1947. Nice copy. Tight and square. Ink address on front endpaper. No other markings. Price intact jacket is sunned to red portion of spine. Minor edgewear. In mylar. . Early Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Modern Library, 1946. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Modern Library Edition. Shallow chipping and fading to jacket. .

First Modern Library Edition, 1947. Pages are clean and unmarked, but a bit age-tanned. Cloth boards are in good shape; spine slightly faded. Gold lettering in black inlay on the spine, still in good shape. No dust jacket.

The Modern Library, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Red cloth over boards, spine faded. Clean throughout. DJ has slight wear on edges, in an archival cover. Modern Library #250

The Modern Library, 1947. Hardcover. Fine. Duodecimo. Price clipped, else a near fine jacket. Red cloth with torchbearer in black square and Rockwell Kent endpapers. A nice oldie.

Modern Library. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (Short Stories, Fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.