About this title: 'One of the most beautiful, deep-seeking books on America that we have ...An exploration, salty, tingling, astonishingly well-informed, of the frontier backgrounds that fed and explain Mark Twain' - "New York Times". 'More widely and deeply than anyone else who ever wrote books, Mark Twain shared the life of America. Printer, pilot, soldier, ...
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Edition: First edition. First Bison Books Printing, 1997.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bison Books, Lincoln, Nebraska
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780803266070ISBN:0803266073
Description: Gallagher, M J. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Near-new with possible tiny black remainder mark on bottom edge of text block. Otherewise, clean and bright with no evidence of use. Tight binding. Frontis., xxii, 351 p., illus., bibliog., appendices, notes, index. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chautauqua Institution
Date Published: c1932
Description: Good+ with no dust jacket. 1933 printing, blue cloth hardcover, illustrated b/w by M. J. Gallagher, indexed, 353 plus several pages of advertisements, spine cloth sunned to grey, contents clean and tight, a solid copy. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good. Size: 8vo; Light wear to covers. Text clean and unmarked. The binding is tight and square. Address label attached to endpapers. read more
Binding: TRADE PAPERBACK
Publisher: University of Idaho Press, Moscow, Idaho
ISBN-13:9780893011086ISBN:0893011088
Description: VERY GOOD PLUS TRADE PAPERBACK. DeVoto's book began with the criticism that much writing about Twain had been undertaken with inadequate information; as a result Devoto's scholarship is exhaustive and generally regarded as being nearly impeccable. Minor thumbing to corners. Nice, clean, readable copy. Good heft! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston
Date Published: c. 1932
Description: Illustrated by M. J. Gallagher. Good+ with no dust jacket; The book's spine is so faded, it is gray. The sparkle is all gone from the gold on the spine, but the lettering is eminently legible. The letering on the front cover is still bright. Otherwise minor wear and soil on the sound binding. There is minor age-browning of the outer margins, but the contents are clean and unmarked. Blue cloth, gold lettering. Bibliography. Index. BIOGRAPHY. This is not a complete biography of Samual Clemens' ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Date Published: 1932
Description: Very Good in No jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Criticism, commentary and updated information formulating a more perfect memory of an American favorite author. Blue cloth, uncut edges, 353 pages The book is in very good condition with some fading to the cover, sound text block, good hinges, pleasantly age-toned, with a name marked out in black marker on the front pastedown, but otherwise clean pages with no names or other markings. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1932.
Description: Second Printing. 8vo., 353pp., blue cloth. Illustrated by M. J. Gallagher. Boards discolored, in moderately edgeworn, lightly chipped jacket with tanned spine and 1.5" closed tear in mylar. Enclosed: Feb. 3, 1937 clipping of The New Republic "Compla ints: II. Bernard DeVoto" and APHA Newsletter No.144, Summer 2001 "American Authors as Printers, Part 2" (All three of John Clemens' sons became printers. ) read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Edition and printing not Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good in Good jacket. Edition and printing not Stated. Good in fair to good-dust jacket. Book: slight wear at top & bottom of spine & corners. Jacket: 2 two inch tears & with small chips on bottom of front panel, chip at top of front flap hinge, chip-at top of front spine hinge, light chipping at top & bottom of spine, light wear along edges, price-clipped. 15 x 22cm. hard cover. 351pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1960
Description: M. J. Gallagher. Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library Mylar covered jacket taped to boards, first page cut, 2 marks and 1 slight erasure in text of book and 4 check marks on contents page, black marker on head of book, rest of pages clean, several articles laid in and one glued to front endpaper, binding firm. read more
Description: Illust'd by M. J. Gallagher. Very good in VG dust jacket. Internal hinge is separating. This edition out-of-print. 351 pages. Index. Bibliography. A combination of literary criticism, biography, & history, this book "is a lively & sympathetic picture of the man [Twain] & of the turbulent frontier that he personified. " Buy with confidence from an established bookseller with an open bookstore and in business since 1984. read more
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