The Luck of Roaring Camp, and other sketches...
Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870.
8vo, vii, 256 pp. Original russet cloth, neatly repaired, faint stain and bubbling to the upper board, front blank excised. A very good copy.
§ Second edition, far rarer than the first, expanded with an additional story not in the first edition. This collection of stories by Harte is a landmark of classic California literature, with the eponymous story rivaled in importance only by Twain’s “Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” BAL 7247. Zamorano Eighty 40. Grolier American Hundred 76. (106475). Item #106476
Price: $500.00
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