[Rarebooks] FS: THE LECTURES OF BRET HARTE, 1909, 1/100 copies in dustwrapper with first Twain appearance

[Charles Agvent]

HARTE, Bret. THE LECTURES OF BRET HARTE. Brooklyn: Charles Meeker 
Kozlay, 1909. First Edition. BAL 7407 & 3510. Contains the first 
appearance of Mark Twain's "Letter on John Camden Hotten" about the 
English pirate. Copy #87 of only 100 numbered copies of the Limited 
Edition bound in flexible suede with gilt lettering on the front cover. 
In a printed brown dustwrapper (not noted by BAL) which is moderately 
worn with a one-inch chip at the heel of the spine and a smaller chip 
slightly affecting the lettering at the top of the spine. Fine in a very 
scarce and Very Good dustwrapper. (#003661)     $1,500.00

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