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The American Claimant.
Charles L. Webster and Co., New York, 1892. 8vo., half-title, frontispiece, illustrations in text, pp. 278 + 8 of adverts. Publisher's pictorial grey cloth. Head and tail of spine very slightly rubbed. Fine. FIRST EDITION. BMC No261, p90-93. More
Roughing It and the Innocents at Home.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882. FIRST COMBINED EDITION. Crown Octavo. pp. xvi, 495. With 200 illustrations by F. A. Fraser, including frontispiece. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and black pictorial stamping all over. Brown floral end-papers. All edges untrimmed. Blind W.H. Smith..... More
The American Claimant. With 81 Illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst.
Chatto and Windus, London, 1892, FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo., pp. 258 + 2 + 32-page catalogue. Light browning to endpapers. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, gilt titles. Binding a little rubbed and worn, spine leaning, some fraying to tips else a very good copy. BMC No261, p90-93. More
A Tramp Abroad.
Chatto and Windus, London, 1880, FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION- with scarce catalogue dated JUNE 1880. The first single volume edition, following the rare two volume edition by four months. First issue calls for sewn catalogue dated the month of publication which was August 1880. Other copies noted with later Sept..... More
A Tramp Abroad.
Chatto and Windus, London, 1880, FIRST UK ONE VOLUME EDITION, second issue with later catalogue (January 1881). The first single volume edition, following the rare two volume edition by four months. Octavo, pps. (xxiii) + 564. With 314 illustrations by W. Fr. Brown, True Williams, B. Day and other Artists..... More
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Hartford, CT: The American Publishing Co., 1876. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, Second printing, issue A (Jacob Blanck, 3369). Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.i-xvi; 17-274; [2]; [4, ads; [4], blank. Handsomely bound in twentieth century full mid-blue oasis morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, gilt decoration, all edges gilt..... More
The Writings of Mark Twain. The works include: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Celebrated Jumping Frog, Pudd'nhead Wilson, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The American Claimant, etc.
New York and London: Harper and Brothers / Hartford, Conn: The American Publishing Company, 1906. The Hillcrest Edition, complete in 25 volumes; Octavos (20 x 14cm). Elegantly hand-bound in half brown calf over marbled paper-covered sides, with contrasting orange title labels, gilt decoration to spines, top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More
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