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Mark Twain's Library of Humour
by Mark Twain
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Chatto and Windus, 1910 Book. Illus. by E W Kemble. Good. Dark Blue Cloth Boards. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Collection of humourous verse and prose, edited by Mark Twain and including many of his own contributions. Illustrated with 197 line drawings. The frontispiece has a protective tissue page. Embossed panel to front board contains gilt title. Gilt design and lettering to spine is darkened. Corners bumped, right hinge cracked, page edges marked and browned. Previous owner's name and date (1916) to front endpaper, otherwise good copy..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001370
- Title
- Mark Twain's Library of Humour
- Author
- Mark Twain
- Illustrator
- E W Kemble
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1910
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour;
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
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