The Gilded Age, A Tale Of Today by Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner - 1873

American Publishing Company, 1874. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hartford, 1874; faded black cloth covered boards; heavy edge and corner wear with board exposed; back strip missing and replaced with tape; white tape with title on spine; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; hinges reinforced with cloth tape; Previous owner's name on free front end paper; tide mark at bottom corners; interior lightly foxed; Interior is clean and unmarked; 574 pages.

Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1873. First Edition . Hardcover. Poor/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 576pp + 4 pages - 2 leaves - of ads. Fully Illustrated From New Designs. Sold By Subscription Only. Original cloth with covers detached. First few pages detached with lower 2" of title page clipped so publisher's name not present. Spine gone. The rest of the book is good. Promoting global literacy for 35 years.

New York: Nelson Doubleday. Hardcover. The Gilded Age. A Tale of Today. No date. Slight wear to top and bottom edge of spine and corners of cloth. Small mark to edge. 497 pp. Hand cut pages. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Thus.

Hartford, Conn. : The American Publishing Company. "Fully illustrated from new designs"; 212 illustrations.Black cloth with gilt titles and decorations. 1898 on title page. Page edges darkened. Clean and unmarked. Solid binding. . Very Good+. Hardcover. Later. 1898.

CollectibleAcceptable. Date NOT specified. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing There is a lot of wear and tear on the cover Some corner dings. This is a hardcover copy The front hinge is split the webbing is showing but all pages are intact The back hinge is split the webbing is showing but all pages are intact The binding is split in the middle of the text but all pages are intact This is a ex library book, stickers and markings accordingly. Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1874. Twain's satirical first novel, written in collaboration with his friend Charles Warner (1829-1900), a book whose title and theme remain relevant today. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition, in a mixed state. Points that are either present or lacking include: list of illustrators on title page includes "White" with Lockwood electrotyper on verso but the date of publication is 1874; the name "Eschol Sellers" (changed in later editions) remains on p. vii; there is no "Halleluyah" on p.246; Dr. Jackson on p. 280 is accompanied by a period; and p. 403 has no illustration. The fold-out map at p. 246 is present. The binding is full leather with four bands and is a bit dry and flakey; the spine label (black with gilt lettering) is rubbed but still readable. The text is clean and bright; foxing is minimal; most of the pages, however, are browned at their edges. Withal, a decent copy of this wonderful and important book.… Read More

Hartford: American Publishing Co. VG book. Very early. "Eschol" & most other BAL 1st state points.. 1874 (1873cp). Early printing. Hardcover. VG book. 8vo, xvi,(17-574,(2)pp. Many in text illus & full page plates. Newly rebound in brown leather w orig spine labels. . According to BAL "AGE" just came on the market Christmas day, 1873. Firsts Magazine, vol 8 # 7/8 says it came on the market Dec 11, '73 and 12,000 copies sold that year. BAL & Firsts Magazine both state the very first printings had "Eschol" on pages vii, 27, 247 and 355,as does this copy. Eschol was quickly changed to Beriah. "Firsts" believes this corection nwas done in the 2nd printing. Very early copies also have the line repeats on pages 351, 2 & 3. This copy DOES NOT have these repeats. But it has all the other BAL 1st state points. BAL also says the genuine tp also includes "White" as one of the illustrators and "Wm H Lockwood" is on the verso, as does… Read More

Hartford Connecticut: American Publishing Company, 1880. Hardcover. Good. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1880 [1874]. Early printing of Twain's first novel and the only one written with a collaborator. "Fully illustrated from New Designs by Hoppin, Stephens, Williams, White etc". With the 9" x 6" w/ 8-fold map of The Salt Lick Branch of The Pacific R.R. at page 246-247. Front endpaper missing (laid in rear) else good-very good. Rear hinge cracked but sound. Light even wear at edges, minor cup stain on front board. A nice copy. Original cloth and gilt titling on board and spine are evenly dulled to a dignified sheen. The novel gave the era its nickname: "The Gilded Age". The term was adopted by literary and cultural critics as well as historians. The book satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America, and describes an age of materialism and excess.

Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company. Fine. 1874. Second Edition. Hardcover. A handsome, unrestored second edition, published in 1874. About Fine condition with only minute rubbing of board and edges; black cloth with peach endpapers, edges sprinkled brown; Twain's first novel which gave an entire era its name, though fictional, is a critical examination of politics and corruption in the United States during the nineteenth century; 8vo; xvi, 17-574 pages .