The Book Club of California, 1957. Hardcover. This is a limited edition (1 in 400 copies) of a selection of Mark Twain's letters to the Territorial Enterprise from 1855-1856. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and Frederick Anderson. Outer cover is has pale orange and blue floral print with title in.....
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 6" x 4.5" Twain's collection of nine sketches, beginning with the story of the jingle you can't get out of your head. Green cloth with blue endpapers, now in a protective mylar dust jacket. The first edition, first printing. On.....
Huntington Library, 1949. Hardcover. First edition. Very good in slightly chipped dust jacket.
New York: C. H. Webb, 1867. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing of Mark Twain's first book, in the original binding. Gilt stamped green front cover, blind stamp back cover. Unbroken 'this' on final page, unbroken 'life' on page 66, unbroken '21' on page 21. Wear to corners, edges.....
London: Printed for the National Anti-Vivisection Society, 1903. Soft cover. First separate edition in yellow paper covers of Twain's heart-wrenching story. Octavo, 16 leaves with sub-title, 9 pages of text, three pages of illustrations by W.T. Smedley, and an advertisement for the Anti-Vivisection Society, outlining their policy of amelioration rather.....
Boston: Mutual Book Company, 1900. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First American edition, first state, with 'fivc' for 'five' on page 16, in paper wrappers. Minor loss to spine. BAL 3465. Very Good.
Hartford, Conn. The American Publishing Company, 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. With the fame and fortune achieved with Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, beloved Mark Twain went on a tour of world. The volume contains Twain's recollections, observations and stories of his journey, with all of the wit and humor one.....
Hartford, Conn. American Publishing Company, 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first issue in publisher's cloth of Twain's humorous travelogue. Pp. xvii-xviii of the table of contents lack reference numbers; p.129 lacks an illustration; p.642 has the incorrect 'Chapter XLI'. Wear to covers, with loss of cloth to the corners.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First state, in publisher's speckled calf, professionally repaired. The tailpiece of Twain in flames is present on page 441, while the illustration to page 443 bears the caption "The St. Louis Hotel". BAL 3411. Publisher's speckled calf binding, professionally repaired.....
Privately Printed, 1920. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 6" x 9". Twain's humorous interview with himself, in a fitted folder and slipcase (labeled 'Mark Twain, (Yachtsman) Interviews Himself'). Self-wrappers, stapled. With a bookplate (Walter Chrysler) on the inner cover, ink inscription '1st edition', frontispiece portrait, Title page, limitation page 'Privately printed.....
New York: American News Company, 1874. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition, second state with Aetna Life Insurance Company ad on the back cover. With the original, fragile wrappers. Front cover and first page have come entirely free. Chipping and folds to the front and back cover, small piece of.....
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Second state of Twain's collection of sketches. The original brick-red paper wrappers are bound in a sturdy early hardcover binding, and so remain remarkably bright and clean. Collated with Johnson's 'Bibliography of Mark Twain'. Twain's name on the title.....
London: John Camden Hotten, 74, Picadilly, 1871. Hardcover. 6/25" x 4". Two collections of Mark Twain's short stories bound together, both published in London by John Camden Hotten. Both are undated but attributed to 1871. Screamers: A Gathering of Scraps of Humour, Delicious Bits, & Short Stories. BAL 3333. Includes.....
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1871. Soft cover. Paper wrappers with wear to spine and 1 cm tear to front cover. Contains two contributions by Twain: "The Late Benjamin Franklin", pp. 26-27 and "Advice to Little Girls", p. 47. The Bibliography of American Literature notes two printings, with no sequence.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Paper wrappers with loss to upper third of spine and lower corner of front cover. Contains Twain's "The Story of the good Little Boy who did not Prosper"
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing of Mark Twain's parody of adventure stories. 1896 on the title page, copyright page has four lines of text, no boxed ads. 410 pages. Two pages of ads in the back: Mark Twain's Joan of Arc;.....
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1899. Limited Edition. Hardcover. As one early seller promised of this set: "The original, autographed and strictly limited edition of the works of Samuel L. Clemens complete in twenty five volumes. This edition was published at enormous expense, printed on hand made paper water marked. Each.....
Buffalo: Underhill and Nichols, 1893. Soft cover. Paper covers, fifth printing as described in BAL 3437, copyright notice in two lines, with page 226 imprinted 'Advertisements'. Slight loss to head and tail of spine and darkening of covers. Contains the first appearance of 'Extracts from Adam's Diary'. Very Good. $225.....
Honolulu: Thomas Nickerson, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Previously uncollected "Letters" from the series that Twain wrote when he convinced his employers at the Sacramento Union to send him to Hawaii, printed in an edition of 1,000. BAL 3561. A roughly half inch loss to head of spine of original glassine.....
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1940. Hardcover. Stated first edition in unclipped dust jacket, number 964 of 1,795. Some darkening of edges of pages, loss to head of spine of jacket. Top edge dyed blue. Collects for the first time sketches written by Twain for the San Francisco "Alta California".....