Following the Equator
by Twain, Mark
Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a "revolutionary" typesetting machine.
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Following the Equator: a Journey around the World
by Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st ed
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- 1897
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- Hardcover
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Hamden, Connecticut, USA
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$150.00
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Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, illustrations, 712p. 23cm. Original blue cloth. 23 cm. Spine lettering somewhat faded. Extremities rubbed (most heavily at base of backstrip). Foxing on tissue guard between frontis and title-page. No signature mark on page 161.
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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World [First Edition, First State]
by Twain, Mark
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition, First State
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- 1897
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Roswell, Georgia, USA
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Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, 1897. 1897. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE [ONLY ONE PUBLISHER NOTED ON TITLE PAGE, THE AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY]. Blue binding, decorative designs in gilt and gilt lettering, frontispiece photo of Mark Twain with tissue overlay, vintage illustrations/photos throughout along with vintage illustrated/photo plates, 712 pages. Condition of binding: some light shelf/handling wear. Tears to front… Read more about this item Item Price
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Following the Equator
by Mark Twain
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Trade Edition
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- 1897
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Centreville, Virginia, USA
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$300.00
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Hardcover VG. First Trade Edition. BAL 3451. Hardcover. First Edition. Decorated blue cloth. Illustrated with a frontispiece, plates, and text engravings. This copy has single Hartford imprint and the signature "11" at page 161. Former owner's bookplate on inside board. The inner joints are open but firm. Some edge wear to spine, boards, and tips. Some light spotting to front… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.00
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Following the Equator
by Mark Twain
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- Used - Good
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- No Jacket
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- 1897
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- Hardcover
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Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
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$70.00
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Hartford, CT: The American Publishing Co, 1897 Book. Good. Hardcover. Good in blue cloth with docorative elephant picture on front board, gilt decorated spine; hinges starting; frontispiece photo of Twain detached but present; rubbing to corners & extremities; po name on ffep; small stain at top of front board, and top of rear board; textblock clean & tight. Item Price
$70.00
FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR. A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD
by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
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- Used - Contents clean and hinges secure for this heavy book; small book label of E. C. Lovell on a front blank. Some loss of gilt to th
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- First Edition
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- 1897
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$937.50
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Hartford/New York: American Publ./Doubleday, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean and hinges secure for this heavy book; small book label of E. C. Lovell on a front blank. Some loss of gilt to the spine but overall Near Fine. Decorated blue cloth. Illustrated with a frontispiece, plates, and text engravings. BAL 3451. This copy with the preferred single… Read more about this item Item Price
$937.50
FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR; A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD
by Twain, Mark
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- Used - Very good+
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- 1897
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- Hardcover
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Columbia, Missouri, USA
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$441.00
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The American Publishing Company, 1897. Hardcover. Very good+. The American Publishing Company, 1897. 712pp., frontis. photograph of Twain/tissue-guard, black and white illustrations throughout. 8vo. Blue cloth with color plate on front cover, decorative gold titles on spine. BAL 3451. First state with !! Signature mark p.161, American Publishing Company lower edge of spine as well as on title-page.… Read more about this item Item Price
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FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR
by Twain, Mark
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- Used
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- 1897
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Yarmouth, Maine, USA
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$450.00
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1897. A Journey around the World. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1897. Original blue cloth with front cover plate and gilt-decorated spine.
First Edition, with the title page in the first and usual state (with no mention of McClure). This was Twain's travel narrative (beginning in Vancouver and ending in Cape Town, by way of Australia and India),… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR. A Journey around the World
by Twain, Mark
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- Used
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- 1897
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Yarmouth, Maine, USA
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$375.00
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1897. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1897. Original blue cloth with front cover plate and gilt-decorated spine.
First Edition, with the title page in what is generally considered the first state (with no mention of McClure). This was Twain's travel narrative (beginning in Vancouver and ending in Cape Town, by way of Australia and India), illustrated by eleven… Read more about this item Item Price
$375.00
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Following the Equator
by Mark Twain
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- Used
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- 9789000060962
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Oxford, Mississippi, USA
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$531.00
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First Edition. Item Price
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Following the equator, a journey around the world.
by TWAIN, Mark
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First
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- 1897
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- Hardcover; tight and secure
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, USA
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$599.00
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1897 Mark Twain 1st/1st Following the Equator Travelogue India Exploration RARE
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
― Mark Twain
Mark Twain and his works were immensely popular all on their own. Such notable characters as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn stood out above other 19th-century literary characters, and not just in the… Read more about this item Item Price
$599.00
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Following the Equator
by Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First edition
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- 1897
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- Hardcover
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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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$550.00
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Hartford, CN: The American Publishing Company, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large 8vo. [6], 7-712, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling and decorations on the spine, inset blue and pink decoration of an elephant on the front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of Mark Twain and by numerous in-text and full page illustrations (illustrations are… Read more about this item Item Price
$550.00
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FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR: A Trip Around the World
by Twain, Mark
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First Edition
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- 1897
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- Hardcover
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$450.00
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Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company, 1897. 712 pages. 193 illustrations by 11 different artists. Mixed state of the first edition: only one publisher on the title page and no signature "11" on page 161. The book is in very good+ condition: clean and tight; bright, unrubbed gilt on the spine; very minor edgewear and rubbing of… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
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Following the Equator
by Twain, Mark
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1897
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- Hardcover
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San Mateo, California, USA
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$216.00
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Hartford, Conn: The American Publishing Company, 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. With the fame and fortune achieved with Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, beloved Mark Twain went on a tour of world. The volume contains Twain's recollections, observations and stories of his journey, with all of the wit and humor one would expect from Twain. It's quoted… Read more about this item Item Price
$216.00
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World.
by Twain, Mark.
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- Used - Fine copy (small name stamps on end papers, title page, front hinge crudely repaired).
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- First edition.
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- 1897.
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- Blue cloth over boards, front cover stamped in gold and light blue with small pictorial pastedown (profile of an elephant), spin
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Fair Oaks, California, USA
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$275.00
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Hartford, Connecticut:: The American Publishing Company,, 1897.. First edition. . Blue cloth over boards, front cover stamped in gold and light blue with small pictorial pastedown (profile of an elephant), spine stamped in gold. Hardcover. . Fine copy (small name stamps on end papers, title page, front hinge crudely repaired).. 4to.. Very scarce in this condition.… Read more about this item Item Price
$275.00
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Following the Equator
by Mark Twain
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1897
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- Hardcover
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Clarence, New York, USA
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$250.00
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Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company, 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Following the Equator". Published by The American Publishing Company in 1897. Measures 9-¼" x 5-¾". 712 pages. First edition, first state with only one publisher and MDCCCXCVII listed on the title page, and with the signature mark 11 on page 161 (BAL 3451). Very good in… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
Following the Equator
by Twain, Mark
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1897
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Surprise, Arizona, USA
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$750.00
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Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897. First Edition. Near Fine. First issue, with signature mark "11" on page 161; octavo, 712 pages. Original blue pictorial cloth, designed by Frank Berkeley Smith (1869-1916), depicting an elephant with colors of gray, tan, blue and gilt; spine fully decorated in gilt. An exceptional copy, very good+ to near fine; a tight copy,… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
Following the Equator - A Journey Around the World
by Twain, Mark
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- Used - Very Good
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- None
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- 1st
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- 1897
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- Hardcover
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$150.00
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Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 712 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings by: Dan Beard, A. B. Frost, B. W. Clinedinst, F. Dielman, and more. Page 161 with page number in parenthesis and "11" appears at bottom of text beneath "and". A 5" area of moisture (?) fading along bottom… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
Following the Equator
by TWAIN, Mark
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- Used - VG++
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition / First Issue
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- 1897
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- Hardcover
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$595.00
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Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897. Endpapers professionally restored and book tightened. Handsome volume, bound in 1/2 green morocco with matching green boards, with five raised bands on spine, stamped in gold. The true First edition, First Issue with the single line imprint and with signature "11" at bottom of page 161. With over 190 illustrations including a… Read more about this item Item Price
$595.00
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Following the Equator.
by TWAIN, Mark.
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- Used
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- 1897
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London, GBR
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$1,884.15
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Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company,, 1897. Twain's most elaborately decorated book First edition, first issue, of Twain's travel narrative, handsomely bound by Bayntun. Having invested heavily in revolutionary but flawed typesetting machinery, by 1894 Twain was practically bankrupt. His solution was to undertake a tour of the British Empire, receiving an enthusiastic audience for his lectures in… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,884.15
Following the Equator
by Twain, Mark
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- Used - Good
- ISBN
- 9780880012805
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Mishawaka, Indiana, USA
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$5.73
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HarperCollins Publishers. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Item Price
$5.73