Bret Harte: Argonaut and Exile. Being an Account of the Life of the Celebrated American Humorist...
signed first edition
1931 · Boston and New York
by Stewart, George R., Jr.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931 First edition. xi, [3], 385 pp. 10 plates; notes and references, index. Tan cloth lettered in red. Bookplate to inner cover. A fine and clean copy. Scarce. The definitive biography of Harte, whose life was a continual paradox. Harte wrote of frontier ruffians, but wore a monocle; he signed himself "The Bohemian," but he was a hen-pecked husband; he was translated into every language, but could not make a living in America; and, he was ardently democratic, but hob-nobbed with dukes and duchesses. Stewart writes a masterful biography written largely from a study of then fresh material. With the bookplate of well-known collector Thomas Wayne Norris.. (Inventory #: 7593)