THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF BRET HARTE by LINSCOTT, ROBERT N., ED

New York : The Modern Library , 1947. Hardcover. Good. 5 x 7 1/2. 517 pages; unmarked. Pages have slightly age toned. Top page edge stained blue. Red cloth boards have bumping of corners and slight fading. Some slight ripple to the cloth in places. First Thus.

Random House, 1947. Hardcover. Good. No DJ. No DJ. Some staining, wear on cover. Modern Library; blue cloth boards. Good+.

New York: Modern Library, 1963. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Later printing.. Modern Library No. 250 in illustrated dust jacket. Toledano binding no. 10. Very clean blue cloth boards with blind-stamped hexagon logo on cover, gold lettering and torchbearer on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean Kent style endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Pages and edges are clean. Edited, with an Introduction by Robert N. Linscott. 517 pages. Clean illustrated jacket has edge wear, closed tears, chip at top edge of rear panel; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

Modern Library NY/Random House, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. 12 mo., hardcover, near fine in VG blue and yellow pictorial dj (with modest edgewear). This collection includes twenty-five of the best stories of Bret harte, outstanding chronicler of the turbulent Western frontier. Here in short is a cross-section of American life during its most adventurous and picturesque era, described in some of the best short stories that any American has written. Includes his famous "The Luck of Roaring Camp". 517 pp.

Modern Library. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Western stories) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

The Modern Library, 1947. Hardback in near fine condition with very good condition dust jacket. Dust jacket is clipped.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

First Modern Library Edition, 1947. Pages are clean and unmarked, but a bit age-tanned. Cloth boards are in good shape; spine slightly faded. Gold lettering in black inlay on the spine, still in good shape. No dust jacket.

New York: The Modern Library, 1947. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x1. 1947 first thus, Toledano 250.1, binding/jacket style 8h with 322 titles on verso, $1.10 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Very good in good jacket. Ink gift note on front free endpaper, two 1 inch jacket chips. x, 517 pp. A collection of western short stories by Bret Harte, edited with an introduction by Robert N. Linscott. Includes: Introduction; The Luck of Roaring Camp; The Outcasts of Poker Flat; Tennessee's Partner; Brown of Calaveras; The Iliad of Sandy Bar; The Poet of Sierra Flat; How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar; A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst; An Heiress of Red Dog; An Ingenue of the Sierras; Chu Chu; The Devotion of Enriquez; A Yellow Dog; Salomy Jane's Kiss; Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy; Dick Spindler's Family Christmas; An Esmeralda of Rocky Canon [Canyon]; The Boom in the 'Calaveras Clarion'; The Youngest Miss Piper; Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff;… Read More

Modern Library. hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1x6x9.

Modern Library, 1947. Early printing. Inked in name, near fine.. Red cloth, lacking dust jacket.