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Five Mark Twain Works, including:... (Total: 5 Items)
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Five Mark Twain Works, including: Mark Twain's Sketches. Selected and Revised by the Author. Copyright Edition. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1872. Copyright edition. Reprint. Small twelvemo. 360 pages. One six page publisher's catalog and one ten page publisher's catalog at the rear. Publisher's tan cloth covers with the spine labeled in gilt on morocco. The spine has been rebound in black repair tape, the morocco label on the spine is torn, some rubbing and soiling to the covers, bumped corners, darkened top edge, previous owner's inscription on the front pastedown endpaper, hinges cracking but still attached. Altogether a good copy. This is a reprint except for the additional prefatory note by the author. [and:]One Hundred Choice Selections. No. 4 (Uniform with Nos. 1, 2 and 3.) Containing New and Standard Exercises for Declamation, Recitation, and General Reading In the Parlor, School Room, Library or Forum, and Especially Adapted to the use of Lyceums, Temperance Societies, Anniversaries, and Exhibitions. By Phineas Garrett. Chicago: P. Garrett & Co., 1872. Second edition. Twelvemo. 192 pages. Several advertisements included with the text pagination. Publisher's blind-stamped red pebbled cloth with the spine lettered and illustrated in gilt. Some rubbing to the covers, bumped corners and head and foot of the spine, toning to the endpapers, previous owner's inscription to the front and rear endpapers, some very light foxing to the initial pages. The included works by Samuel Clemens are: Mark Twain's First Interview with Artemus Ward, Mark Twain's Description of European Guides, and Mark Twain's "Great Beef Contract", each of which are credited to S. C. Clemens, rather than S. L. Clemens in the table of contents and at the conclusion of each work. [and: Mark Twain's Library of Humour. A New Edition with 197 Illustrations by E. W. Kemble. London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. 1897 reprint. Octavo. xvi, 119 pages. 32 page publisher's catalog dated May 1897 at the rear. Delightfully illustrated throughout the text. Publisher's dark blue cloth covers with the front cover delicately decorated in blind-stamp and lettered in gilt. The spine is lettered and decorated in gilt. Very light rubbing to the covers, lightly bumped corners and head and foot of the spine, slightly sunned spine, some foxing to the top edge, front hinge is beginning to crack but is still sound. Altogether a very good copy. This work was anonymously edited by William Dean Howells and was originally published in 1888 by Charles L. Webster & Company. Works by Mark Twain in clued: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Tomb of Adam, Abelaard and Heloise, A Genuine Mexican Plug, A Day's Work, Dick Baker's Cat, A Restless night, A Dose of Pain-Killer, European Diet, Experience of the McWilliamses with Membraneous Croup, Nevaded Nabobs in New York, The Siamese Twain, A Dog in Church, Blue-Jays, Our Italian Guide, Lost in the Snow, The Cayote, Colonel Sellers at Home, Cannibalism in the Cars, and How I Edited an Agricultural Paper. Warm Hair was mistakenly credited to Mark Twain. [and:] "1601" Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside in the time of the Tudors. By Mark Twain. An exact facsimile reproduction of the edition printed at West Point Military Academy in 1882. Preceded by a modified printing for easier reading. Paris: Brentano's, 1962. Reprint. Octavo. 10, xi. Publisher's green cloth covers with the front cover lettered in gilt. Title page is watermarked with Montgulfie. Uncut pages. Some rubbing and soiling to the covers, some discoloration to the spine, very light bumping to the corners, inscription on the front free endpaper. Altogether a very good copy. Samuel Clemens anonymously published this work until 1906, when he accepted authorship. The original publication date was 1880 by Alexander Gunn, and the first authorized copy printed in 1882 by Charles Erskine Scott Wood at the Wes Point Press in New York. [and:] Mark Twain's [Date, 1601.] Conversation As it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors. Embellished with an Illuminating Introduction, Facetious footnotes and a Bibliography by Franklin J. Mein. New York: Privately Printed for Lyle Stuart, [n.d.] Octavo. 80 pages. Frontispiece and an additional illustration. Notes. Bibliography. Publisher's red cloth covers with the front cover illustrated and lettered in gilt. The spine is lettered in gilt. Gray coated endpapers. Housed within a dark gray slip case with a large pink label on the front lettered in blue. Very minor sunning to the spine, negligible bowing to the front cover, previous owner's inscription on the front free endpaper. Some bumping to the corners of the slipcase, some sunning to the slipcase spine, light chipping and rubbing to the slipcase label. Altogether a very good, bright copy.Auction Info
2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
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