A PROTEGEE OF JACK HAMLIN'S
1894 · London
by Harte, Bret
London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. Deep blue pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt and ochre. Rear hinge cracking, extremities a bit shelf rubbed, slight offset to endsheets, otherwise a very good copy. First British edition, following the American edition by two months, but including a story which did not appear in book form in the U.S. until later in the year, in THE BELL-RINGER OF ANGEL'S. BAL 7369. SADLEIR 1155. (Inventory #: WRCLIT24941)