intro mark twain (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Bantam Books 1959.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good hardcover, no DJ. Covers show edge wear. Marking on end papers, pages are otherwise clean and unmarked, though tanned. Hinge cracked, binding loose but intact. Top edge is gilt.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. Cloth/dust jacket Quarto. green cloth, dust jacket, 25 pp, some fading to dj Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. NO SLIPCASE. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The two volume first printings of Mark Twain's autobiography, dictated by him during the last years of his life. The first edition, first printing of these works, with 'H-Y' and 'First Edition' to the colophon of each volume, and duplicate half titles to volume II. BAL state A.Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, retaining the original tissue guard. Collated, complete.The memoir contains a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations, rather than being a chronology detailed autobiography. This is as a result of Twain dictating the memoir, rather than writing it himself.With the inscription 'H. G. Haymaker Foreign Office' to each front free endpaper.With two pages of advertisements to the rear of volume II.Compiled and edited by Twain's personal friend and literary executor Albert Bigelow Paine, this is a smart first edition of the autobiography of this major literary figure. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to spine head and tail. Rubbing to joints, with fading to back strip, and mark to tail of volume I back strip. Rear hinge of volume I and front hinge of each volume strained, and slightly tender. Inscription to front free endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Spotting to title pages and frontispiece perimeters, with pages otherwise generally clean and bright. Very Good. book.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925. First Edition, with edition statement and H-Y code on copyright in both volumes. BAL variant A with ads at back of Vol II. Octavos; xvi, [1]-368pp; [viii], 365pp +2 ads. Frontispieces with printed tissue guards. Blue dust jackets with photo portrait vignette; books in navy blue cloth with blindstamped border and gilt lettering. Gilt top page edges. Vol I: Front jacket panel separated down joint with chipping along severed edges; tears down back joint fold as well with a few others across spine, lighter chipping at spine ends. Vol II: Light edgewear to jacket with a few small chips and tears and a small puncture at spine. Both volumes faded and waterspotted down spines, with fading along edges and some foxing along fore-edge. Boards of both volumes lightly shelfworn and nudged at spine ends, with some faint soiling to back of second volume. Front board of Vol. I opens a bit shakily, but binding is holding soundly in both. Endpapers toned down gutters. Bindings are sound and pages unmarked. Bookplate of collector Philip Greely Brown (1855-1934) on front pastedown of each volume. Brown was president of the First National Bank of Portland [Maine] as well as of the Board of Directors for the Portland Public Library. An October 1935 announcement of the sale of his library in the New York Times describes a collection heavily invested in American Fiction and Historical Americana (especially works pertaining to Maine), as well as travel, sport, and biographical / genealogical works. [BAL 3537 - A variant, with tentative priority].

Zustand: Near Fine. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First American Edition, wrapper issue. 12mo. 182 pp. Printed wraps. Touch of creasing and curling to corners. Binding sound. Faint spotting to endpapers, else unmarked; a remarkably well-preserved, Near Fine copy. Commonly known under the title, "English as She Is Spoke," Carolino's inaccurate and unidiomatic translations are now widely considered an inadvertent comic masterpiece. In his introduction, Twain remarks, "nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect, it must and will stand alone; its immortality is secure." Wrapper issue rather scarce and rare in this condition. [BAL 3412].

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Limited Edition of 1200 copies signed by Thomas Hart Benton at rear colophon, this being #670. Large octavo. 418 pp. Illustrations throughout by Benton, some color. Glassine wrapper. Gray-green morocco spine over illustrated boards featuring a lithographed scene by Benton. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Glassine wrapper chipped but intact. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase worn along edges; title label chipped and barely legible; soiling to edges and spotting to interior; remains structurally sound. Overall a Very Good copy; scarce with slipcase and wrapper.