The Writings of Bret Harte: A Nineteen Volume Set

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Hardcover. Very Good-. Author's Autograph Copy N0. 295." SIGNED by Harte in vol. 1 and dated Septem. 1896. This set includes all volumes published until 1903 but lacks vol. 20, published in 1914. A vg- set, overall; the spines are faded to brown, the title pieces darkened w/ several chipped (vol. 1 and 15-20), spine ends bumped and worn (few tiny tears to ends and chips to cloth). Hinges repaired in vol. 1, which also has a thin waterstain at the bottom corner of the ffep only. Pages 297-312 creased along side edge. Text in all vols. free of marks. This wonderful set includes illustrations by many of the finest artists of the time, and many have SIGNED various plates: James Montgomery Flagg, E. Boyd Smith (3x), Guy Rose, B. West Clinedinst, Mary Hallock Foote (2x), Alice Barber Stephens (2x), W.L. Taylor, Fredric Remington, Otto H. Bacher, M.J. Burns, Malcolm Fraser (2x), T. de Thulstrup, Frederick Dielman, Orson Lowell (2x), Frank T. Merrill, Eric Pape, Ethel I. Brown, Arthur I. Keller (2x), Frederick McCormick, Thomas Fogarty, and Seymour Stone. There is at least one signed plate in each volume; most have more. Shipping this large set will require extra shipping charges.