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Modern Library, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Modern Library, 1947. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Modern Library, 1947. VG/VG. Trace of shelfwear. DJ w/ bit of rubbing/edgewear; few tiny chips; spine tad faded; in dustjacket protector. Red boards with black inset. 000018920

The Modern Library, 1947. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Red cloth over boards, spine faded. Corners rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Page edges are age toned, a few corners turned. Lacking DJ

Modern Library NY/Random House, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. 12 mo., hardcover, near fine in VG blue and yellow pictorial dj (with modest edgewear). This collection includes twenty-five of the best stories of Bret harte, outstanding chronicler of the turbulent Western frontier. Here in short is a cross-section of American life during its most adventurous and picturesque era, described in some of the best short stories that any American has written. Includes his famous "The Luck of Roaring Camp". 517 pp.

NY: The Modern Library. NF. 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. Modern Library #250. Not a first Modern Library edition, this copy lis ts 376 titles on the jacket's verso. A near fine copy bound in red clo th housed in a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket. Rubs to the book' s spine tips and corners. The dust jacket is rubbed at its corners and frayed along the head and base of its spine. The jacket's spine is fa ded. Dust soiling to the jacket's panels. Edited with an Introductio n by Robert N. Linscott. .

New York: Modern Library, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint; red cloth with black title blocks, 12mo, 517 pages, Toledano binding style 8, Kent endpapers, 344 titles inside dust jacket; name at top of front endpaper, dust jacket has light edge wear and faint crease from head to tail of spine.

New York: The Modern Library Book. Good. Hardcover. (1947), small 8vo, x, 517pp. Light wear, previous owner's three line birthday note on half title page, else VG in G lightly chipped dust jacket with upper corner of front panel, smudged. From the DJ: "This collection includes 25 of the best stories of Bret Harte, outstanding chronicler of the turbulent Western frontier.".

New York: Modern Library, 1947. Nice copy. Tight and square. Ink address on front endpaper. No other markings. Price intact jacket is sunned to red portion of spine. Minor edgewear. In mylar. . Early Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Modern Library, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

First Modern Library Edition, 1947. Pages are clean and unmarked, but a bit age-tanned. Cloth boards are in good shape; spine slightly faded. Gold lettering in black inlay on the spine, still in good shape. No dust jacket.

Random House Inc (T), 1947-06. Hardcover. Good.

New York: The Modern Library, 1947. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x1. 1947 first thus, Toledano 250.1, binding/jacket style 8h with 322 titles on verso, $1.10 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Very good in good jacket. Ink gift note on front free endpaper, two 1 inch jacket chips. x, 517 pp. A collection of western short stories by Bret Harte, edited with an introduction by Robert N. Linscott. Includes: Introduction; The Luck of Roaring Camp; The Outcasts of Poker Flat; Tennessee's Partner; Brown of Calaveras; The Iliad of Sandy Bar; The Poet of Sierra Flat; How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar; A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst; An Heiress of Red Dog; An Ingenue of the Sierras; Chu Chu; The Devotion of Enriquez; A Yellow Dog; Salomy Jane's Kiss; Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy; Dick Spindler's Family Christmas; An Esmeralda of Rocky Canon [Canyon]; The Boom in the 'Calaveras Clarion'; The Youngest Miss Piper; Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff;… Read More

Modern Library, 1947. Early printing. Inked in name, near fine.. Red cloth, lacking dust jacket.

The Modern Library, 1947. Hardcover. Fine. Duodecimo. Price clipped, else a near fine jacket. Red cloth with torchbearer in black square and Rockwell Kent endpapers. A nice oldie.

New York: Modern Library, 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. ML 250.1. Red linen boards with gold titles in black box. Book is fine. Dust jacket has price $1.65 on flap. Inside of jacket shows 379 titles through 1957. Bright colorful jacket has a couple of tiny corner chips.

Modern Library. hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1x6x9.

New York: Random House, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First thus. Very good or better in an about Very good dustwrapper. Minor bumps and rubs to boards/ bumps, rubs and minor chips to edges and corners of dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Modern Library, 1947. Modern Library. Hardcover. very good; rubbed line on front board; all else-clean, tight, & attractive/very good; light chipping to dj edges; protected by new Mylar wrap; all else-clean & attractive.. 12 mo; bright blue boards with stamped Modern Library logo; 517 pp; edited and introduction by Robert N. Linscott; illust. dj; #250 in Modern Library series.

New York: The Modern Library. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. [c.1951]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition offering 25 of the best stories of Bret Harte (1836-1902). Mr. Harte was best known for his depictions of the wild frontier life during the California gold rush. Edited and with an introduction by Robert N. Linscott. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h / verso advertises 352 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1951 (though 1947 date appears in book). ML #250.1. --- With a little dulling to cover gilding and cloth, otherwise a clean, firm copy. Dust jacket bears original $1.25 flap price; with sunned (but readable) spine, chips and creases to edges but still bright and protected in removable mylar.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); x, 517 pages .