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A Double Barrelled Detective Story
by TWAIN, Mark
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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1902 Mark TWAIN 1st ed Double Barrelled Detective Sherlock Holmes RARE
"How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!"
― Mark Twain, The Double-Barrelled Detective
Mark Twain was one of the most popular and beloved American authors of the 19th-century. His works have become a mainstay in American literature, creating characters such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. By the end of 1800s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle created a famous detective character Sherlock Holmes, of whom Twain was quite fond. Twain developed his own parodic version of Holmes in his book 'A Double Barrelled Detective Story" which was first published in 1902. Twain puts Sherlock Holmes in the United States and creates a satirical world for him to discover.
Item number: #23071
Price: $499
TWAIN, Mark
A Double Barrelled Detective Story
New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First edition.
Details:
· Collation: complete
o [4], 179, [1]
o 7 plates by Lucius Hitchcock
· References: BAL 3471
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; secure
o Decorative red cloth
· Size: ~8in X 5.5in (20cm x 14cm)
· The BAL notes no priority on the various forms of this first edition with both A and B states with endpapers and on wove paper
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Details
- Bookseller
- Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23071
- Title
- A Double Barrelled Detective Story
- Author
- TWAIN, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York, London
- Date Published
- 1902
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1902 Mark TWAIN 1st ed Double Barrelled Detective Sherlock Holmes RARE, rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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