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Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins
by TWAIN, Mark
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Beverly Hills, California, United States
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About This Item
Hartford, Conn: American Publishing Company, 1894. With Marginal Illustrations. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1894.
First American edition, BAL first state (with sheets bulking about 11/8 inches, and with title leaf conjugate with leaf 3). Octavo. [6], 15-432 pp. Frontispiece portrait (with facsimile autograph 1 7/16 inches wide). Title-page printed in red and black.
Original brown cloth decoratively stamped in black and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Edges sprinkled brown. Original drab gray endpapers. Some mild wear to cloth, mainly at edges and head and tail of spine. Previous owner's ink signature on front free endpaper. Some light toning. Some of the illustrations are lightly hand-colored. Overall a very good copy.
"In this book the author returns to his native Mississippi River of before the War with its background of a few wealthy slave holding families. The story revolves about the changing of infants in the cradle and a final uncovering of the act by the protagonist, Pudd'nhead Wilson, by means of fingerprinting" (Johnson).
BAL 3442. McBride, p. 170. Johnson, Twain, pp. 59-61.
HBS 67941.
$400.
First American edition, BAL first state (with sheets bulking about 11/8 inches, and with title leaf conjugate with leaf 3). Octavo. [6], 15-432 pp. Frontispiece portrait (with facsimile autograph 1 7/16 inches wide). Title-page printed in red and black.
Original brown cloth decoratively stamped in black and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Edges sprinkled brown. Original drab gray endpapers. Some mild wear to cloth, mainly at edges and head and tail of spine. Previous owner's ink signature on front free endpaper. Some light toning. Some of the illustrations are lightly hand-colored. Overall a very good copy.
"In this book the author returns to his native Mississippi River of before the War with its background of a few wealthy slave holding families. The story revolves about the changing of infants in the cradle and a final uncovering of the act by the protagonist, Pudd'nhead Wilson, by means of fingerprinting" (Johnson).
BAL 3442. McBride, p. 170. Johnson, Twain, pp. 59-61.
HBS 67941.
$400.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67941
- Title
- Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins
- Author
- TWAIN, Mark
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- American Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, Conn
- Date Published
- 1894
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American Literature|Illustrated Books|Nineteenth-Century Literature
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About Heritage Book Shop, LLC
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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