New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1907]. First edition, late issue, with "published February, 1907" on copyright page, and the frontispiece with a facsimile rather than printed signature; but with 18 titles listed in the list of uniform works and list of illustrations set in 6 lines; 8vo..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1905. First edition of this collection of Twain's short stories, although all had seen previous publications; 8vo, pp. [8], 3-82, [2]; frontispiece and 6 plates; publisher's original pictorial red cloth a little dull; preserving the original printed dust jacket which is slightly worn..... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1949. First edition, this one of 155 copies (this, no. 46); 8vo, pp. [6], 374, [1]; limitation notice loosely laid in, as issued; fine copy in the dust jacket and a lightly rubbed publisher's box with a printed paper label on the front panel. "Printed..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1970. Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, Joseph Low, large 8vo, pp. [iii]-xiv, 301, [3]; 95 illustrations throughout text, 38 in color, by Joseph Low; printed at the Stinehour Press after a typographic design by Peter Oldenburg; original orange, brown, and black..... More
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New York & London: Harper & Bros., n.d., [ca. 1905-06]. 8vo, very good copy in original unlettered black cloth, with 3 sample spines mounted on pastedowns, the endpapers of two different paper stocks, and consisting of a gravure portrait frontispiece of Clemens, 2 sample title pages, 2-page spread advertising this..... More
Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1976. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies (this, no. 4); 8vo, pp. [30]; original terracotta cloth, printed paper label on upper cover; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. A previously unpublished translation by Clemens of a portion of a popular German story by Wilhelm Hauff..... More
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1949. Limited edition, one 15 out-of-series copies, with out of series stamp on colophon and "office copy" inserted instead of a number, signed by Honoré Guilbeau and numbered as "office copy", folio, pp. viii, [4], 275, [1]; text illustrations, blue and gilt initials; quarter blue..... More
New York: The Century Co.; London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1887]. Large 8vo, pp. viii, 975, [1]; text in double column; illustrated throughout by artists such as Henry Fenn, A. B. Frost, E. W. Kemble, W. Taber, and others; original half brown morocco; spine faded, edges rubbed; all else very good..... More
New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1904. First separate edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 89; frontispiece, illus. in text; orig. dec. red cloth stamped in white, black, green and purple; spine a bit sunned, else near fine, with no flaking of the colors. BAL 3480. More
New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1924. First edition, first printing, BAL's variant A ("sequence tentative"); 2 vols., 8vo, 2 gravure frontispieces; very good, sound set in orig. blue cloth stamped in gilt, t.e.g., dust jackets, and publisher's slipcase; spines of the jackets slightly sunned, the slipcase a little..... More
Hartford & Chicago: American Publishing Co., 1875. First edition, second state (without "From 'Hospital Days'" on p. 299, and with no footnote on p. 120), sq. 8vo, pp. [8], 17-320; frontispiece, illus. in text throughout; orig. blue cloth stamped in gilt and black, rebacked with old spine laid down; otherwise..... More
Toronto: Belford Brothers, publishers, 1876. First Canadian edition, small 8vo, pp. [6], 341, [1], [4] Belford ads; original brick red pebble-grain cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; cloth cracked along joints, spine a little darkened; all else very good and sound. A piracy, "almost a...... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. First edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xv, [1], 17-277, [1], [8] ads; illustrated throughout; extremities lightly rubbed, small stain on front cover at the bottom and a smudge at the lower corner of the back cover; otherwise a very good copy in original pictorial..... More
New York: Sheldon & Co., [1871]. First edition, second state, with ad on inside front wrapper; 12mo, pp. 47, [1]; full-page engraved illustrations throughout, pictorial self-wrappers, some light spotting and light tidemark on upper cover, residue on spine suggesting an old binding, very good and clean. BAL 3326. More
May, 1924. Folio, 68pp., orig. pictorial wrappers, near fine; ex-MHS. Contains articles by Albert Bigelow Paine, Cleveland Rodgers, Clarence Rice, Edgar White, and others, and accounts of Clemens as related by Joseph Conrad and U.S. Grant. More
[N.p. publisher not identified], Anno 1931. Edition limited to 500 copies; 8vo, pp. [2], 10, [2]; staple bound in gray printed wrappers; wrappers edge-worn, one-inch closed tear near gutter just touching first line of text on a few pages, bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889. First edition, later issue of the caption on p. 59 without the s-like ornament between the two words, square 8vo, pp. 575, [1], [2] ads; illustrations in the text throughout, a number of them full-page; original gilt decorated green cloth stamped in..... More
Milwaukee, WI: Maledicta Press Publications, 1976. First edition printed in a limited but unspecified number; small 4to, pp. [6], 25, [1]; green cloth with gilt illustration of a cod; unclipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed; near fine. Bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. Contains a...... More
New York: Sheldon & Company, [1871]. First edition, first state (without the advert on verso of title), slim 12mo, 47-[48]pp., illus. in text; spine ends and corners worn, else a very good copy in orig. terra cotta cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover. Clemens' third book. BAL 3326. More
Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, [1985]. 100th anniversary edition, 8vo, pp. xxxi, [1], 417, [4]; illustrations by Barry Moser; fine in original green cloth, jacket with small chips and tears at top of spine. Foreword by Henry Nash Smith. More
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1893. First edition, 8vo, pp. 260, [2 blank], [8 ads]; frontispiece illustration by Dan Beard; original tan decorated cloth, spine gilt; faint dampstain to cloth, rear just hinge starting, previous owner's name on front free endpaper; good or better. BAL 3436. More
At London [but almost certainly America as the dust jacket flap bears a $6.50 price]: printed for subscribers only and are to be sold at ye beare Back-Side in Maiden Lane [i.e. Land's End Press, 1969]. Folio, pp. [24]; printed in blue throughout; eight full page illustrations; blue printed paper..... More
