Her Letter
by Harte, Bret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. First edition thus. First illustrated edition. BAL 7541. Published Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905, first printing. 8vo., 6 1/2" x 9." Unpaginated [96 pp.]. Illustrated by Arthur Keller with full color, sepia and b/w plates and black and gilt page decorations, . Green and white patterned cloth with green titles and black and gilt inlaid cover pictorial, decorative endpapers, color frontis and title page, top edge gilt, captioned tissue guards over the color plates. Slight trace or rub to the cloth at heel and crown, small impression mark on the top edge gilt, else very good plus, clean, crisp copy.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003982
- Title
- Her Letter
- Author
- Harte, Bret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- LITERATURE AMERICAN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
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The Wild Muse
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About The Wild Muse
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