Bret Harte

Finely bound first edition, first printing of Harte's Poems.

• Bret Harte (American).
• Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. 
• 152 pages.
• Octavo.
• First issue, with the publisher's monogram on title page and foot of spine, and the error "S.T.K." for "T.S.K." in the caption on page 136.
• Stiff card mounted to first blank signed by Bret Harte.
• Bound in full crushed black morocco, covers bordered in single gilt rule surrounding gilt scrollwork with floral bouquet cornerpieces, central inlay of two fanned Jack-of-Hearts playing cards bordered in gilt, spine tooled in gilt in 6 compartments, two red morocco labels with gilt titling, marbled endpapers, and with original cloth covers and spine bound in at end.