Colonel Starbottle's Client, and Some Other People by Bret Harte - 2012-01-10

New York: The Metropolitan Magazine Company, 1892. Edition Not Specified. Very Good/No DJ. 16mo = 6-7". n/a. Printing Not Spec. Blue coated boards with gold stamp. Edges and endpapers show some foxing. Pages are brown but clean, copy is tight. Some bumping to spine and corners; spine is slighly pushed forward.

New York: Regent Press, 1892. G+/none; 283 pages; Good+ in decorative brown cloth boards, bookplate on front pastedown, front hinge split but spine still straight and sound, pages aged, frontispiece loose, edges and corners of boards rubbed.. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Metropolitan Magazine Company. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Light edgewear. Light wear. Lightly bumped corners. Light soiling. There is inked scribbling on inside front cover, front endpage & table of contents page. It looks like when someone was scribbling on front endpage, they pushed the pen down several times, leaving several tiny pinkprick size holes through front endpage, some through title page & denting table of contents page. Inside hinge is lightly cracked. Owner info stamped on front endpage. Good reading copy. One of a matching set.

New York: The Metropolitan Magazine Company, 1892. This antique hardcover book is bound in blue cloth with bright gilt spine lettering. Book is in good condition with tanned pages, rubbing, darkened spine, wear and soil. Includes nine short stories or sketches. 283 pages; approx. 5"x7".. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by None.

London: Chatto & Windus, 9999. No date, but gift inscription dated 1925 'To "Lancelot Blunden" in memory of 2/5/1925, with Hubert at Plymouth' The poet Edmund Blunden had a brother called Lancelot, but since the name is in inverted commas, I have no idea whether there is any connection. Green cloth, 307 pages, b/w frontis by Fred Barnard. Endpapers brown, cloth partly faded and damaged at ends of spine, a few pages stained. Reading copy. This is NOT a signed copy.. Reprint. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Fred Barnard.

Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1892). First American Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. White endpapers. Cover has very minor rubbing at corners. Binding sound and straight. Neat bookplate on front pastedown. No marks in text. Light tanning to top edge of text block and a little darkening of spine. BAL 7362 ; B&W frontis; 7" x 4 5/8"; <i-iv>, <1-283> pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good Spine faded, panels and spine rubbed with light soiling, spine ends and panel corners bumped, hint of light browning on page edges. 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.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. 1892. First US Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 170mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). 283pp. b&w frontis. .

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Decorative green cloth with black stamping on front board, gilt-stamped spine title. Spine cocked, edgewear, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper.

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