Bret Harte The Luck of the Roaring Camp

Bookplate

Item:: Book Club of California
Title:: Bret Harte. The Luck of the Roaring Camp. The Out-casts of Poker Flat. Tennessee’s Partner.
Author:: Bret Harte
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Printer:: John Henry Nash at Blair-Murdock Co. / Book Club of California
Place of Printing:: San Francisco, CA
Date of Printing:: 1916
Format:: 7.75 x 5 inches
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McCune Location:: So. 3 #3

Author and Commentators

Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902). American writer and poet. Born in New York, Harte moved to California in 1853. He worked as a journalist and was an acquaintance of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). Harte wrote a number of pieces about California and the miners. Later in his life he was appointed to the position of Consul in Germany and then Scotland.

The Book

#46 of 260 copies. The book is uncut. The covers are gray with a paste-on title on the spine. There is a portrait of Bret Harte on the title page. It was printed by Blair-Murdock Co. of San Francisco under the direction of John Henry Nash

Ex libris of Robert Ernest Cowan (1862-1942), noted bibliographer and librarian. The book plate shows the ship San Carlos with the date 1769.