LOT #58310 |
Sold on Jun 5, 2008 for: Sign-in
or Join (free & quick)
Six Mark Twain Related Works, including:... (Total: 6 Items)
Click the image to load the highest resolution version.
Description
Six Mark Twain Related Works, including: Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages about Men and Events. By Mark Twain. Edited and with an Introduction by Bernard DeVoto. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1940]. Third edition. Octavo. xxviii, 402 pages. Index. Publisher's brown cloth covers with the publisher's mark in blue on the front cover, and the spine ruled in gilt and lettered in gilt on a blue label area. Yellow dust jacket. Very light rubbing to the covers and jacket, some bumping to the head and foot of the spine and corners, some tiny closed tears to the jacket edges, price clipped, small bookseller's ticket affixed to the rear pastedown endpaper. Altogether a very good copy. [and:] The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings. The Best from Which Was the Dream? And Fables of Man. Edited by John S. Tuckey. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, [1980]. First edition. Octavo. xx, 385 pages. Publisher's red cloth covers with the spine lettered in silver. Illustrated dust jacket in black, red, and white, designed by Al Burkhardt. Very light bumping to the corners and head and foot of the spine, very light rubbing to the jacket, a few tiny closed tears to the jacket head. Altogether a very good copy. [and:] Mark Twain's Patent Self-Pasting Scrap Book. New York: Daniel Slote, 1877. Textured dark green cloth shelfback and corners over marbled boards. The rounded spine is blind-stamped. Patent title is affixed to the front pastedown endpaper. Rubbing to the covers, some chipping to the edges, small stamp on the front and rear pastedown endpaper, significant warping to the pages due to glue, many pages are stuck together and have no clippings pasted onto them, some tearing to the page edges. Altogether a good copy. Samuel Clemens came up with this idea, and was awarded the patent for the scrap book on June 24, 1873. BAL 3601 and BAL 3614. [and:] Mark Twain God's Fool. By Hamlin Hill. New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1973]. First edition, second printing. Octavo. xxviii, 308. Eighteen photographic plates. Notes. Index. Publisher's dark yellow cloth covers with the front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Dark yellow, tan, and brown illustrated dust jacket designed by Dorothy Schmiderer. Dark yellow coated endpapers. Negligible rubbing to the jacket, very few tiny closed tears to the jacket edges, price clipped. Altogether a very good copy. [and:] The Letters of Western Authors: No. 9 Mark Twain. With Comment by Charles Erskine Scott Wood. Published for its Members by the Book Club of California In September 1935. [San Francisco: John Henry Nash], 1935. One of five hundred copies. Octavo. 2 pages with a two page facsimile letter. Publisher's cream paper wrappers. Two page facsimile letter attached. Very light toning, some very minor wrinkling. Altogether a near fine copy. This facsimile letter is from the collection of James D. Hart, and is number nine in a series of twelve reproduced letters by prominent Western authors distributed to the member of the Book Club of California in the year 1935. [and:] Mark Twain Speaking. Edited by Paul Fatout. [Iowa City]: University of Iowa Press, [1978]. Second printing. Octavo. xxxi, 688 pages. Frontispiece portrait and illustrated title page. Index. Publisher's maroon cloth covers with the spine lettered in gilt. Gray endpapers with an illustration by Jean Karel, and maroon and black lettering. Bright red coated endpapers. Very minor rubbing to the jacket, a tiny puncture to the front jacket joint, some creasing at the joints of the jacket. Altogether a very good copy.Auction Info
2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
June, 2008
4th-5th
Wednesday-Thursday
Bids + Registered Phone Bidders: 1
Lot Tracking Activity: N/A
Page Views: 670
Buyer's Premium per Lot:
19.5% of the successful bid per lot.
Shipping, Taxes, Terms and Bidding
Terms and Conditions | Bidding Guidelines and Bid Increments | Glossary of Terms
Important information concerning Sales Tax and Resale Certificates. Learn More
Terms and Conditions | Bidding Guidelines and Bid Increments | Glossary of Terms