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A Tramp Abroad
by Twain, Mark
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1880. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880, first edition in mixed states: with text block measuring 1 15/16" thick, and second state frontis captioned "Titian's Moses". 8vo., 631pp., three hundred and twenty-eight illustrations + 1pp. publisher's ad. Brown cloth with blind embossed covers with gilt designs and titles, buff colored endpapers, speckled edges. Mild wear at the tips and spine extremities, moisture indication to rear pastedown with some wrinkling, light water stain to margin of last two free endpapers, fade spotting to rear cloth, slight fade to edge of spine, else very good. Pages and plates clean and crisp, no foxing, text block tight. BAL 3386. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.
Synopsis
A Tramp Abroad is a work of non-fiction travel literature by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms of transport as they traverse the continent.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006481
- Title
- A Tramp Abroad
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- American Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, CT
- Date Published
- 1880
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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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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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- First Edition
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- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- BAL
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- 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...
- 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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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