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  First edition of Francis Bret Harte's The Luck of Roaring Camp

  HARTE, Francis Bret.

  The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches.

  Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1870.

  First edition, first issue of Harte's seminal California work without the story "Brown of Calaveras." BAL 7246. Octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Ownership name. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise slipcase.

  Price: $750.00     Item Number: 139515

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  Bret Harte and Mark Twain's Sketches of the Sixties: Being Forgotten Material Now Collected for the First time from The Californian 1864-67; from the collection of American journalist William Safire

  HARTE, Bret and Mark Twain. [Samuel L. Clemens].

  Sketches of the Sixties: Being Forgotten Material Now Collected for the First time from The Californian 1864-67.

  San Francisco: John Howell, 1927.

  Second edition of the compiled uncollected materials of Twain and Harte from The Californian. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raise gilt bands, pictorial endpapers, gilt topstain, frontispiece of page one of the first number of The Californian, illustrated. From the library of William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safire’s “magnum opus,” Safire’s Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. In very good condition.

  Price: $375.00     Item Number: 127607

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