Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches. by Twain, Mark - 1878.

NY: Slote, Woodman and Co. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1878. Hardcover. Green cloth stamped in black. Ex-University library with green tape to spine, library bookplate, and two removed bookplates. Tape reinforced hinges. Second edition with Scrap Book ad to rear paste down, author's name in autograph form on title page. 140 pp plus 4 pages of ads. 16 lines of text p. 101. Points bumped/exposed. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

This is a collection of short stories, "Punch, Brothers, Punch!" and Other Sketches by MARK TWAIN. 1878 1st edition, 2nd state; Slote, Woodman & Co.; New York. With vignettes at the beginning and end of each story. There are 9 short stories in all. The book is smaller in size - it measures 6" tall x 4 1/2" wide. With an advertisement for "Mark Twain's Patent Scrap-Book" at the back."Punch, Brothers, Punch!" is about Twain's encounter with an "earworm" (a "virus-like" jingle), and how it occupies his mind for several days until he manages to "infect" another person, thus removing the jingle from his mind.Condition:Clean covers and spine with no stains; sharp corners; bright gilt lettering on the spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. A thin, light stain appears around page 95 at the upper and outer edges and gradually gets bigger through to the end of the book; there is also a stain at the upper-outer corner of the title page and contents page. Name/address written in pencil on front… Read More

New York: Slote, Woodman & Co, 1878. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Second state of Twain's collection of sketches. The original brick-red paper wrappers are bound in a sturdy early hardcover binding, and so remain remarkably bright and clean. Collated with Johnson's 'Bibliography of Mark Twain'. Twain's name on the title page is printed in facsimile autograph, three-line postscript on page 101. Wear and loss to the outer spine, crease to the inner back paper cover. 4.75 x 6

1878. New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., n.d. [1878]. 4 pp undated ads. Original red-orange wrappers decorated in black and gold. First Edition, second printing, second binding, of this collection of nine short tales. The title one is an amusing tale about the author hearing a musical jingle and having it "infect" his mind like a virus -- wiping out his memory and incapacitating his ability to write, until he inadvertently passes the "virus" off to someone else. Another tale, "The Loves of Alonso Fitts Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton," is said to be the first story written that includes a telephone as part of the plot (24 months after Bell's patent). The second printing is identified by (a) Twain's name on the title page in facsimile autograph rather than in roman type; (b) two leaves of ads, rather than one; (c) correction of the error "health offi...... could" on p. 91, and (d) sixteen lines of text (postscript added) on p. 101. The book was issued simultaneously in cloth and in wrappers -- each of… Read More

New York: Slote, Woodman & Co, 1878. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small Octavo, 140, [4] pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Second edition, with Twain's name printed as facsimile autograph on title page, as well as issue points present on pages 91 and 101. Cloth binding 2, with illustration of Twain's scrapbook on rear pastedown. Scuffing to boards and along edges. Fraying and chipping to cloth on spine and corners. Some splitting to hinge of spine, measuring about one inch from head. Age-toning and scatterd foxing to interior pages. Front free endpaper and title page detached from textblock but loose within. With four pages of advertisements in rear. Shelved in Case 13. BAL 3378. 1376364. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: Slote, Woodman & Co, 1878. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small Octavo, 140, [4] pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Second edition, with Twain's name printed as facsimile autograph on title page, as well as issue points present on pages 91 and 101. Clothing binding 2, with blue endpapers decorated with caricatures, and illustrations of Twain's scrapbook on rear pastedown. Scuffing along edges of boards. Fraying to cloth on head and tail of spine. Light bumping to corners. Age-toning to interior pages. With four pages of advertisements in rear. Shelved in Case 13. BAL 3378. 1376204. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878. First edition, second issue. Minor wrinkling to front free endpaper and next two pages, spine tips fraying, still very goo with hinges firm, in custom mylar cover.. Blue cloth decoratively stamped in black. Blanck, 3378.

New York: Slote, Woodman & Co, 1878. Second Edition. Cloth. Very good. Second edition. 16mo; 140pp [4]; green cloth, black stamped vignette designs and title, author and a caricature of Twain on the front cover, gilt stamped title to spine, design blind stamped to back cover; glazed cream eps with no decoration; Author's name in facsimile autograph on title page; Mark Twain's Scrap Book advertising to rear paste down; scuffing to cover edges with bumped corners and loss, light soiling, age toning of paper, light foxing on a few pages; very good minus. (BAL 3378). Includes the following stories: Punch, Brothers, Punch!, Speech on the Weather at the New England Society's Seventy-First Annual Dinner, Rogers, Map of Paris (with Map), Random Notes of an Idle Excursion, Speech at a Dinner of the Knights of St. Patrick, An Encounter with an Interviewer, The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence, Etc., and The Canvasser's Tale.

Slote, Woodman & Co. Collectible - Good. New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878. 16mo. 140pp. Illus. Good+ book. Spine ends worn. Embossed orange cloth boards a bit edgeworn and corners bent; back board a bit rubbed. Inquire if you need further information.

New York:: Slote, Woodman & Co.,, [1878].. First edition.. publisher's red wrappers printed in gold and black; preserved in a custom slipcase and chemise.. Front wrapper neatly reatttached; tiny chips to corner of wrapper and bottom of spine; old gift inscription.. 12mo,. BAL 3378; state I; first state of binding.