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Old Times on the Mississippi. [together with]: A Literary Nightmare
by Twain, Mark
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Toronto: Belford Brothers, 1876. First edition, reprint B, BAL 3368: Publisher's device not present on title page, imprint date of 1876. Opposite title-page is advertisement for Tom Sawyer, P. 158: Blank, P. 159: Pausanias the Spartan, P. 160: New And Popular Books. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Toronto: Belford Brothers, 1876. 12mo., 5" x 7 1/4", 157pp. + 2 pp., publisher's ads. Purple/brown decorative cloth with black designs and black cover titles, gilt spine titles, brown endpapers. A few pages roughly opened, with chip off corner of p. 25, mild bump crease to corner of several sheets, trace of rub at the extremities,else near fine, clean, tight, attractive example. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006484
- Title
- Old Times on the Mississippi. [together with]: A Literary Nightmare
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Belford Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1876
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
The Wild Muse
Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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