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Eleven Mark Twain Related Works, including:... (Total: 11 Items)
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Eleven Mark Twain Related Works, including: Curtain Lecture Concerning Skating; Being an Unusual Example of Mark Twain's Early Journalistic Humor, Written Entirely in Dialogue, and Reprinted for the First Time in Book Form as it Originally Appeared in the New York Sunday Mercury of March 18, 1867. And, The Later, Unauthorized Revision, Mrs. Mark Twain's Shoe; Being a Facsimile Taken from the Pages of Beadle's The Dime Dialogues No. 10; For Homes, Schools and Exhibitions. New York: Beadle and Company, Publishers, 98 William Street First Published in April, 1871. By Mark Twain, (Samuel L. Clemens). Illustrated by Eminent Artists. Sold by Subscription Only. Edited by Donald M. Kunde. [Lakewood, Colorado]: Privately Published [by New Collectors Group], [1986]. Second English edition, copy "J" of twenty-six lettered copies that are signed by the editor and hard bound in cloth. Quarto. 40 pages. Several attractive illustrations throughout the text, including the frontispiece, and some pasted in. Notes. Publisher's maroon and black marbled cloth covers with the front cover lettered with an affixed paper label. Incredibly minimal rubbing to the covers. Altogether a near fine copy. Originally published in 1967, this second edition was "Limited to 500 numbered copies, in wrappers, and 26 lettered copies, hard-bound in cloth. This is Copy J" and is signed by the editor, Donald M. Kunde. [and:] Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography Produced by Milton Meltzer. New York: Bonanza Books, [1960]. Reprint. Quarto. xii, 303 pages. Over 600 contemporary photographs and drawings. Sources. Index. Publisher's light cream cloth shelfback over light brown boards. Spine lettered in dark brown. Illustrated dust jacket. Very minor bumping to the corners, some rubbing to the jacket, some tiny closed tears to the jacket edges, a very small piece missing from the head of the jacket, price clipped. Altogether a very good copy. [and:] Mark Twain and His World. Justin Kaplan. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1974]. First edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Beautifully illustrated throughout the text with both color and black and white illustrations, including the frontispiece. Sources. Index. Publisher's dark tan cloth covers with the front cover illustrated in brown and the spine lettered in brown. Fully illustrated dust jacket designed by Wendell Minor. Top edge stained brown. Yellow coated endpapers. Very tiny tears to the head of the jacket spine and top corners, a small white discoloration to the top corner to the front free endpaper. Altogether a very good copy. [and:] Clemens of the Call: Mark Twain in San Francisco. Edited by Edgar M. Branch. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. First edition. Octavo. xviii, 335 pages. Copiously illustrated throughout the text and with many inserted plates, including a frontispiece. Appendices. Notes. Index. Publisher's illustrated boards with the spine lettered in black on an orange label area. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Very minor bumping to the corners, light rubbing to the covers, very few tiny closed tears to the jacket edges, price clipped. Altogether a very good copy. [and:] Hardly a Man is Now Alive: The Autobiography of Dan Beard. Line drawings by the author. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939. First edition, ex-library copy. Octavo. xii, 361 pages. Several illustrations throughout the text and on inserted plates. Publisher's maroon cloth covers with the front cover blind-stamped. The spine is lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to the covers, significant sunning to the spine and top edged, library call number in white on the spine, lightly bowed covers, very minor bumping to the corners, small bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown endpaper, library stamp on the front free endpaper, some tearing to the back pastedown endpaper due to the removal of the library pocket, small notation on the rear pastedown endpaper. Altogether a good copy. Daniel Carter Beard illustrated several of Samuel Clemens' books. [and:] Our Mark Twain. Some Writings by Samuel L. Clemens. [Edited by William Dalton]. New York: The Image of America, [1960]. First edition. Octavo. 30 pages. Publisher's soft cream covers with a Mark Twain facsimile signature on the front cover. The spin is letter in gilt on a small blue label area. Blue endpapers. A few discolored spots on the covers. A very good copy. [and:] Papa: An Intimate Biography of Mark Twain. By Susy Clemens his daughter, thirteen. With a Foreword and Copious Comments by Her Father. Now Published in its Entirety for the First Time a Century Later. Edited with an Introduction by Charles Neider. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First printing. Octavo. xiv, 236 pages. Several illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's light blue cloth shelfback over gray boards. The spine is lettered in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Fred Marcellino. Very light rubbing to the jacket, very tiny closed tears to the foot of the jacket. Altogether a very good copy. [and:] Wapping Alice. Printed for the First Time, Together with Three Factual Letters to Olivia Clemens; Another Story, The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm; and Revelatory Portions of the Autobiographical Dictation of April 10, 1907, Comprising the Evidence in the Curious Affair of Lizzie Wills and Willie Taylor, by Samuel L. Clemens: Mark Twain. With an Introduction and Afterword by Hamlin Hill. Berkeley, University of California: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1981. Octavo. 79 pages. A few illustrations including the frontispiece. Publisher's light blue wrappers with the front cover and spine lettered in black. Some rubbing to the covers, slight creasing to the edges of the covers, some sunning to the spine and top edges. Altogether a very good copy. [and:] The Wit & Wisdom of Mark Twain. Edited by Alex Ayres. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1987]. Third printing. Octavo. xi, 265 pages. Publisher's dark brown cloth shelfback over tan boards with the spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket. Tan coated endpapers. Some rubbing to the jacket, very tiny closed tear to the front and bottom back of the jacket. Altogether a very good copy. [and:] Mark Twain's America. By Bernard DeVoto. Illustrated by M. J. Gallagher. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1932. First edition. Octavo. xvi, 353 pages. Appendices. Index. Publisher's blue cloth covers with the front cover and the spine lettered in gilt. Some rubbing and soiling to the covers, sunned spine and top edges, the gilt on the spine is significantly faded. Altogether a very good copy. BAL page 253. [and:] Mark Twain's San Francisco. Edited by Bernard Taper. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., [1963]. Second printing. Octavo. xxvi, 263 pages. Several illustrations throughout the text, including the frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth covers with the spine lettered in gilt. Gray dust jacket with two small illustrations and the lettering in red, blue, and black. Light blue coated endpapers. Very light bumping to the corners, small tear to the foot of the spine, minor rubbing and very slight discoloration to the jacket, some very small closed tears to the top edge of the jacket, small tear to the foot of the jacket, slightly discolored jacket spine, price clipped. Altogether a very good copy.Auction Info
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