Colonel Starbottle's Client and Some Other People

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892.

Price: $35.00

Hardcover. First edition. Decorative red cloth with black stamping on front board, gilt-stamped spine title. Ex-library bookplate on front pastedown, hinge cracked causing spine lean, small abrasion mid-spine with tears on ends, else an about very good copy lacking the dustwrapper.

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Item #400277 Colonel Starbottle's Client and Some Other People. Bret HARTE.

Bret Harte
birth name: Francis Brett Harte
born: 8/25/1836
died: 5/5/1902

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American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Born in Albany, New York, he moved to California in 1854, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist.more