Cressy
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889.
Price: $30.00
Hardcover. First edition. Decorative brown cloth with black stamping on front board, gilt-stamped spine title. Gutter starting to crack, spine ends chipped, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper.
Item #400291
Bret Harte
birth name: Francis Brett Harte
born: 8/25/1836
died: 5/5/1902
Biography
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