Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press (1987-1997). 1st ed.
Date published: 1987
Description:As New. Dust Jacket Included. All 5 Volumes are first printings...As New. Dust Jacket Included. All 5 Volumes are first printings, aside from Volume 1 which is the second printing. Thick 8vos. All bound in textured grey cloth. Volume 1. Edgar Marquess Branch, Michael B. Frank, Kenneth M Sanderson, eds. xlvi, 616 pp. Illustrated. Volume 2. Harriet Elinor Smith, Richard Bucci, eds. xxvii, 672 pp. Illustrated. Volume 3. Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, eds. xxxi, 745 pp. Illustrated. Volume 4. Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, eds. xxxiii, 792 pp. Illustrated. Volume 5. Lin Salamo, Harriet Elinor Smith, eds. xxxv, 939 pp. Illustrated. All five volumes are tight, fine books in bright, fine DJs. Extra postage required.
Publisher: Aldus Printers and Ferris Printing, New York, NY
Date published: 1949
Description:Quarto (4to). Signed [xi] 275 pages of text. Measures 30.8cm ...Quarto (4to). Signed [xi] 275 pages of text. Measures 30.8cm (height). Hardcover: 1/2 blue cloth; gold paper covered boards; blind stamped blue decoration; #1161 of 1500; signed by Guilbeau; author's full name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens; slip-case damaged; prospectus laid in; owner marks. American novel; fine printing; Limited Editions Club.
Description:Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock. Very Good with no dust jacket. ...Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock. Very Good with no dust jacket. Uncut; Light soiling and wear to boards; Light wear to head and heel of spine; Former owner's book plate front pastedown; BAL3471; Red boards gilt titles; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 179 pages.
Description:Very Good. Hardcover in original boards with Howard Pyle...Very Good. Hardcover in original boards with Howard Pyle illustration on front. 8vo. First edition, second state. Plain pastedown pages and endpapers, upside down illustration on page 18, code D-T on colophon page with a printing date of May 1919. Book is crisp, clean, and unmarred. No dust jacket. Spine starting. Bookplate of former owner on front pastedown, with offsetting to opposite page. Four perfect-condition tipped-in color illustrations by Howard Pyle depicting a lithe, young, slender Joan. Minimal wear to edges of boards. Top edge gilt, side and bottom edges deckled. Decorations in pale green tint by Wilfred J. Jones on every page. A nice copy. 32 pp.
Publisher: James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, MA
Date published: 1883
Description:Very Good. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Newly rebound in...Very Good. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Newly rebound in brown cloth, with new endpapers, new head-and tail-bands, with original brown publisher's front cover and spine panel cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and black, remounted over top, restoring a rather worn copy that would have otherwise been retired to virtually "as new" condition. Both panels of original cloth are nicely intact, showing only minor surface rubbing. Moderate binding lean. Text block fore-edges somewhat dulled by age. 624 pp., illus. Lacks original front flyleaf (supplied with replacement), opening onto verso of frontis., which shows mildly chipped edges. First edition, later state, no tail-piece/illustration on p. 441, p. 443 caption corrected from "St. Louis Hotel" to "St. Charles Hotel." Interior very slightly toned, otherwiser fully intact. While no longer original, this conservatively preserved copy will withstand years of continued use.
Publisher: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, Cambridge
Date published: 1960
Description:Very Good in Very Good jacket. Set. 6½" by 9½" Two volume set ...Very Good in Very Good jacket. Set. 6½" by 9½" Two volume set (complete), full charcoal cloth, titling in whit & gold. Light general wear, jackets show a little edgewear with a few short tears on volume two, with associated chipping and creasing, interior of spine ends reinforced with non-archival but unyellowing tape. Gift note in pencil on the endsheet of volume 1: "Walter & Jean [Rideout] | from | Barbara & Bill [Gibson? ] | Dec. 1981"; a few marginal marks in pencil. Xxv, 454; [6] 455-948 pages, indexes, biographical briefs on persons mentioned, calendar of letters, appendix of 8 undated letters. 672 letters with contextual, biographical and historical commentary. Walter Rideout was a University of Wisconsin professor and Sherwood Anderson scholar; Gibson was his colleague at the UW until his retirement in 1981.
Description:Very Good Minus. No Jacket. 8vo-7-3/4" x 5-1/4" Red cloth, gilt...Very Good Minus. No Jacket. 8vo-7-3/4" x 5-1/4" Red cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, gilt-stamped corn ears & TM medallion on front & blind-stamped on back, frontis., [iv], [1-3] 4-362pp, plus three inserted photo plates, with original tissue guard over the frontispiece. Five of the six usually cited FIRST STATE points of issue present: frontis. facsimile autograph & 1906, 17 titles, eight lines of type, standard W, autobiograyhy, fa'm-houses with broken r (not flawed in 1st state). Ref: BAL 3497, Johnson 87-89. Please inquire for elaboration. Attractive, bright cloth & gilding, square tight binding, spine slightly faded, ends and corners lightly bumped with no apparent rubbing, & sharp corner tips, barely noticeable narrow line of lightened pigment on front, back cover has a few light water spill spots below the medallion and to the bottom edge (the largest approx. the size of a 1/2 dollar coin), text edges moderately faded with scattered tiny spotting, prev. owner's name & date "Aug. 1907" penned on front pastedown, text is uniformly clean and bright white. A criticism of Mary Baker Eddy and the Christian Science belief system she founded--in the classical acerbic humor unique to Mr. Twain. A remarkable, controversial work; then and today.
Edition: 1st ed.; but with the 1874 date on the title page; many points
Binding: publisher's black gilt cloth.
Publisher: Ameican Publishing Company, Hartford
Date published: 1874
Description:Tight and sound, with a little rubbing at extremities; gold...Tight and sound, with a little rubbing at extremities; gold decoration on spine a little dulled. 574 [2] [4, ads] pp. Fully Illustrated from New Designs. This copy lacks the folding plate between pp. 246-247. 8vo, BAL 3357; corrected states of pp. 351 and 353.
Description:The line below "American Publishing Company" and above the date,...The line below "American Publishing Company" and above the date, 1873, has been neatly and inexplicably excised from the title page (it read "F. G. Gilman & Co., Chicago, Ill."); old clipping about Charles Dudly Warner tipped in after the title page,... 574 [2] pp. Fully Illustrated from New Designs, including the folding plate. 8vo, BAL 3357: first state of the title page, p. 246, and p. 280; later state of p; xvi, pp. 351 and 353, and p. 403.
Publisher: American Publishing Company and Watson Gill, Hartford, Conn. and Syracuse, New York
Date published: 1874
Description:First edition. "Sold by subscription only on title page". 213...First edition. "Sold by subscription only on title page". 213 illustrations with some full page plates. Mixed issue of the 9 major points. Point 1: Ads at back with "Everybody's Friend" undescribed-state A; Point 2: Artist White listed on title page-state A; Point 3: page vii-"Eschol" Sellers under Chapter 5-state A; Point 4: page xvi-final illustrations numbered 212-state B; Point 5: Page 246-no comma follows "Hallelujah" on line 5 from bottom-state A; Point 6: no period after "Dr. Jackson" line 18-state B; Point 7: on page 351 last line is not "would kill me..."-state B; Point 8: Page 353 lines 1 & 2 "She looked down into his face..." is absent-state B; Point 9: page 403 has an illustration with date of 1873 on copyright page and 1874 on title page-state B. xvi + 17-574 pages + 2 page appendix + 2 pages of ads at back plus frontispiece. 8vo 9" tall. Black cloth-missing front board and cloth of spine. Back board is deeply blindstamped black cloth. Folding map of Salt Kick Branch of the Pacific Railroad missing. Nice clean text. Should be rebound to make a nice copy.
Description:Fine. 2 Volumes. UNCORRECTED PROOFS. Fine in bound signatures,...Fine. 2 Volumes. UNCORRECTED PROOFS. Fine in bound signatures, laid-into white printed wrappers.
Description:Fine. Fine in original wrappers with a nick at the foot of the...Fine. Fine in original wrappers with a nick at the foot of the spine. An advance excerpt from Twain's novel.
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
Date published: 2010
Description:Second Printing. Clean, crisp copy. Brand new and in mylar cover...Second Printing. Clean, crisp copy. Brand new and in mylar cover. Fine / Fine.
Description:Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Gilt lettering on...Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Gilt lettering on spine. Floral borders and fancy lettering on orange cloth of front cover. Embossed ornament on back cover. The spine is slightly sunfaded and there are some signs of extremely slight rubbing. A very attractive book. Very scarce.
Description:F. Strothmann. Very Good. No Dustjacket. 8vo. LAcks rare dust...F. Strothmann. Very Good. No Dustjacket. 8vo. LAcks rare dust jacket. It is a true 1st edition-on Copyright page "April 1904." Previous owner's bookplate on inside, and owner's signature in ink dated 22 December 1904. Minor edgewear at top and bottom of the spine-white lettering with multi colored drawing of a man carving on a stone tablet with two monkeys watching. Illustrated-black and white frontis with full page black and white stone tablet. Red boards and spine.
Description:Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Minor wear to...Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Minor wear to boards. All three volumes are tight and clean.
Description:Very Good with no dust jacket. Slightly cocked, some darkening...Very Good with no dust jacket. Slightly cocked, some darkening to covers else Very Good. The First Edition.
Description:Very Good. Dark green cloth binding. very lightly rubbed cover...Very Good. Dark green cloth binding. very lightly rubbed cover and spine edges.
Publisher: Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, New York
Date published: 1892
Description:Beard, Dan. Very Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Very good...Beard, Dan. Very Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Very good hardcover copy of "The American Claimant" by Mark Twain. 1st edition / 1st printing originally priced at $1.75. Green cloth boards stamped in black and gilt on both front cover and spine. Ink spot on front cover at bottom left of design partially covering the crown in front of the lion slightly larger than the size of a quarter. Two more, smaller, ink spots on back cover. Cover is somewhat worn around the extremities: spine ends, edges, corners. Both hinges beginning. Still a very good copy. Inside clean. Spine otherwise sound. Enjoy this affordable, decent looking, 1st edition of America's most famous writer!
Description:First edition. Very good with some paint spray to bottom page...First edition. Very good with some paint spray to bottom page edges (not too obtrusive), darkening to endpapers, minor soiling and light scattered foxing. Advertisement for six Penquin Series books laid in (appears to be the rear dust jacket flap).
Description:First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900. 1st...First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900. 1st edition. 398 pp. 8vo. Red cloth. Book Condition: Good. Boards spotty and rubbed at extremities; backstrip faded; slightly rolled; name in ink on half-title. Literature.
Description:Very Good- Hardcover in Very Good-condition with no DJ. Bound...Very Good- Hardcover in Very Good-condition with no DJ. Bound in red cloth with black detail and gilt lettering on spine. Covers are slightly soiled, spine is very fragile, with some fraying, sunning, some chips and a tear all the way through the binding. Edges of boards have several bumps. Pages are foxed, and, although the webbing is beginning to show in some places, text is holding in place surprisingly well. Book is complete with one black and white photograph of Twain on frontispiece with tissue guard and six illustrations.
Description:First Edition. Elizabeth Shippen Green frontispiece. Collection...First Edition. Elizabeth Shippen Green frontispiece. Collection of short stories concerning mediaeval romances. Near Fine but for few inches of cloth discoloration at lower front panel, in Very Good dustjacket, few short closed tears and scotch tape mends to exterior, some minor inking at mid-front panel and inked number "37" at spine.
Description:Early Edition. Original green pictorial decorative cloth with...Early Edition. Original green pictorial decorative cloth with all the illustrations. An excellent and inexpensive example of the book in the same format and design as the first edition. A little bit of fraying at top of spine, else near fine bright copy.
