Poems

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company. Very Good-. 1871. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, unrecorded variant with publisher's FO monogram on bottom spine end of the book cover, and James R. Osgood monogram on the title page, along with T. S. K. Caption (corrected) on page 136. With rust colored cloth covered boards. The book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends have noticeable bumping, rubbing, wear and light fraying, as do the corners and edges. There are a couple of small spots of discoloration to the rear covers and there is generalized rubbing to the cloth. The text pages are generally clean, though there are occasional spots of foxing, especially to the first twenty pages or so. The text block is a bit loose. There is a previous owner's inked notation (the book number of his personal library) on the reverse of the front endpaper. The endpapers are a coated chocolate brown color. The contents pages has a spot of ground-in dirt / rubbing. "Harte moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist; he was also secretary of the San Francisco Mint. [10] He spent part of his life in the northern California coastal town of Union (now Arcata) , a settlement on Humboldt Bay, as a tutor and school teacher, then a printer's devil on The Northern Californian, and went on to reporting news, writing poems, and occasionally, acting editor, leaving after three years, from lynching threats for writing an editorial about the 26 February 1860 Wiyot massacre. " (from Wikipedia) .