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
- Illustrator:
- 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
- Language:
- Incipit:
- Reference:
- 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.
Contents
- Title
- Bret Harte. The Luck of the Roaring Camp. The Out-casts of Poker Flat. Tennessee’s Partner.
- --
- Printed by
- 3-25
- The Luck of Roaring Camp
- 29-51
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat
- 55-74
- Tennessee’s Partner
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- Colophon