The Crusade of the Excelsior (First Edition)
by Harte, Bret
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- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1887. FIRST EDITION, first printing, full red cloth with black lettering on the front cover and spine, heavily worn with lettering faeded, fraying of the cloth at the top & bottom of the spine, edges bumped bending wear and starting. Overall in POOR condition. A READING copy only. Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. . First Edition. Full Cloth. Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
Synopsis
It was the 4th of August, 1854, off Cape Corrientes. Morning was breaking over a heavy sea, and the closely-reefed topsails of a barque that ran before it bearing down upon the faint outline of the Mexican coast. Already the white peak of Colima showed, ghost- like, in the east; already the long sweep of the Pacific was gathering strength and volume as it swept uninterruptedly into the opening Gulf of California.
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- Ziern-Hanon Galleries
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008831
- Title
- The Crusade of the Excelsior (First Edition)
- Author
- Harte, Bret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1887
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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