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Published by Fawcett Publications, Greenwich, CT, 1962
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Text/NEW w/faint margin discoloration & the letter "M" to fEP. Softcover (Portrait of seated white-haired Twain dressed in white)/Good/sound w/edge rubs & creasing to front & back. Text blocks dyed red. Posthumous anthology of essays & short stories from Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), best known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). 240 pgs, edited by Pulitzer Prize winner, historian Bernard DeVoto (1897 - 1955), whose biography was written by Wallace Stegner. Contents are: 1, Letters from the Earth; 2, Papers from the Adams Family (7 chapters); 3, Letter to the Earth; 4, A Cat-Tale; 5, Cooper's Prose Style; 6, Official Report to the I.I.A.S.; 7, The Gorky Incident; 8, Simplified Spelling; 9, Something About Repentance; 10, From an English Notebook; 11, From the Manuscript of "A Tramp Abroad"; The French & the Comanches; 12, From an Unfinished Burlesque of Books on Etiquette; 13, The Damned Human Race (5 essays); and 14, The Great Dark, followed by Editorial & Biographical Notes. Strong copy w/tired softcover.
Published by Harper & Row 1962, 1962
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by New York: Harpers & Row Publishers, 1962
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Priority uncertain. No statement of edition. 'K-M' on verso. '0962' on front flap of dust jacket. Preface dated March, 1962. Near fine hardback in very good plus price-clipped dust jacket. Name of previous owner (2 inch by 3/8 inch) in upper fore-edge corner of front pastedown. Dust jacket has 1/2 inch chips to head and heel of spine; a 1/4 inch by 1/4 inch chip to lower edge of front panel at spine; 3 inch by 3/4 inch chip to upper edge of rear panel at fore-edge fold; and moderate, if not minor additional wear/shelf wear/ rubbing to rear panel, edges, corners and front folds of spine and fore-edge.
Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1962
Seller: Orpheus Books, Edmonds, WA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Early printing. Priority uncertain. Code L-M on CIP page. Black cloth. 303 pages. Fine in a very near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Fresh copy. Posthumous work from Mark Twain. Dark humor on life, religion, sin and death written after the deaths of his wife and a daughter. Originally slated for publication in 1939, the book was delayed by the objections of his daughter Clara. She relented in 1962. Stinging satire by a master.
Published by Harper & Row, USA, 1962
Seller: Keeper of the Page, Enumclaw, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good DJ. Revised Edition. Harper & Row 1962 Revised Edition Fine/Very Good DJ Published 1959. Printed 1962. later printing. Twain, Mark; DeVoto, Bernard (editor); Smith, Henry Nash (Preface). Black cloth with giled spine lettering and silver decorations on front. note penned inside cover dated "April 16, 1963". 303 pages with bibliographical notes. Light wear and mended tears to bright glossy clipped dust jacket. HEAVY ITEM. No Exp.
Published by New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1962
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Priority uncertain. No statement of edition. 'K-M' on verso. '0962' on front flap of dust jacket. Preface dated March, 1962. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine dust jacket ($5.95). Book is faded along 1/8 inch of bottom edge of covers. Dust jacket has a 3/8 inch closed tear to bottom edge of front panel near fore-edge corner; a 3/4 inch closed tear to top edge of front panel at spine-fold; wear to 1/4 inch of head and heel of spine; a a 1/2 inch closed tear and associated 1.25 inch hairline crease to top edge of rear panel and minor, if not trivial shelf wear/rubbing to panels, corners, edges, fore-edge folds, and extremities.