[Rarebooks] FS: The first 6 issues of THE OVERLAND MONTHLY with a Letter from Bret Harte

[Charles Agvent]

HARTE, Bret (editor) CLEMENS, Samuel. THE OVERLAND MONTHLY. Volume I, 
#1-6 with AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) by Harte. San Francisco: A. 
Roman and Company, 1868. First Edition. The first six issues of this 
important California periodical in their original printed wraps, edited 
by Bret Harte. Contributions were published anonymously and include "By 
Rail Through France" and three others by Mark Twain, "San Francisco from 
the Sea," "The Luck of Roaring Camp," and two others by Bret Harte, 
"What the Railroad Will Bring Us" by Henry George, "Old Texan Days" by 
J. Ross Browne, "Restaurant Life in San Francisco" by Noah Brooks, and 
"In the Sierras" and five others by Charles W. Stoddard. Laid in loosely 
is an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Harte on the publication's stationery 
dated 30 September 1870 declining a review. In part: "THE LIFE OF 
AUDUBON has already been reviewed in the OVERLAND...." Letter and 
magazines housed in a custom-made cloth chemise and 1/2 brown morocco 
slipcase. The letter is badly faded and extremely difficult to read; the 
magazines have expected wear and some soiling but are intact and quite 
nice. Housed in a Fine slipcase. (#021065)        $1,250

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