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Morocco. Etat : Very Good. Forty-three leaves, written on rectos only (but for two leaves which are written on both recto and verso) in purple and black ink, with numerous mansucript insertions and deletions, all in the author's hand. The leaves have been tipped onto stubs and bound circa 1915 by Bradstreet in full red straight-grain morocco with marbled endpapers, along with a frontispiece engraving of Twain, and a custom title-page reading "Mark Twain/Nicodemus Dodge/Chapter XXIII./A Tramp Abroad./Original Autograph Manuscript." The corresponding pages from a copy of the first edition have been bound in at the end along with a custom half-title. Two stages of composition are apparent. The first draft of the manuscript was written on blank paper in purple ink, the pages numbered 1039-1062,1067-1073, and 1087-1095. There was a later revision in black ink, with the pages renumbered in pencil or ink as follows; 780-799, 780(2)-785(2),785 1/2,789(2)-795(2), and 805-813. Expert restoration to the blank margins of the final leaf. A couple of other closed tears have been repaired, just touching a letter or two. Occasional smudging and fingerprinting throughout, else this important manuscript is in very good or better condition in a fine binding with only minor rubbing to the spine ends. The subject of the chapter is, in large part, a reminiscence from Twain's days as a printer's apprentice. Nicodemus Dodge, a seeming yokel from out of town, is hired at the printer's shop where the young Sam Clemens is working. The locals hope to make Nicodemus the butt of their jokes only to find [as Twain notes in a phrase that was ultimately deleted], that they "had fished for a sardine and caught a whale." With the bookplates of William Harris Arnold, the composer Jerome Kern, and the playwright Waring P. Jones. Twain never bothered to reclaim the manuscript for A Tramp Abroad following the book's publication. When the American Publishing Company was dissolved, three or four years after Twain's death, the manuscript was broken into chapters and dispersed. Most, like the present example, were bound by Bradstreet in red or blue morocco. It used to be that these complete manuscript chapters were not considered uncommon but, according to Robert Hirst of the Mark Twain Papers at Berkeley's Bancroft Library, they continue to disappear from the market as they find their way into institutions. With Berkeley's lump purchase of four chapters in 2001, only 16 of the original 56 chapters and appendices remained in private hands [Bancroftiana: Newsletter of the Friends of the Bancroft Library, Volume 118, Spring 2001].

8vo (140 x 224 mm). 3 ff., written in pencil on one side only, on cream-coloured Keystone Linen pad paper. Stored in a brown full morocco presentation portfolio with a reproduction portrait photograph of Mark Twain facing the MS leaves, individually inserted in cellophane sleeves bound at the left edge. Three leaves from Clemens s manuscript notes for a never-performed stage version of "Tom Sawyer" completed in early 1884, featuring sketches for the dramatic scene in which Tom, Huck and Becky encounter Injun Joe in the cave. The notes read, in part: "Enter Tom & Huck. Find bag. 'No use now - got to starve.' Tom says 'No.' Examine - money all there. Discover girls asleep. Wake them. Talk. We'll save you. Gives them his crust & some bats [.] Devilish face of Joe peeks out - will hive those boys - steals behind boys. Girls see him & scream. Boys jump up & stand paralyzed. Then they jump for the rock & the dodging begins for life & death, the girls looking over. (Maybe Tom trips him.) 'Now, Huck.' They fly - Joe pursues, the girls scream [.]". - As early as 1875, Clemens had asked his friend William Dean Howells to dramatize the then still-unpublished "Adventures of Tom Sawyer". Howells refused, but Clemens pressed ahead, composed a synopsis of his own to secure copyright and subsequently wrote at least some of the play. While these plans ultimately fell through, in 1883 the author once more attempted to translate his book into a stage success. This time, he managed to complete a dramatic version, and the play was duly copyrighted on 1 February 1884. Although Clemens "was so pleased with this piece of work that even before he had finished it he was pondering on the cast which might properly perform it and trying to dictate terms", the great theatre manager Augustin Daly did not take long to reject the chance to stage "Tom Sawyer", and after this "one hears no more about the author's attempting to dramatize his novel": clearly, Clemens reluctantly came to the conclusion that "his novel just could not be dramatized" (Blair, pp. 250-252). - These are three out of a total of 26 pages of working notes for the play, constituting the last three of a ten-page group termed "C" by their editor, Walter Blair. At the time of Blair's editorial work, the notes were dispersed among several libraries: all but one of this ten-page group (C1-3 and C5-10) were then among the Mark Twain Papers at Bancroft Library, UCA, Berkeley (while C4 rests in Yale University Library). The three pages at hand form a sub-unit that provides a later plan for Act IV, in which Tom and Becky, lost in the cave, encounter Injun Joe. - First page slightly browned along the edges and horizontal fold; folds and paper very lightly frayed. A fine survival of American literature in the author's own hand. - Published in: Mark Twain / Walter Blair (ed.), Hannibal, Huck, and Tom (Berkeley, UCA Press, 1969), pp. 393-395 (fols. C8-C10).

26 lines, in pencil, on both sides of a single sheet. 1 vols. 22.5 x 14 cm. (9 x 5-1â 2 in.). Clemens Promises Chatto 'Early Sheets' of Huck Finn. Important letter from Samuel Clemens to his British publisher Andrew Chatto at Chatto & Windus -two brief pages dense with early instructions regarding international aspects of the forthcoming publication of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Hartford Apl 1/84 Dear Mr. Chatto: Good - that settles Hughes! Now you can settle Tauchnitz - I enclose him. Chas L. Webster (my nephew by marriage and future publisher) will write to you about this time. I will send him your present letter so that he may take note of the early sheets suggestion. We can easily send the early sheets if we don't forget it, for we shall have this book in type & printed many months before we issue it. I shall secure Canadian copyright. Truly Yours, S.L. Clemens Chatto had begun corresponding with Clemens in March 1884 concerning Huckleberry Finn, and matters concerning translation and foreign publication, with a request for early sheets. William L. Hughes, in Paris proposed to put out French translations of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, and Chatto had vouched for him. Twain also instructs Chatto to make arrangements with Tauchnitz, the famed Leipzig publisher of continental editions of English-language authors, for an authorized edition. The letter also introduces his nephew Charles L. Webster to Chatto. "Charley", as Clemens called him, undertook the logistical work connected with publication of Huck Finn. Chatto had requested early proof sheets so that he could begin typesetting, with the aim of publishing British editions simultaneously with the New York edition. "Charley" did not forget, and "advance sheets" were sent to Chatto by Webster on 19 September 1884. It was only in November, when the defaced plate was discovered, that the intended publication schedule came apart. The Chatto & Windus edition (London) and Dawson Brothers (Montreal) edition were published on 10 December as foreseen. Clemens was in Toronto on publication day to establish legal domicile for these editions and Webster applied for foreign copyright in the author's name. The Tauchnitz (Leipzig) edition was published in printed wrappers dated January 1885. Production issues connected with replacing the offending page resulted in publication of the Charles L. Webster (New York) edition being delayed until 18 February 1885. This is one of only two known letters from Clemens to Chatto discussing Huck Finn (a note dated 3 March 1884 informed Chatto that "I am keeping Huck Finn back till next fall"). Webster, as Clemens' publisher, handled subsequent correspondence (transcripts of several related letters accompany this letter). This letter serves to indicate that Clemens' intention, from the beginning, was for the British edition to be derived from the American printing of the book. Provenance: Paul Bonner (Sale in Feb, 15, 1934 lot 71); James S. Copley Library. Mark Twain Project ID UCCL 11941. For the publishing history, see Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (2003), eds. Fischer, Salamo & Blair, p. 740; BAL 3414, 3415; Walter Blair, Mark Twain and Huck Finn (1960) Fine condition, in cloth folder 26 lines, in pencil, on both sides of a single sheet. 1 vols. 22.5 x 14 cm. (9 x 5-1â 2 in.).

5 pp. pen and ink on laid paper, folded bifolium letterhead of The Grosvenor, Fifth Ave. & Tenth St., and an added sheet. 1 vols. 8vo. 'gone where the woodbine twineth'. Excellent and substantial Clemens letter, to John Y. MacAlister (1856-1925), Librarian and Secretary of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a pioneer in education for librarians in Britain. MacAlister was a friend Clemens and a fellow investor in Plasmon. Reading in part: "Thank you for ever so much for the statistics. . Whenever my dividend is ready, let it go to Florence. I shall be able to give you the address about 10 days hence, I think . We learned by cable 4 or 5 days agao that we had secured a villa . All superstitions fail in a dry time. I have long been intending to write you & Bergheim, but superstition forbade me until I should succeed or fail in my effort to concentrate all my books in a single house. I give up. . I was dazed, dead, & of no use to you & your boy, when I ought to have been alert and alive, & brimming with interest and comradeship - well, I am still in the same situation. It has lasted more than 4 months, & still those Harpers are obstructing the settlement" Clemens outlines the basic terms of the agreement: "Harper & I were to buy from Bliss my contracts in 8 books for $50,000, I paying half . & Harper the same. . Harper to guarantee me not less than $25,000 a year for five years." There was a catch in the fine print concerning ownership of certain titles in the event of failure. Clemens was pragmatic: "Mr Rogers refuses to listen to that parenthesis up there but I told him this morning that if they would enlarge the guaranty to a fair & just sum, say $40,000 a year, so as to force them to use some energy, I shouldn't object to that clause. . I have found to my cost that with publishers it is No guaranty, no work. The guaranty proposed by the Harpers is only half as large as it ought to be." A notable Clemens letter, with allusions to his wife's ailing health and their move to the Villa di Quarto in Florence and his ill-fated investments in Plasmon with Henry Butters, "it is $32,500 gone where the woodbine twineth, I think". More significantly, there is mentions of his friend and adviser H.H. Rogers, and details of the major publishing agreement of Clemens' final decade. It was in Florence that he began dictating the Autobiography. Fine. With mailing envelope addressed in Clemens' hand (soiled). In custom green half morocco case 5 pp. pen and ink on laid paper, folded bifolium letterhead of The Grosvenor, Fifth Ave. & Tenth St., and an added sheet. 1 vols. 8vo.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. First Edition. ; Contains the very first national appearance of the writing of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain). "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" with the byline S. L. C. In Volume II, No. 5. It's a humorous short article and is quite rare. This bound collection is lacking the cover but still bound together. The first few pages are loose with soiling and tattered edges. Beyond the first few pages, the pages are toned with some soiling but in good condition.

Newell, Peter. The Definitive Edition, Number 684 of 1024 sets signed by Twain (as both "Mark Twain" & "S.L. Clemens") on a tipped in leaf. Portrait frontispiece portrait by W. H. Bicknell in volume I, plates by Peter Newell throughout. 37 vols. 8vo (9 x 6 inches; 230 x 155 mm). SIGNED. This edition is signed twice by Clemens -- under both his real and pen names. Clemens signed the fly-leaf in 1906 in anticipation of the definitive edition of his works. The statement to that effect is signed by the editor, Albert Bigelow Paine. Original quarter cloth and boards, paper spine labels. Fine, spine labels with some fading Portrait frontispiece portrait by W. H. Bicknell in volume I, plates by Peter Newell throughout. 37 vols. 8vo (9 x 6 inches; 230 x 155 mm) The Definitive Edition, Number 684 of 1024 sets signed by Twain (as both "Mark Twain" & "S.L. Clemens") on a tipped in leaf.

3 pages. 8vo. On black-edged mourning paper. With envelope. To Miss Helen Ingleby "& the other friends", of Heacham Hall, Norfolk, describing how his family and friends would play the Meisterschaft to audiences of hundred friends (".not ten of whom knew the German tongue, but they always had an enjoyable time just the same, for we played it with tremendous spirit. I think I appeared in only one scene. it was between papa & the German boarding-house Frau, & these parts were done in English, & were not written down, but made up as we went along as a convenience for us incapables, as I was not able to memorize a part."). 'IT IS A PLEASANTLY ASTONISHING THING TO BE GREETED WITH SALUTATIONS FROM THE BLOOD OF POCAHONTAS' Mark Twain writes to a descendant of John Rolfe and Pocahontas at Heacham Hall, Norfolk; this being the Rolfe family seat, which the princess and her son, Thomas Rolfe, visited in 1618, a year before her death; Twain adding that "it is a long time since anything less expected has happened to me. It makes me feel pretty recent, as to American origin". His three-act Meisterschaft (1888) was described as a 'Patent Universally-Applicable Automatically-Adjustable Language Drama. adjustable to any tongue, and performable in any tongue'.

Superbly bound in finely woven green cloth and stamped brightly in gold and black on the front boards and on the spine. A remarkably fresh-looking copy in gleaming green woven cloth with some professional restoration to the extremities, especially to the corners and the top and bottom of the spine ends which have been professional treated to match exactly the color of the boards. Very clean and tight throughout. With the following first issue points: 1)"Him and Another Man" illustration listed at p. 88 later changed to "87".2) Misprint "with the was" on page 57 later corrected to "with the saw". 3) Misprint "Decided" on page 9 later changed to "Decides" . 4) The second "5" on p. 155 is in a slightly different font. 5) With the letter "L" missing from "Col" on p 143. 6) With the scarf on the table beneath the marble bust of Twain and with the slug of "Heliotype Printing Co." and "Boston and New York" at the bottom of the page. Note: Bottom corner of p. 157 has been torn off. There are also a few lightly creased top corners caused by dog-earring and an occasional touch of foxing. Otherwise, very good plus condition in a gorgeous binding. With a matching green slipcase. As Ernest Hemingway proclaimed: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(or, in more recent editions,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel byMark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among theGreat American Novels, the work is among the first in majorAmerican literatureto be written throughout invernacularEnglish, characterized bylocal color regionalism. It is told in thefirst personbyHuckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer AbroadandTom Sawyer, Detective) and a friend ofTom Sawyer. It is a direct sequel toThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along theMississippi River. Set in aSouthernantebellumsociety that had ceased to exist about 20 years before the work was published,Adventures of Huckleberry Finnis an often scathingsatireon entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. Perennially popular with readers,Adventures of Huckleberry Finnhas also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. The book was widely criticized upon release because of its extensive use of coarse language. Throughout the 20th century, and despite arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist,[2][3]criticism of the book continued due to both its perceived use of racial stereotypes and its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger". (Wikipedia) First Edition with 1884 copyright date as correct.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 366 pages with frontispiece and 174 drawings illustrated by E W Kemble. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's full sheep with four raised spine bands with gilt lettering in black and red labels. Points: on page 13 the uncorrected 88; on page 57 the uncorrected "was" for "saw" and on page 9 the uncorrected "Decided" instead of "Decides". The first printing was completed by November 1884 and comprised 30,000 copies before the various bindings. The above corrections were all made in the second and third printings of 10,000 copies each (Firsts: Vol 8, number 9, page 31). The American edition was released in February 1885 and the British edition was released in December 1884. First issue of the First American edition. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective) and a friend of Tom Sawyer. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Condition: Previous owner's name to front end paper, spine ends professionally repaired, corners bumped, front end paper fore edge repairs else a very good copy.

A very handsome copy bound in the publisher's original full-calf binding with moroccan labels on the spine. Internally, very clean and tight; virtually unread. The front hinge has been reglued and is cracked along the marbled endpapers. This is the first issue with the tailpiece drawing of Twain in flames emanating from an urn on p.441, but with the second issue with the caption on p. 443 reading "The St. Charles Hotel". With occasional scuffing along the edges and some small pieces of leather missing at the top and bottom of the spine ends. A collector's copy of this classic rarely found in the original leather binding. Life on the Mississippi begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans, beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542.[2] It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' (apprentice) of an experienced pilot, Horace E. Bixby. He describes, with great affection, the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River in a section that was first published in 1876, entitled "Old Times on the Mississippi". Although Twain was actually 21 when he began his training, he uses artistic license to make himself seem somewhat younger, referring to himself as a "fledgling" and a "boy" who "ran away from home" to seek his fortune on the river, and playing up his own callowness and naïveté.In the second half, Twain narrates his trip many years later on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans, shortly followed by a steamboat journey from New Orleans to St Paul (with a stop at his boyhood home town of Hannibal, MO). He describes the competition from railroads, and the new, large cities, and adds his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates of 1883 on the title and copyright pages. First issue with "Twain in flames" on p 441.

Etat : Excellent. 1 and 1/2 pages SIGNED "SAML." to his wife Livy, written in pencil on lined stationery with a few revisions by Clemens, with the original stamped envelope addressed by him. In part: " I walked over 76 miles, yesterday, round about the town, inspecting the outsides of beautiful & costly dwellings, the water-works machinery, the street-decorations for the Grant (President Ulysses Grant) reception, & so forth, & had a good time.I went to three theatres with a lot of newspaper men; staid but a few minutes at two of them, but saw a whole act at the third. It was the first act of Pinafore, admirbly done by children-little children like ours. The characters were most excellently taken-it was a marvel to see it.I was home & in bed at 10 o'clock. Drank 11 gallons of Appollinaris water, & 1 glass of lager during the evening; dran one Scotch whisky in bed, read 2 hours, & went to sleep without needing the other punch." Clemens was in Chicago to attend the gala he refers to for President Grant who, like Clemens had recently returned from a stay in Europe. On the night of 11 November Clemens gave one of his most famous speeches at a banquet for the President at the Palmer House. Author Justin Kaplan in his renown biography "Mark Twain and His World", refers to this Chicago sojurn: "In Chicago, in November, Mark Twain celebrated his reconciliation with America, joined his destiny to that of Grant, and also, by his own account, reached the high point of his career as speechmaker." The letter shows the usual creasing at the folds otherwise a beautiful Twain letter in excellent condition.

Oblong 8vo. 1 p. Draft for a Viennese lecture programme: "The Lucerne Girl - 18 minutes / The Mexican Plug - 10 [minutes] / Encounter with an Interviewer - 12 [minutes] / [Altogether:] 40 minutes". - From October 1898 until May 1899 the Clemens family lived in Vienna, where his the writer's daughters Clara and Jean received piano lessons from Theodor Leschetitzky. After eight months at the Hotel Métropole they moved to nearby Kaltenleutgeben in May 1898, where his wife Olivia and Jean took a cold-water cure at the balneological sanitarium of Wilhelm Winternitz. Clemens himself attended the marksmen's parade (26 June 1898) and the funeral procession of Empress Elisabeth (17 September 1898) in Vienna, lodging at Hotel Krantz (later the Ambassador). This is where the unidentified collector must have approached the great humorist for a scrap of paper in his hand, at the foot of which is the annotation (in German): "From Marc Twain. 24 Feb. 99. Hotel Krantz".

1 p. 8vo. To the stenographer Miss Mary H. Beale, the Clemenses' neighbour in Hartford, Connecticut, who had applied for a position with the famous author: "In answer to yours of the 5th, I have to reply that my correspondence is not voluminous enough to make a short-hand amanuensis necessary, & in my other work I am obliged to use the pen myself". - On lined stationery with printed letterhead of the McIntyre Coal Company, founded by Mark Twain's father-in-law Jervis Langdon. - Folded twice; traces of former mounting and tape repairs; folds professionally restored.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, second issue, variant A, printed on laid paper with mispagination of prelims (BAL 3369). Unusually well-preserved (boards are often soiled and/or abraded). Hinges weakening but still holding firmly (this edition is notoriously fragile), one gathering proud at fore edge but not sprung from binding, light creases down front free endpaper, ink name on front paste-down (James H. Finney, Port Jervis NY). 1876 Hard Cover. xvi, [17]-274, [6] pp. Blue cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations. Engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout text. Arguably the most important novel in the American literary tradition. Inspiration for multiple film, television, and theatrical adaptations, and iconic enough to inspire references in other media as well, from comic books to the popular song by Rush. Tom Sawyer has a nose for mischief. Growing up with his Aunt Polly and half-brother Sid, Tom has a way of looking for trouble. When young Tom Sawyer and his buddy Huckleberry Finn sneak out to the graveyard at midnight for what they deem to be good fun, what they don't expect is to witness a trio of body snatchers robbing a grave?and the consequences thereafter proving to be potentially catastrophic. Corralled by the limits of his small town, Tom Sawyer seeks a life that is unencumbered by rules and curfews. Alongside his buddy, Huck Finn, the duo make their way through what becomes an adventure of a lifetime, and one laden with secret hidden treasure.

[Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, being novelist Sir Walter Besant's copy, a friend of the author and an early public champion of this book. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 438; [34]. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Pictorial red cloth boards, brown floral endpapers, later adverts dated January 1885. Illustrated bookplate to pastedown "Walter Besant, M.A." An enthusiastically read copy with some leaves roughly/poorly opened, one of which (p.383) has a resulting chip/loss. Flyleaf with some abrasion caused by clumsy offset adhesive from bookplate, cloth neatly repaired to spine. Although used, this is a copy of great significance. Walter Besant was a prolific and successful novelist of the late-Victorian period. Like Charles Dickens, many of his books concerned life in London, poverty and social hardship. He was founder and first chairman of The Society of Authors and was acknowledged by Rudyard Kipling as an influence. Knighted for services to literature in 1895, he was also treasurer of the 'Atlantic Union', an association seeking to improve social relations between Britons and Americans. In 1898 Besant published a lengthy essay in Munsay's Magazine, praising this Huckleberry Finn and reckoning his choice might be 'perhaps unexpected' since it was not (at that time) 'one of the acknowledged masterpieces, or a book that had been reviewed over and over again'. Mark Twain was "delighted when Sir Walter Besant, the British novelist, critic, historian and philanthropist nominated Twain 'his favourite novelist' and Huck Finn as Twain's best book" (Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale). Twain wrote to 'Dear Sir Walter' from Vienna stating the article "makes me very proud - I have just read it in Munsey's for February" and elaborating how Besant had effectively conveyed what writers do not realise in their own work; "Thank you for compacting into words an unarticulated feeling. we often see in pictures and books things which an artist and author did not themselves know they had put there". Their mutual respect culminated in a friendship, and in June 1899 a dinner was held in Twain's honour at the Author's Club, London. After a cordial introduction from Besant, Twain gave an address in which he spoke of their personal friendship and also of friendship between England and America. Bloom; Mark Twain (2009). ALS, Feb.22, Samuel L Clemens [held at New York Public Library's Berg Collection].

Original Cloth. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition/first printing in bright red cloth in about Fine condition, only light acidic staining to pages opposite from plates, in very scarce dustjacket, lightly edge-worn. Copyright page with "published September 1905". An exceptional copy, hard to imagine a nicer copy to be found. BAL 3665. In custom made leather/cloth slip case; "This volume contains several of Mark Twain's funniest sketches, all narrating various journalistic experiences of his youth. These bits of literary whimsicality and adventure have become widely popular among the veteran humorist's well known writings" (from the dust-jacket) ; 8vo; [vi], 82, 6 plates pages.

[Literary classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi; 438; [2], blank. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Exquisitely bound by Frost of Bath in full scarlet polished calf with full gilt back, twin title labels, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, original decorative cloth covers preserved at rear, bound without adverts. Internally very clean, discreet owners stamp in purple ink to half-title, binding very fine. A beautiful copy housed in a fleece-lined cloth slip-case. Following the classic 'boy's own' adventures of the promising young gent Tom Sawyer, Twain here attempts a more mature, somewhat darker picture of a less privileged American childhood on the mighty Mississippi. Regarded by many as a corner-stone of American literature, it confronts issues such as slavery in a sympathetic yet humorously sardonic tone which belonged to Twain alone. BAL 3414. Listed in The Observer's All-Time 100 Best Novels [2003]. BMC No.261, pp.90-93.

[Literary classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi; 438 [34]. Catalogue dated October 1884. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Publisher's brown foliate endpapers. Presented in a black quarter morocco clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine, matching cloth over sides, and a fleece lining. Contents shaken within case, with some minor repairs to inside paper joints. Blind W.H. Smith & Son stamps to frontis and title page; a purple monogram stamp also to half-title. Occasional light thumbing and marking, otherwise a clean copy. Light wear only to boards, with toning to spine, and wear to head and tail. Very good. Following the classic 'boy's own' adventures of the promising young gent Tom Sawyer, Twain here attempts a more mature, somewhat darker picture of a less privileged American childhood on the mighty Mississippi. Regarded by many as a cornerstone of American literature, it confronts issues such as slavery in a sympathetic yet humorously sardonic tone which belonged to Twain alone.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 438+[52 ad] pages with frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Small octavo (7 /2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover and black decorative figures to cover and spine. First edition, first state with the publisher's ads dated 1884, precedes the American edition which was released in February 1885 and the British edition was released in December 1884. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. The book was widely criticized upon release because of its extensive use of coarse language. Throughout the 20th century, and despite arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist, criticism of the book continued due to both its perceived use of racial stereotypes and its frequent use of the racial slur. Twain initially conceived of the work as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that would follow Huckleberry Finn through adulthood. Beginning with a few pages he had removed from the earlier novel, Twain began work on a manuscript he originally titled Huckleberry Finn's Autobiography. Twain worked on the manuscript off and on for the next several years, ultimately abandoning his original plan of following Huck's development into adulthood. He appeared to have lost interest in the manuscript while it was in progress, and set it aside for several years. After making a trip down the Hudson River, Twain returned to his work on the novel. Upon completion, the novel's title closely paralleled its predecessor's: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). Condition: Spine age darkened, touch of rubbing to corners, some wear and age darkening to front issue guard, end papers renewed, closed tear to signature pages 369-384 probably during original binding process else a very good copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. [iv]+362 pages with frontispiece and plates. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with git lettering to spine and insignia to cover. First edition, mixed state in original red cloth. Has: February 1907 date and boxed ads with 17 volumes listed on the copyright page, six lines on illustration page, and perfect W in "bowlder" on line 14 page 5; frontispiece dated 1906. Later acket - has Capt. Stormfield in advertising from 1909.Christian Science is a 1907 book by the American writer Mark Twain. The book is a collection of essays Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. Although Twain was interested in mental healing and the ideas behind Christian Science, he was hostile towards its founder, Mary Baker Eddy. After publication of Twain's book, the editors of Cosmopolitan stated that although they had printed his original articles, his "serious and extended criticism may be said to represent the uninformed view of Christian Science", and that they were "anxious. to give both sides of the controversy" and so allowed Edward A. Kimball, a prominent Christian Scientist, an opportunity for a rebuttal, which was printed in 1907. Condition: spine sunned, very light rubbing to extremities, small area of discoloration on boards. Jacket spine discolored, soiling chipping, and rubbing else very good in about very good jacket.

1 S. Größeres Visitkartenformat. "I comply, with great pleasure [.]". - Eine stärkere Knickfalte am unteren Rand. Gut erhalten.

[Literary classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi; 438 [34]. Catalogue dated October 1884. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Publisher's brown foliate endpapers. A few reading marks within, discreet rubber stamped name to half title, faint erasure to reverse side of f.e.p., spine toned, frayed/chipped to spine ends, acceptable wear to covers. Very good. Following the classic 'boy's own' adventures of the promising young gent Tom Sawyer, Twain here attempts a more mature, somewhat darker picture of a less privileged American childhood on the mighty Mississippi. Regarded by many as a cornerstone of American literature, it confronts issues such as slavery in a sympathetic yet humorously sardonic tone which belonged to Twain alone. BAL 3414. Listed in The Observer's All-Time 100 Best Novels [2003]. BMC No.261, pp.90-93.

Hardcover. Riverdale Edition. Octavo [21.5 cm] Textured white vellum over boards with paper title labels printed in red and black on the spines. Top edges gilt. Other edges deckled. Frontispiece illustrations with captions on tissue-guards printed in red. Title pages printed in red and black. In the publisher's plain blue cloth dust wrappers, which have kept the bindings outstandingly clean and bright. The number of each volume is handwritten in white ink on the wrapper's spine. The wrappers show light surface wear, and are occasionally just a little frayed at the edges. *May require extra postage due to size and weight. The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress (1 & 2); A Tramp Abroad (3 & 4); Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (5 & 6); Roughing It (7 & 8); Life on the Mississippi (9); The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (10 & 11)); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (12); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (13); Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins (14); The Prince and the Pauper (15); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (16); Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (17 & 18); Sketches New and Old (19); Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective and Other Stories, Etc., Etc. (20); The American Claimant and Other Stories and Sketches (21); How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (22); My Début as a Literary Person with Other Essays and Stories (23). A set limited to Six Hundred and Twenty-five Copies. This set is No. 157. An exceptionally well preserved and attractive set of Mark Twain's writings in the publisher's original dust wrappers.

First edition, first issue with Twain's name on title in roman, thirteen lines of text on page 101 and the reading "health offi.could" on page 91, 4 lines from the bottom. Decorations, advertisements for "Mark Twain's Scrapbooks"on the verso of the last leaf. Sm. 8vo. BAL 3378 Original red coated pictorial paper wrappers with spine reading "Mark Twain's Sketches. Price, 25 Cents." as in BAL binding 1 for paper binding. Some chipping, creases and short tears of binding, browning of text, else a very good copy of this piece that tends to appear in less than fine condition. Boards box Decorations, advertisements for "Mark Twain's Scrapbooks"on the verso of the last leaf. Sm. 8vo First edition, first issue with Twain's name on title in roman, thirteen lines of text on page 101 and the reading "health offi.could" on page 91, 4 lines from the bottom.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Handsomely bound in the publisher's original green cloth brightly decorated with gilt and embossed figures on the front boards. Bright gilt on the spine with a touch of fraying to the top and bottom of the spine ends. Attractive floral endpapers. With an amorial bookplate on the front paste-down and a small address sticker at the top of the front endpaper. Very clean and tight throughout. This is the first issue with the "S" design on p. 59, but with the later issue of broken type in the left-hand bottom corner of p 72.Two pages of ads at the end. A desirable collector's copy in the primary first issue state. "This satirical time travel fantasy was composed after Twain had read Malory's famous version of the legends of the knights of the Round Table. An unusual entry into the time-travel novels of the 19th century, featuring a fantastical (that is, unexplained and natural) means of landing in another time rather than a mechanical (science fiction) means: like Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Bellamy's Back Ward (and later, Johnson's Light Ahead for the Negro), the hero travels in time after a loss in consciousness. Here Hank travels backwards in time, rather than forward, into Arthurian England - where he uses his modern knowledge to play the part of a magician. From across the centuries Twain can use the time-honored science-fiction tradition of distance, physical or temporal, to comment obliquely on the issues of his own contemporary world." (Type Punch Matrix) First Ediiton with matching dates of 1889 on the title and copyright pages. First issue with "S" design on p. 59.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 149 pages with two frontispiece plates. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover and gilt head page ends in original jacket. (McBride page 233; Blanck:3509; Firsts volume 8, number 7/8 page 7) First American edition, second state with the publisher's note bound in after the title page. Twain was sincerely on the side of the Baconians in the Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy and he explains why in this essay. It also contains revealing autobiographical passages, and so is not without interest. Harper & Brothers was not eager to publish this volume, but they prepared a large edition, the size of which is unknown. Condition: Slight bump ant front edge with the Greenwood reference tipped in. Jacket chipped at edges with some loss to spine ends. Jacket first state. Slight bump ant front edge with the Greenwood reference tipped in. Jacket professionally restored by Octavaye Studios. A very good to fine copy with a very good but scarce jacket.

Square octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xv [xvi] 17-575 [576: blank] [577-578: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, 220 illustrations by Dan Beard, original pictorial olive-green cloth, front panel stamped in black, blue-gray, and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, blue-gray endpapers with floral pattern printed in gold. First edition. Second state without small S-like ornament between "THE" and "KING" in caption on page [59]. The U.S. edition was to have been published 10 December 1889, but copies were apparently released earlier (DLC deposit copy recorded 5 December 1889). The Chatto & Windus edition was published 6 December 1889 as per the author's instructions. Twain's "best and most influential work of SF ." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1247. "The classic 'dark' epoch collision projected backward in time . the first (and still among the best) of all the 'new maps of hell.'" - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, pp. 39-40. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-45; (1987) 1-25; (1995) 1-25; and (2004) II-1152. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-152. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2210. Clareson, Science-Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 757. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 190-91. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 215. Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900, p. 187. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 80. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 428-32. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 196. Reginald 14357. BAL 3429. Wright (III) 1090. Hint of rubbing to cloth at lower spine end and corner tips, a bright, nearly fine copy of this attractive book. A superior copy with tight inner hinges (today uncommon thus). (#138056).

First edition: title page with author's name written in roman, letters missing from p 91, line 4, and 13 lines on p 101. Decorations, advertisements for "Mark Twain's Scrapbooks"on the verso of the last leaf. 140, [ii] pp. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Includes the following: "Punch, Brother, Punch;" "Speech on the Weather.;" "Rogers;" "Map of Paris (with Map);" "Random Notes of an Idle Excursion;" "Speech at a Dinner of the Knights of St. Patrick;" "An Encounter with an Interviewer;" "The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence, etc.;" "The Canvasser's Tale.". BAL 3378 Green cloth stamped in black and gilt, terminal paste-down illustration of the scrap book as in BAL binding 1 for cloth binding. Extremities frayed, hinges starting internally, missing free endpapers, signed George Kirby Holmes July 20 '79 on flyleaf Decorations, advertisements for "Mark Twain's Scrapbooks"on the verso of the last leaf. 140, [ii] pp. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo First edition: title page with author's name written in roman, letters missing from p 91, line 4, and 13 lines on p 101.

8vo. 37 vols. (155 x 225 mm). With more than 100 plates and portraits (etched and intaglio). Original full navy blue cloth with gilt-stamped covers and spines; top edge gilt. Without the dust jackets. Rare and handsome set of this famous American writer's works, also containing his biography, letters, and his own autobiography. The third uniform edition named after one of Mark Twain's residences: Stormfield, in Redding, Connecticut, was home to Samuel Clemens from June 1908 until his death in April 1910. Volume 22 is titled "In Defense of Harriet Shelley" (retitled from "Literary Essays"). This is number 164 of 1024 numbered copies. - Minor rubbing to spines, gilt edges partially shaved, spine of vol. 17 with faint scratch mark. Minor worming to endpapers of nine vols., somewhat stronger to vol. 3 and partially affecting the inner margin of the first 10 and last 5 leaves. In all very appealingly preserved.

1/2 Leather. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition; Second Printing. A most attractive, unrestored first edition/second state copy, in the scarce original publisher's 1/2 Morocco leather binding with gilded pages and peach end papers in just about near fine condition, little staining from binder's glue. Without the Non-Twain sketch "Hospital Days". BAL 3364; Twain's sixty-three often outrageous sketches, composed between 1863 and 1875. From a piece about the difficulty of getting a pocket watch repaired properly to thoughts on bureaucrats, courts of law, the profession of journalism, the claims of science, and the workings of government; 8vo.