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Salomy Jane Hardcover - 1910

by Bret Harte

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  • Hardcover
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Harrison Fisher and Arthur I. Keller. With date on title page, in the original blue gilt cloth with oval pastedown, gilt decorative borders, and tissue interleavings. The Western writer's most popular book given a splendid treatment with the plate illustrations of Fisher and Keller. A clean, bright, unmarked copy.
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  • Title Salomy Jane
  • Author Bret Harte
  • Illustrator Harrison Fisher and Arthur I. Keller
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin company, Boston
  • Date 1910
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BN027640

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