Openings in the Old Trail
by Harte, Bret
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 331 pages. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Light rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Light foxing to end papers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy. A collection of nine short stories by Bret Harte (1836-1902), published a month before the author's death in England. Includes the author's "A Mercury of the Foot-Hills" and eight other stories. Record # 385070
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 385070
- Title
- Openings in the Old Trail
- Author
- Harte, Bret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Fiction Short Stories, ShortStories, , .
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.