SALLY DOWS AND OTHER STORIES

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

"SALLY DOWS AND OTHER STORIES"

Entry/Object ID

2004.159.1.2

Description

Color: Black; Red "Sally Dows and Other Stories," by Bret Harte (Boston and New York and Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company and The Riverside Press,) 1893. The 299-page hardcover book has a red cloth cover with black lettering on the front, consisting of the title and author's name, and gold lettering on the spine, comprising the title, author's name, and publisher's name. The title story is novelette length and there are three other short stories in the collection. With rubbing on the spine ends and cover corners; some fairly heavy cover soiling; slight yellowing of pages; fading of the cover and spine lettering; foxing on several pages; moisture damage throughout; pest damage on the right side of page 143 and along the right edge of the front cover; and stains to the covers, flysheets and some handling stains on pages, the general condition is good.

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Three-dimensional, Books, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press, The, Literature, American

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Books