Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Original red cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, first printing (with no boxed ads on the title verso). This is a sizable (523-page) collection of 38 very short stories -- from a great many years, starting with his "Advice to Young.....
Hartford [etc.]: The American Publishing Company, 1876. 4 pp ads dated 1 Dec 1876. Original blue cloth decorated in black and gilt, all page edges gilt. First American Edition, later state -- a combination of the two printings Blanck identifies as "2c" and "3" (all of these are dated 1876).....
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. Original olive-green cloth pictorially decorated in black and dark green. First Edition of this novel in which Twain tried, unsuccessfully, to recreate the character of Colonel Sellers from THE GILDED AGE. This American edition came out in late March or early April.....
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"Elmira [NY], Apl. 19 [1872]." One side of a sheet of lined paper, with "Saml. Clemens | Elmira | April 19/72" written (by the recipient?) on the verso. The text of this early letter reads: What is your _new_ number? I only know 149 Asylum. Wm. C. Smythe (whose letter I enclose).....
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From the Bazaar Budget, Hartford, June 4, 1880. [No place: privately printed for Merle Johnson, 1928.] Original folded leaf forming four pages. First Edition. Twain originally wrote this chapter, "The Whipping Boy's Story" -- the tale of a boy trying to ride an unrideable bull -- as part of THE.....
An Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Irvington-on-the-Hudson NY: J.B.Walker, October 1899. Original tan wrappers printed in red and blue. First Appearance of Twain's opening salvo in his scathing attack on Mary Baker Eddy and her quickly-growing Christian Science Church. There would be more pieces in subsequent issues of Cosmopolitan, all of which.....
With Notes Containing Corrections to Date. Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Original red cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition, first issue, of one of Twain's more controversial works, in which he takes to task Mary Baker Eddy and her sect. The genesis of Twain's.....
Illustrated by W.T. Smedley. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and white. First Edition in book form (preceded only by a wrappered tract published earlier in 1904 by the National Anti-Vivisection Society in London) This illustrated tale of a dog is.....
Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1905. Original red cloth decorated in white and black. First Edition of this volume containing "several of Mark Twain's funniest sketches, all narrating various journalistic experiences of his youth." As noted on the copyright page, each of these tales had appeared earlier.....
Original Stories, Essays, and Poems... Edited by John Brougham and John Elderkin. Illustrated. Boston: William F. Gill and Company, 1875. Original brown cloth elaborately decorated in black and gilt, beveled edges, all page edges gilt. First Edition, first printing (with the proper issue points on both sides of the title.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1909. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and white. First Edition. This fascinating piece begins, "Well, when I had been dead about thirty years, I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, I had been whizzing through space all that time.....
Translated from the Original MS. Illustrated by F. Strothmann. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in grey, green, white and black. First Separate Edition. Twain wrote a series of manuscripts, most not published during his lifetime, on the theme of Adam and Eve.....
Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black, white and brown. First Edition of this tale similar to Twain's earlier A DOG'S TALE. Told from the horse's point of view, this is the tale of Buffalo Bill's fictional favorite scout.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in gilt and lettered in black. First Edition of this collection of eight essays, such as "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences" and "Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story." It is believed that this edition consisted of.....
Riverdale on Hudson, NY: January 30-31, 1902. On envelope of letter from Miss Elisabeth Marbury (included). Signed "S.L.C.". These two documents (letter, plus envelope with note) involve the planned production on Broadway of a musical version of Mark Twain's novel A YANKEE AT THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR, first published.....
Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Edition, first issue. The title story, one of Twain's darker themes, is "a parable about a smug all-American town whose citizens, never having been tempted, take.....
Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Edition, first issue. The title story, one of Twain's darker themes, is "a parable about a smug all-American town whose citizens, never having been tempted, take.....
Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Edition, first issue. The title story, one of Twain's darker themes, is "a parable about a smug all-American town whose citizens, never having been tempted, take.....
New York: Sheldon & Company, n.d. [1871]. Original printed wrappers. First Edition, second state (with the Ball Black & Co. ad on the inside front cover) of this comically-illustrated burlesque. This title was also issued in cloth. This is a near-fine copy (very little wear other than one small corner chip.....
[1 of 350 copies] Arranged with Comment by Albert Bigelow Paine. Two Volumes. Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1917). Bound in contemporary dark green morocco and marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt-paneled compartments. First Edition, first printing, one of 350 copies of the Limited issue.....
[New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1891.] Original 13-1/2" x 9" game-board of heavy paper stretched over a wooden frame, with score-card on one side and "The Game" instructions on the reverse. First Edition of this memory-building game invented by Twain -- bearing a patent date of August 18.....
Now First Published in Complete Form. Sold only by Subscription. Hartford, Conn., and Chicago, Ill.: The American Publishing Company, 1875. Original three-quarter morocco with paneled spine and brown cloth boards, all page edges gilt. First Edition, second and usual issue, of this collection of amusing sketches. These sketches are quite.....
With an Introduction by William Dean Howells. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1910. Original red cloth with front cover monogram in gilt. First Edition of the first collection of Twain's speeches -- 104 of them, spanning his entire career -- published two months after he died. These speeches.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. 32 pp ads dated Sep 1897. Original blind-stamped maroon cloth. First English Edition of the book published in America as FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR ("there is a possibility that this London edition was issued a few days prior to the American edition but the record is.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922. 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with front cover MT monogram in gilt. First Edition, first printing (with Harper's date code D-W, signifying April 1922); copies without this date code are reprints, even if still dated 1922. Twain's tale "The Mysterious.....
