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Author: Harte, Bret
Title: The Writings of Bret Harte
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin and Company
Date Published: [1896]-1903.
Description:

20 volumes. With 129 plates including frontispieces, two double-page maps and 20 pictorial title pages. All plates mounted India paper prints. 28 plates signed in pencil by the artists, and signed by Bret Harte in volume 1. (8vo), original half red morocco by the Riverside Press, marbled endpapers, gilt to backstrip with top edges gilt. No. 195 of 350.

The Autograph Edition limited to 350 sets, with volume I signed by the author: “Bret Harte / Septem. 1896”. Including the 20th volume, issued twelve years after the 19th volume and well after the author’s death. Artists represented are Otto H. Bacher, Ethel I. Brown, J. M. Burns, B. West Clinedinst, T. de Thulstrup, Frederick Dielman, J. M. Flagg, Thomas Fogarty, Mary Hallock Foote (2), Malcolm Fraser (2), Arthur I. Keller (2), Orson Lowell (2), Frederick McCormick, Frank T. Merrill, Eric Pape, Frederic Remington (signed vol. 5), Guy Rose, E. Boyd Smith (3), Alice Barber Stephens (2), Seymour M. Stone, and W. L. Taylor. BAL 7384. Despite the size of the edition, complete sets of all 20 volumes are quite uncommon. (9088). Due to the size of this lot extra shipping charges will apply.

A very fine set virtually in perfect condition.