[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.....
Arranged with Comment by Albert Bigelow Paine. Two Volumes. Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1917). Original red cloth, top edge gilt and other edges uncut, front and rear covers undecorated. First Edition, first printing, in the publisher's "Library" binding -- of the first collected edition of Twain's.....
being a description of the Leading Business Houses, Manufactories, Inventions, Etc. of the Pacific Coast, together with Copious and Readable Selections, chiefly from California Writers. Compiled by J. Price and C.S. Haley. San Francisco: Francis & Valentine..., 1872. Original dark olive cloth, with "Tales, Sketches, Poetry and Music" in gilt.....
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., n.d. [1878]. 4 pp undated ads. Original red-orange wrappers decorated in black and gold. First Edition, second printing, second binding, of this collection of nine short tales. The title one is an amusing tale about the author hearing a musical jingle and having it.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. 32 pp ads dated May 1882. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of tales, which preceded the American edition by about a week (Blanck) or by four days (Johnson). The title tale is Mark Twain's jab at detectives, both.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. 32 pp ads dated May 1882. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of tales, which preceded the American edition by about a week (Blanck) or by four days (Johnson). The title tale is Mark Twain's jab at detectives, both.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. 32 pp ads dated May 1882. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of tales, which preceded the American edition by about a week (Blanck) or by four days (Johnson). The title tale is Mark Twain's jab at detectives, both.....
With 26 Illustrations by Dan Beard. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. 32 pp ads dated Feb 1894. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First English Edition, apparently published one day after the American one (though this is far from certain). In this tale Tom, Huck and Jim travel about.....
With Marginal Illustrations. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1894. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First Edition, first printing, of "Those Extraordinary Twins," which had not yet been published in the U.K.; First American Edition, first printing, of "Pudd'nhead Wilson," which had appeared a few weeks earlier in Britain. PUDD'NHEAD.....
With Marginal Illustrations. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1894. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First Edition, first printing, of "Those Extraordinary Twins," which had not yet been published in the U.K.; First American Edition, first printing, of "Pudd'nhead Wilson," which had appeared a few weeks earlier in Britain. PUDD'NHEAD.....
Being Heretofore Uncollected Sketches published in the Golden Era in the Sixties... With Many Drawings by Lloyd Hoff. Collected and Edited, with an Introduction by Franklin Walker. San Francisco: George Fields, 1938. Original green paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and green spine label, with dust jacket. First Edition of.....
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New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. 9 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth decorated in brown, black and gilt. First Edition of this collection of nine pieces -- some fiction and some non-fiction. The title tale speculates what would happen if a perfectly honest American chap were turned.....
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. Original yellow-orange boards with white cloth spine, with dust jacket. First Edition, being the fifth volume in Boni & Liveright's "Penguin Series." Published nine years after his death, this is one of Twain's few books that appeared under his real name, without mention of.....
Translated from the French by A. Estoclet. Illustrated by George Roux. New York: Cassell Publishing Company, n.d. [1890]. Original light blue cloth pictorially decorated in black. First American Edition (also the first edition in English). Quoting from a contemporary review (cited in T&M) -- Like most of M. Jules Verne's books.....
With Illustrations. New York: R.F. Fenno & Company, n.d. [1895]. Original olive green cloth pictorially decorated in black and silver. First American Edition in cloth of this tale of buried treasure, described as follows in a contemporary review (cited in T&M): Captain Antifer's father had befriended an Egyptian prisoner at Jaff.....
Illustrated. London: Grant Richards, (1909). Original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in ochre, yellow and light blue. First British Edition, and first edition in English. This is a tale of a meteor's close brush with Earth, with the main events taking place in Virginia. The story had first appeared in.....
Translated by W. H. G. Kingston. Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, all edges gilt. First British Edition of the tale also known as THE BLACK INDIES and as UNDERGROUND CITY. The unusual tale takes place deep.....
New York: George Munro, 1878. 2 pp undated ads. Original green cloth. First Edition in English of this new and brilliant narrative of adventures by sea and land, embracing exciting incidents of the whale fishery in the Southern Ocean, and the African Slave Trade, all told in the inimitable graphic manner.....
With Numerous Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First American fully-illustrated edition, from the sheets of the first British edition. These four tales include three that are among Jules Verne's earliest: "A Drama in the Air" (appeared in.....
[a handsome copy] With Numerous Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First American fully-illustrated edition, from the sheets of the first British edition. These four tales include three that are among Jules Verne's earliest: "A Drama in the.....
Or The Memoirs of a Dragoon. A Tale of the Days of Dumouriez. With Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888. One preliminary page undated ads (with this title the last added). Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black. First British Edition, also the first hardbound and.....
Translated from the French. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874. 40 pp ads dated August 1874. Original orange cloth decorated in black and gilt, beveled, all page edges gilt. First British Edition, published in September 1874 -- the same month as Scribner Armstrong's American edition. This volume consists.....
New York: W.L. Allison Company, n.d. [1897]. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in brown and white. First American Edition of this remarkable tale of "an enormous ship built by the Yanks, that has a great city on it, and is navigated about the world, playing ducks and drakes with geography.....
Translated from the French by Mary de Hauteville. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. 32 pp ads dated Nov 1882. Original ochre cloth pictorially decorated in brown, black and green. First British Edition (and first edition in English). This tale is a bit different from many of Verne's.....
Translated from the French by Mary de Hauteville. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. 32 pp ads dated September 1883. Original mauve-grey cloth pictorially decorated in brown, black and (for the ray) green. First British Edition (and first edition in the English language). This tale is a bit.....
