Outcroppings: Being Selections of California Verse
by Harte, Bret (Uncredited editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: A. Roman. Fair with no dust jacket. 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth stamped in gilt. Signed to the ffep and to the title page "Bret Harte 1898." Form A of six variations. PO inscription of Paul Lemperly, Jan 22, 1899. With Lemperly's bookplate. Lemperly was a well-known book collector and member of the Rowfant Club in Cleveland. Spine ends frayed, cloth soiled/rubbed, front hinge cracked, few stains to pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40026
- Title
- Outcroppings: Being Selections of California Verse
- Author
- Harte, Bret (Uncredited editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- A. Roman
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1866
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- Hinge
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- Cracked
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- Gilt
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