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Zustand: Very Good. First edition copy. . Limited edition, #3009. Case Very Good. (civil service, performance awards).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Dan Beard (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo ( 20 x 14 cm).[1-8], 260, [blank], [1]. 9. publisher's advertisements, pp. Faded tan cloth covers loose, still attached by rear free endpaper. Text block tight and unmarked. Tissue-guarded frontispiece by Dan Beard. BAL 3436.

Hardcover. Limited Edition, Number 836. 186 p. In slipcase. Copyright is held by the American Istitute for Public Service. The Jefferson Awards were founded in 1972 to honor the highest ideals and achievement in the field of public service and to develop new leadership. Co-chairs for American Institute for Public Service in Washington, D.C. are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Senator Robert Taft Jr. Includes essays with facsimile signatures by William F. Buckley Jr., Edward Kennedy, Margaret Mead, George Meany, Ernest Van Den Haag and more. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Dan Beard (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. (21 cm.) -260; blank leaf; advertisements pp. -9. Black and white frontispiece drawing by Dan Beard inserted with tissue guard. Tan cloth with black, brown and gilt letters on the front cover and gilt letters on the spine and with a vignette in gilt, brown and black of a wolf running to the right trailing a ribbon with the word "Starvation" on it set against a background of sun with shining rays. Cartouche in lower right corner of front cover of braided leaves with "Mark Twain" in the center. Very minor wear to extremities with nothing rubbed through, top and bottom of spine somewhat tender, spine slightly darkened, all gilt bright, some evidence of silverfish grazing on the covers, frontispiece in fine condition, tissue guard intact, fingernail sized stain on front free pastedown and endpaper, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. Blanck 3436 Other stories include the following: Mental Telegraphy, A Cure for the Blues, The Enemy Conquered, About All Kinds of Ships, Playing Courier, The GermanChicago, A Petition to the Queen of England, and A Majestic Literary Fossil. Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard (1850 - 1941) was an American illustrator, author, youth leader, and social reformer who also illustrated Twain's A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT.

Zustand: Very Good. London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. First UK Edition, later state with catalog dated October 1889. Octavo. 525, [ii], 32 pp. publisher's catalog. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's red cloth stamped in black and gilt; decorative endpapers. Boards edgeworn with a couple short tears to top of spine; corners bumped; spine soiled; light discoloration along fore-edges. Moderate lean to boards but binding is sound. Light foxing to endpapers and edges of text block but interior else unmarked. Very Good. [BAL 3429].