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(francis) Bret Harte

Male : Story writer & journalist. Buried at St Peter's, Frimley, Surrey
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Albany, New York

Date of Birth : 1836 Date of Death : 1902 Age : 66

Other Work : Secretary of the US Mint in San Francisco 1864-70. American Consul in Glasgow 1880-5
1866-1870
(Ed) Outcroppings : Being Selections of California Verse (1866 A Roman, SF / Widdleton, NY)
The Lost Galleon & Other Tales
(1867 Towne & Bacon, SF)
The Luck of Roaring Camp & Other Sketches
(1870 Fields, Osgood) (1870. 2nd Ed)
The Heathen Chinese, Plain Language from Truthful James
(1870 Western News Co, Chicago) - set of 9 cards
(1873 John Camden Hotten)

1871-1875
East and West Poems
(1871 Osgood, Boston)
Poems
(1871 Fields, James R Osgood)
The Pliocene Skull
(1871 No Publisher, Washington)
Lothaw or The Adventures of a Young Gentleman in Search of a Religion
(1871 Hotten, London)
Condensed Novels
(1871 Osgood, Boston) - S Eytinge Jnr
Mrs Skagg's Husbands & Other Sketches
(1873 Boston)
Tales of the Argonauts, and Other Sketches
(1875 Osgood, Boston)
Echoes of the Foothills
(1875 James R Osgood, Boston)

1876-1880
Gabriel Conroy
(1876 American Publ Co, Hartford)
Two men of Sandy Bar
(1876 Osgood)
Excelsior
(nd. c1877 printed for Morgan's Sons by Donaldson)
Drift from Two Shores
(1878 Houghton, Osgood, Boston)
The Story of a Mine
(1878 Osgood)
The Twins of Table Mountain
(1879 Houghton, Osgood)
Jeff Briggs's Love Story & Other Sketches
(1880 Chatto & Windus)
The Complete Works
(1880-1 Chatto & Windus) - 5 vols

1881-1885
Flip and Found at Blazing Star
(1882 Houghton Mifflin)
Flip & Other Stories
(1882 Chatto & Windus)
In the Carquinez Woods & Other Stories
(1883 Longmans Green) - prec US edition
On the Frontier
(1884 Houghton Mifflin)
By Shore and Sedge
(1885 Longmans Green) (1885 Tauchnitz)
Maruja
(1885 Houghton Mifflin)

1886-1890
The Queen of the Pirate Isle
(1886 Chatto & Windus) - Kate Greenaway
A Millionaire of Rough & Ready
(1887 Houghton Mifflin)
A Phyllis of the Sierras and a Drift from Redwood Camp
(1888 HM)
The Argonauts of North Liberty
(1888 Houghton Mifflin)
Cressy
(1889 Macmillan)
The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh & Other Tales
(1889 Macmillan) - 2 vols
A Ward of the Golden Gate
(1890 HM) (1890 C & W - Stanley L Wood )
The Complete Works
(1890-1896 C & W) - 9 vols
A Waif of the Plains
(1890 Chatto & Windus) - prec US edition. Stanley L Wood

1891-1900
A Sappho of Green Springs & Other Tales
(1891 Chatto & Windus)
Colonel Starbottle's Client : And Some Other People
(1892 Chatto & Windus)
Sally Dows & Other Stories
(1893 Houghton Mifflin)
Susy
(1893 Chatto & Windus)
The Bell Ringer of Angel's & Other Stories
(1894 Houghton Mifflin) (1894 C & W)
Clarence
(1895 HM) (1895 Chatto & Windus)
In a Hollow of the Hills
(1895 Houghton Mifflin)
Three Partners, or The Big Strike on Heavy Tree Hill
(1897 Chatto & Windus) (1897 Houghton Mifflin)
Stories in Light and Shadow
(1898 C Arthur Pearson, London) (1898 Houghton Mifflin)
Mr Jack Hamlin's Mediation & Other Stories
(1899 Pearson)

After 1901
Under the Redwoods
(1901 C Arthur Pearson)
Openings in the Old Trail
(1902 Houghton Mifflin)
Condensed Novels : New Burlesques
(1902 Chatto & Windus)
Trent's Trust & Other Stories
(1903 Boston)
Her Letter : His Answer and Her Last letter
(1905 Houghton Mifflin) - Arthur I Keller
Tennessee's Partner
(1907 Paul Elder, SF & NY) - 1000
The Lectures of Bret Harte
(1909 C M Kozlay, NY) - 100
Salomy Jane
(1910 Houghton Mifflin)
Novels and Stories
(c1910 NY) - 12 vols
The Letters
(1926 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Wild West Stories
(1930 Harrison of Paris) - 840. Pochoir illus by Pierre Falke
The Right Eye of the Commander : A New Year's Legend of Spanish California
(1937 Wilder & Ellen Bentley, Berkeley) - 350. Hans Bentley
Representative Selections
(1941)
Tales of the Gold Rush
(1944 LEC, NY) - 1200. Fletcher Martin
The Luck of the Roaring Camp
(1948 Ransohoffs, SF) - 300. Mallette Dean
San Francisco in 1886
(1951 Book Club of California, SF) - 400 printed by the Grabhorn Press
The Lost Galleon
(1953 Grabhorn Press, SF) - 400
Bret Harte : Selected Stories and Sketches
(1995 OUP £5.99) - edited by David Wyatt

READING
T Edgar Pemberton : The Life of Bret Harte
(1903 C Arthur Pearson)

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