The Writings of Mark Twain (23 volumes)
by Twain, Mark (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Hartford, Conn: The American Publishing Company, 1901. Riverdale Edition. Hardcover. Octavo [21.5 cm] Textured white vellum over boards with paper title labels printed in red and black on the spines. Top edges gilt. Other edges deckled. Frontispiece illustrations with captions on tissue-guards printed in red. Title pages printed in red and black. In the publisher's plain blue cloth dust wrappers, which have kept the bindings outstandingly clean and bright. The number of each volume is handwritten in white ink on the wrapper's spine. The wrappers show light surface wear, and are occasionally just a little frayed at the edges. *May require extra postage due to size and weight.
The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress (1 & 2); A Tramp Abroad (3 & 4); Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (5 & 6); Roughing It (7 & 8); Life on the Mississippi (9); The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (10 & 11)); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (12); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (13); Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins (14); The Prince and the Pauper (15); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (16); Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (17 & 18); Sketches New and Old (19); Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective and Other Stories, Etc., Etc. (20); The American Claimant and Other Stories and Sketches (21); How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (22); My Début as a Literary Person with Other Essays and Stories (23). A set limited to Six Hundred and Twenty-five Copies. This set is No. 157.
An exceptionally well preserved and attractive set of Mark Twain's writings in the publisher's original dust wrappers.
The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress (1 & 2); A Tramp Abroad (3 & 4); Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (5 & 6); Roughing It (7 & 8); Life on the Mississippi (9); The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (10 & 11)); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (12); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (13); Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins (14); The Prince and the Pauper (15); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (16); Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (17 & 18); Sketches New and Old (19); Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective and Other Stories, Etc., Etc. (20); The American Claimant and Other Stories and Sketches (21); How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (22); My Début as a Literary Person with Other Essays and Stories (23). A set limited to Six Hundred and Twenty-five Copies. This set is No. 157.
An exceptionally well preserved and attractive set of Mark Twain's writings in the publisher's original dust wrappers.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64810
- Title
- The Writings of Mark Twain (23 volumes)
- Author
- Twain, Mark (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Riverdale Edition
- Publisher
- The American Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, Conn
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- Mark Twain; works
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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