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New York And London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+. 1906. First Printing. Hardcover. This edition is in near fine condition with bumped corners and light soiling to the pages in a very good+ dust-jacket with soiling and chipping; A comical telling of Eve’s time in the Garden of Eden and what came after. One of Mark… Read more about this item

Pleasantville, Ny/montreal: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.. Fine. 1984. Hardcover. 0895771853 . A Fine edition with no blemishing; Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, tells the story of an American, Hank Morgan, who is transported to the time of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Hank is amazed by… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1966. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. A Very Good Simon and Schuster book club edition in little tattered and sunned dust-jacket; Written referencing new and unpublished material, Kaplan begins the book during Twain's 31st year of life, heading East for the burgeoning new urban America of commerce,… Read more about this item

West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press. Fine. 1985. Leather. Hand-crafted and published by the Pennyroyal Press in an edition of 350 sets, this being #215, with the folio of 49 individual prints, originally unsigned, at the 100 year anniversary of the publication of the first edition. While uncalled for with this publication, in this set, Mr. Moser … Read more about this item

New York: Hippocrene Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. Second Printing. Cloth Spine. 0870521195 . Near Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, minor edgewear; Mark Twain records his hilarious and diverse observations and insights while on a fifteen-month walking trip through Central Europe and the Alps; 8vo; 426 pages .

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine condition in Very Good+, little rubbed dust-jacket; This book is a biography of Mark Twain and his travels.; 8vo; 342 pages .

New York: Harper & Brothers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1909. First Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. A most attractive first edition, first State, without inserted leaves pertaining to Greenwood's The Shakespeare Problem Restated. Just about Fine condition, top edges gilt, many pages still unopened. In the original, Near Fine dust-jacket, minute chipping along edges. Scarce… Read more about this item

New York: Crescent Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. [1974]. Hardcover. 0517388634 . A beautiful edition in Fine condition in an alike dust-jacket ; This book tells the story of Mark Twain and his world. It covers his life from his early years in Hannibal, Missouri, to his later years in California. It includes descriptions of his… Read more about this item

New York: Charles L. Webster & Co.. Very Good+. 1892. First Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. First edition, BAL 3434, original unrestored olive-green cloth binding in better than Very Good condition, little rubbing to extremities; The American Claimant is Twain's comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches, all revolving around the serious debate between the… Read more about this item

Boston: Anne & David Bromer. Fine. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A Fine first edition in miniature format, limited to 200 copies, this being #26 of 150 linen bound copies. Signed by Rez' Lingen of the Pootê Press, who also hand set and printed the book; Clemens' humorous contribution to an autograph book presented to Mrs.… Read more about this item

New York: Privately Printed. Very Good+. 1901. Limited Edition. Cloth. An attractive first and limited edition of nine hundred copes on specially made paper. BAL 3469. Clothbound in just about Near Fine condition. ; Includes Twain's "At the Dinner in His [Mark Twain's] Honor, November 10, 1900", pp. 374-379 ; 8vo; xxii, [ii], 414 pages .

New York: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine. 1912. First Edition. Periodical. A clean and complete set of 4 leaves, disbound from Harper's Magazine from December 1912 containing Mark Twain's "My Platonic Sweetheart". Near Fine. Scarce ; Mark Twain was always interested in those psychic phenomena which we call dreams. His own sleep fancies were likely to… Read more about this item

New York And London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Cloth. The November printing of the first edition in Very Good+ condition in the scarce, tattered dust-jacket, split along spine. BAL 3536; "A number of articles in this volume, even the more important, have not heretofore appeared in print. Few… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A first edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition, boards tips slightly bumped, lacking the scarce dust-jacket; One of the early standards of Mark Twain scholarship written by Minnie M. Brashear. Listed in BAL as selected reference for… Read more about this item

San Marino, CA: Huntington Library. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A handsome first edition/first printing, blue buckram, lettered in gilt. Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. BAL 3578; Few letters written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, are more revealing than those addressed to Mary Mason Fairbanks. The hitherto unpublished letters shed important … Read more about this item

New York Oxford: Oxford University Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1996. Limited Signed Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. 0195101464 . The Signed edition of The Oxford Mark Twain, limited to 300 copies in unread, As New condition in alike dust-jacket. Signed by Frederick Bush and Judith Yaross Lee directly on the half-title page; Foreword by… Read more about this item

New York: Boni and Liveright. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1919. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A wonderful first edition/first printing in about Fine condition. Rough yellow paper boards sides with white cloth shelfback; black lettering and border design, BAL 3527. The Very Good+, slightly spine-faded dustjacket shows some chipping with a few small tears. Scarce… Read more about this item

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. c1917. Original Cloth. A Fine Harper & Brothers edition in the original red, gilt decorated cloth, published in May 1917 (E-R) and following the 1892 first edition published by Charles L. Webster. In the scarce, still Very Good dust-jacket with a few chips… Read more about this item

New York and London: Harper & Brothers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1903. First Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. A just about Fine first edition in the original red decorated cloth, gently rubbed and little fading to spine. In the elusive, nearly Fine dust-jacket with only a minor chip to the bottom of the spine. In custom… Read more about this item

New York And London: Harper & Brothers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1905. First Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. First edition/first printing in bright red cloth in about Fine condition, only light acidic staining to pages opposite from plates, in very scarce dustjacket, lightly edge-worn. Copyright page with "published September 1905". An exceptional copy, hard to… Read more about this item