Mark Twain Illustrated Wood Engravings (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Designed & Illustrated w/ 49 new wood engravings by Barry Moser (illustrator). 1st Edition. META-CLASSIC: NEW First Edition (Orig. 1985) Stated First Printing (1985): NEW (but neatly price-clipped) handsomely-designed-&-illustrated mylar-protected jacket, NEW silk-finish linen-over-boards cover w/ titles ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, BEAUTIFUL unblemished luminous-green card-stock front & back end-papers, PRISTINE interior SPLENDIDLY typeset in Monotype-Centaur & Arrighi on SUPERB unblemished archival paper * 6.96" x 10.18" x 1.36", 1.34 kg, xxxii+424 (456) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Prepared to celebrate the centennial of the first publication of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in America in 1885, this handsome edition combines modern textual care & the artistry of Barry Moser. The text of Mark Twain's greatest novel has been lovingly & carefully restored from manuscript & other sources by editors working at The Bancroft Library at Berkeley. Every effort has been made to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, & punctuation. An entire chapter-length episode, omitted in most editions, is included in full. This Pennyroyal-California edition is made available by photo-lithography from the Pennyroyal-Press letterpress limited edition printed by Harold McGrath at the Hampshire Typothetae in West Hatfield, Massachusetts. Typesetting in Monotype-Centaur & Arrighi by Mackenzie-Harris in San Francisco combines w/the distinguished design & 49 new wood engravings by Barry Moser to offer the reader a great novel in a superlative new form. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) was born in Missouri in 1835. He won his first fame from newspaper sketches written in Nevada & California in the 1860s. His wild humor, his intelligence, his ready wit, his gift for deflating pretensions, his talent for spinning tall tales, & his outright genius for finding the right word soon endeared him to a wide public. "Adventures of Huckleberry Fiinn", set in the Mississippi River valley of the author's childhood, was published in 1885 & became a worldwide classic. By the time of Mark Twain's death in 1910, he had become as much of a world-renowned figure as his fictional creations. Americans have continued to have a special affection for him. As Thomas A. Edison said, "An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain." * HIGHEST PRAISE: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn". There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." -Ernest Hemingway. "We come to see Huck . . . as one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction; not unworthy to take a place w/ Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet, & other great discoveries that man has made about himself." -T.S. Eliot. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Brown wrappers over card with cover wood engraving printed in green, 8vo., (64) pages, fifteen wood engravings by Alan James Robinson. One of 325 numbered copies printed from Centaur and Arrighi types on T. H. Saunders mouldmade paper by Wild Carrot Letterpress, with the wood engravings printed by Harold McGrath. Signed by Robinson. A fine copy. Signed by Artist.