Openings in the Old Trail
by Harte, Bret
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1902 332pp + 2 pp.adverts at rear. Hardcover, 12mo., in publisher's red cloth binding with titles in gold and black. Printed at the Riverside Press, dated April, 1902. First Boston edition, third printing. This collection of short stories was published roughly a month before the author's death. Francis Brett Hart (1836 - 1902) was famous for his tales of the miners and gamblers of the California Gold Rush. Included are: "A Mercury of the Foot-Hills," "Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff," "The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel," "A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance," "The Reincarnation of Smith," "Lanty Foster's Mistake," "An Ali Baba of the Sierras," "Miss Peggy's Proteges," and The Goddess of Excelsior." Condition: Very Good with old light shelfwear to covers, slight lean. BAL 7398.. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8198
- Title
- Openings in the Old Trail
- Author
- Harte, Bret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1902
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