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3 TWAIN, Mark [Samuel Clemens]. Auto- graphed Postcard Signed (S.L. Clemens). A small card, approximately 3" x 5" with the author's engraved monogram in red. Paper clip shadow on the left side, as well as a modest paper remnant on the verso where the card was tipped into a scrapbook, just touching the last letter in his signature, else very good. To the author's publisher, using both sides of the card. In full: "Wednesday. My Dear Osgood All right shall expect you Friday [word scratched out]. Would have written you sooner, but one of the children has been lying very close to the grave ever since New Years' night, & was not declared out of danger till yesterday evening. Truly Yours, S.L. Clemens." Undated but circa A little better content than most of Clemens's notes, as the theme of his children's mortality played such an important role in his life. # $4,250 TWAIN, Mark. Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance. New York: Sheldon & Company (1871). First edition, first issue terracotta cloth, first state of the title page without advertisement on verso. Also issued in wrappers, no priority. Faint, faded remnants of a contemporary owner name, slight nicking to the extremities of the thin spine, a very good plus copy. # $600 TWAIN, Mark. Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance. New York: Sheldon & Company (1871). First edition, second issue. Teracotta cloth. Lacks both free endpapers, tiny owner's name on title page, spotting to the boards, slight loss at the spine ends, a marginally presentable, fair only copy. # $45

4 TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. CLEMENS). The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrim's Progress. Melbourne: George Robertson First Australian edition, cloth issue. Green cloth lettered in gilt, gilt vignette on the front board, ruled and decorated on the rear board in blind. (19), , (1)pp. A small owner name on the front fly, front hinge tender, a bit of foxing, some scattered light stains on the front board, and some rubbing, an about very good copy of an uncommon edition. # $850 TWAIN, Mark. Roughing It. Hartford: American Publishing Company First edition. Illustrated. Near fine with some age-toning to the text block and a stamp on the title page, rebound in buckram, with previous owner's name on the spine and original decorations tipped to the front pastedown. # $400 TWAIN, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day. Hartford: American Publishing Company First edition, later state. Illustrated. Poor copy, with erosion around the extremities and a separation of the rear board from the spine and textblock. # $100

5 TWAIN, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for People of all Ages. Boston: James R. Osgood First American edition, first issue with Franklin Press imprint. Publisher's deluxe binding of half-calf and marbled papercovered boards. The paper on the edges of the boards is a bit worn, and some rubbing to the extremities, as almost always seems the case, else a nice, tight, very good or better copy, with the spine gilt easily readable. On a lark a prince and a pauper change stations in life, allowing Twain to critique various legal and moral injustices. A nice copy of a classic children's tale, scarce in the deluxe binding. BAL # $4,000 TWAIN, Mark. The Stolen White Ele- phant, etc.. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company First American edition. Original tan pictorial cloth. Owner's name on front fly, spine cocked, front hinge cracked, joints and spine ends are frayed, corners bumped, cloth a bit wrinkled and cracked on front pastedown, thus fair only. # $100 (TWAIN, Mark aka Samuel L. Cle-mens). Edward W. Kemble. "Priapic plate", illustration from p. 283 of Huckleberry Finn ["Who do you reckon it is?"]. (New York: Charles L. Webster & Company 1884). Single sheet. 6.25" x 8.5". One of 100 copies of this infamous suppressed illustration from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Tape residue on the verso of the left margin, near fine, housed in an old Parke-Bernet Galleries folder with their original description affixed. According to McBride (p. 103), Merle Johnson made copies of this "priapic plate" from an original leaf from an unbound copy found in the Willard S. Morse collection. The gentleman in Kemble's original illustration was quite innocent, but during production ribald mischief intervened. The defacement was detected at an early stage and no copies of the book had the altered engraving at the time of publication, although we know of two institutions have Salesman's Prospectus advance excerpts with the "priapic" illustration bound in. # $750

6 (WHITMAN, Walt). TRAUBEL, Horace, edited by. Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman, May 31, Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams. Philadelphia: David McKay First edition. Front hinge slightly tender and a couple of splash marks on the front board, a sound, very good copy. A tribute to Whitman on his seventieth birthday, containing an "Autobiographic Note & Response" by Whitman, this anthology also includes a poem by Ernest Rhys, Horace Traubel's essay "Recorders Ages Hence," and letters or addresses by Mark Twain, Richard Watson Gilder, Julian Hawthorne, Hamlin Garland, William Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, John Burroughs, Richard Bucke, Edmund Clarence Stedman, William Dean Howells, John G. Whittier, and many others. Boldly Signed by Whitman on the front fly: "Walt Whitman, Dec: 16 '89." Scarce. # $4,000 TWAIN, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. London: W. Nicholson & Sons [circa 1890]. Reprint. Blue decorated cloth. Owner's name stamped on endpapers, spine ends and corners lightly worn, piece on front pastedown ripped off, thus good only. # $50 TWAIN, Mark. The American Claimant. New York: Charles L. Webster First edition. Greygreen cloth variant (no priority). Bookplate neatly removed from front fly, with light, tidy paper remnant, and a little rubbing to the extremities of the boards, a nice, near fine copy. BAL # $300

7 TWAIN, Mark. The American Claimant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co First edition. Pictorial green cloth with black and gilt. Decorative bookplate on front pastedown, owner's name on front fly, front hinge cracked, edges lightly worn, else very good. # $85 TWAIN, Mark (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorn Clemens). Mark Twain s Scrap Book. New York: Daniel Slote and Co. (1892). Reprint. A large quarto. Very good with only light rubbing and soiling to the red, elaborately decorated boards. This copy unused with clean pages. # $300 LANDON, Melville D. (Eli Perkins). American Lecturers and Humorists. Akron, Ohio/New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company(The Werner Company 1893). Red cloth with paper illustration of Mark Twain on the front board. Black letters on spine and front board. Owner's name and address on front pastedown, pages deeply age-toned, spine and edges are faded, thus very good minus. Biographies, Reminiscences and Lectures of Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, Robert Burdette, George W. Peck, Nasby, Josh Billings, Bill Nye, Bret Harte, Eli Perkins and others. # $40 TWAIN, Mark. The 1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company First edition. A poor copy, with front endpaper detached, old tape repair to front hinge, and rear hinge cracking. Not for the squeamish. # $45

8 TWAIN, Mark. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. Hartford: American Publishing Company First edition, BAL's first state. Small owner name, very slight bumping to the corners, and rubbing at the extremities, a near fine, tight copy. One of Twain's best known tales, of look-alike changelings, murder, and an early use of fingerprint evidence by the eponymous lawyer-turned-detective. Filmed for television in 1984 with Ken Howard as Wilson. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, Johnson Highspot of American Literature. # $800 TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens). Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company First trade edition, with single-location imprint. Rebound in plain red cloth with a typed label on the spine. Illustrated by Dan Beard, A.B. Frost, B.W. Clinedinst and others. Front fly, frontispiece and title page with faint waterstains in outer margins, cloth lightly worn, top corner on front fly creased, very good thus. Mark Twain's last travel book. BAL # $100 CLEMENS, Will M. A Ken of Kipling: Being A Biographical Sketch of Rudyard Kipling, With An Appreciation And Some Anecdotes. New York: New Amsterdam Book Company First edition. Good with a faded spine, corners bumped, soiling on the boards, an ink stamp on the front pastedown and title page. Frontispiece of Kipling, a list of Kipling's books at the rear. Includes an interview with Mark Twain. # $30 TWAIN, Mark. A Double Barrelled Detective Story. New York: Harper & Brothers First edition. Red cloth decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. Green and white pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock. Good only with spine cocked, owner's name on front pastedown, spine ends frayed, small stain to foredge affecting verso of title page and next few pages. # $160

9 (Anthology) TAYLOR, Charles M., edited by. The Literary Guillotine. New York: John Lane (1903). First edition. Fine without dustwrapper. Contributors include Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Booth Tarkington and Henry James. # $65 TWAIN, Mark. Extracts from Adam's Diary. New York: Harper & Brothers Reprint. Front free endpaper clipped else fine in a fine tissue wrapper (not shown in illustration). # $100 TWAIN, Mark. Extracts From Adam's Diary. New York: Harper and Brothers Reprint. Illustrated by F. Strothmann. Very good with owner's initials and date on second front fly, cloth cover soiled. # $30 TWAIN, Mark. Editorial Wild Oats. New York: Harper & Brothers First edition. Red cloth with illustration of a white cat on the front board. Owner's names on front pastedown and front fly, last few pages creased, spine ends chipped, spine darkened, thus good only. # $75

10 TWAIN, Mark. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories. New York: Harper and Brothers First thus edition. Very good with spine lightly faded, cloth cover lightly soiled. # $60 TWAIN, Mark. Christian Science with Notes Containing Corrections to Date. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers First thus edition. Mixed state. Very good with gutter before title page cracked, water stain on foredge on rear cover. # $40 TWAIN, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. New York: Harper and Brothers First edition. Illustrated by Albert Levering. Water stain on bottom cover edges and page edges, endpapers lightly foxed, thus good only, lacking the dustwrapper. # $35 TWAIN, Mark. Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography. New York: Harper & Brothers First edition. First state without the "Publisher's note". Green ribbed cloth with gilt letters on front board and spine. Top edge gilt. Owner's name on front pastedown, a small attractive bookstore sticker on front fly, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, else very good. Lovely copy. # $200

11 (Photography) HENDERSON, Archibald with photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Mark Twain. New York: Frederick A. Stokes (1910). First American edition. Bookplate and ownership signature of the American poet, journalist, and critic Richard Eugene Burton. Fine. Includes numerous photographs by Coburn, including two in color tipped to stiff card pages. Coburn was an early enthusiast of color photography. # $375 TWAIN, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. New York: Harper Brothers (1911). Early reprint. Very good minus in a very good dustwrapper with some wear to the spinal extremities. Two volumes in one. # $50 TWAIN, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. New York: Harper Brothers (1911). Early reprint. Near fine, in a good, moderately worn dustwrapper with one large chip. # $40

12 (Science-Fiction) Das lustige Gespensterbuch [The Funny Ghost Book]. München and Leipzig: Georg Müller First edition. Foreword by Gustav Meyrink. Illustrated by Kurt Szafranski. Full vellum, illustrated. Stout octavo. 359, [8]pp. Boards slightly splayed, and slightly foxed, near fine. One of 100 numbered copies. Anthology of ghost stories by Meyrink, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, E.T.A. Hoffman, Heinrich Heine, Oscar Wilde, Heinrich Seidel, Ludwig Tieck, Helene Böhlau, Oscar A.H. Schmitz, and others. Wonderfully illustrated by Szafranski, a college friend of Kurt Tucholsky, who eventually moved to the U.S. and worked for Life Magazine. # $850 TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. New York: Harper and Brothers (1917). Later printing. Pictorial paper label pasted on front board. Illustrated by Worth Brehm. Good only with rear board stained, corners bumped. # $22 PHELPS, William Lyon. Essays on Books. New York: The Macmillan Company Later printing. 319pp. Very good with bumped corners. Essays include topics such as "Jane Austen," "Notes on Mark Twain," and "Dickens." # $10

13 TWAIN, Mark. Tom Sawyer Abroad. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1924). Reprint. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a lightly sunned spine, very light wear at the top of the spine, Gretter dustwrapper illustration. # $50 TWAIN, Mark. Tom Sawyer Detective and Other Stories. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1924). Reprint. Near fine in a near fine dustwrapper, Gretter illustration. # $50 TWAIN, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Harper & Brothers Reprint. Illustrated by Henry Pitz. Small quarto. Illustrated paper label on front board rubbed, wear to the spine ends and toned pages very good. # $20 TWAIN, Mark. The Complete Works of Mark Twain: In Defense of Harriet Shelley, Volume XVI. New York: Harper and Brothers (1925). Reprint. Very good plus with a slight bump to the head of the spine and some rubbing to the corners. # $20

14 [TWAIN, Mark]. Conversation as It Was by the Social Fire-Side in the Time of the Tudors (from Ye diary of ye Cupbearer to Her Majestie Queen Elizabeth). : Ye Puritan Presse circa Number 239 of 300 copies printed for subscribers. Very good in string tied wrappers with wear along the edges and spine and some staining on the front cover. Eighteen pages. # $75 COURNOS, John. A Modern Plutarch: Being an Account of Some Great Lives in the Nineteenth Century, Together with Some Comparisons Between the Latin and the Anglo- Saxon Genius. London: Thornton Butterworth First edition. Fine in near, fine, uniformly age-toned dustwrapper. Biographical essays on important people, paired together, in the manner of Plutarch. Essays pair Melville with Rimbaud and Doughty; George Sand with George Eliot; Gauguin with Thoreau; Twain with Anatole France; John Brown with Garibaldi; Robert E. Lee with Bolivar; and others. # $125 (TWAIN, Mark). Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens: Notes on His Life and Works. New York: Harper & Brothers Stapled wrappers. Paper label laid on front panel. Spine faded, edges of yapped wrappers have short tears, else very good. A laid in portrait of Mark Twain by Frank A. Nankivell, # $45

15 Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales. New York: Alfred A. Knopf New Pocket Book edition. Preface by Carl Van Vechten with contributions by Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Booth Tarkington, Honore de Balzac (translated from the French by Carl Van Vechten), among others. Fine in a poor dustwrapper with a torn spine, the front flap laid in and a separated front panel. # $30 (Photoplay) (TWAIN, Mark). The Movie Story of Tom Sawyer with Jackie Coogan Pictures. Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co. (1931). First edition. Color photographic papercovered boards. Illustrated with color stills from the Slightly rubbed and soiled, near fine. A nicer than usual copy. # $45 DeVOTO, Bernard. Mark Twain's Amer- ica. Boston: Little, Brown and America Reprint. Very good with a little fading to the spine and the very edges of the boards; no dustwrapper. # $20

16 TWAIN, Mark. Slovenly Peter [Der Struwwelpeter]. New York: for the members of The Limited Editions Club by The Marchbanks Press First edition. Quarto pictorial cloth protected by a felt covered folder in a matching felt covered slipcase. Translated into English by Twain, jingles from the original German of Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann. Illustrated by Dr. Hoffman, adapted from the rare first edition by Fritz Kredel. Bottom corner on front fly torn off and stuck to inside front board (seems to be a binding error), top page edges unopened, else near fine in a double slipcase of which are very good with spines a bit faded and spine ends worn. # $300 TWAIN, Mark. The Prince and The Pauper. Chicago: John C. Winston (1937). Later. Red cloth with pictorial label pasted on front board. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. Owner name on preliminary page, corners bumped, else very good. # $15 DeVOTO, Bernard. Mark Twain at Work. Cambridge: Harvard University First edition. Offsetting to the front endpaper else in a very good dustwrapper. # $100 TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1946). Reprint. Near fine with wear to the spine ends in a very good dustwrapper with chips and tears to the extremities. Illustrated by Donald McKay. # $10

17 TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens). Illustrated by Louis Slobokin. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing (1946). Reprint. Illustrated by Louis Slobokin. Introduction by May Lamberton Becker. Fine in price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with a small hole on the spine, and some modest rubbing. From the "Rainbow Classic" series. An attractive and presentable copy. # $20 (Anthology) VAN GELDER, Robert and Dorothy. American Legend: A Treasury of Our Country's Yesterdays. New York: D. Appleton-Century (1946). First edition. Fine in near fine, slightly spine-tanned dustwrapper with light chipping to the spine. Contributors include Esther Forbes, Eudora Welty, George W. Cable, Herman Melville, Ellen Glasgow, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Jessamyn West, John W. Thomson, Jr., Conrad Richter, Hamlin Garland, Clarence Day, O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, and James Thurber. # $45 TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Chicago: Donohue no date. Reprint. Owner inscription on front pastedown else very in in very good dustwrapper with shallow tears and chips out of the spine. From The Golden Days Series. # $20 MACK, Effie Mona. Mark Twain in Nevada. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons First edition. Good in boards as issued with cracked hinge, soiling, and chip/tear to top of spine. # $20

18 TWAIN, Mark (Edited by Dixon Wec-ter). The Love Letters of Mark Twain. New York: Harper & Brothers First edition. Very good with offsetting on pages , owner's name on front fly and pastedown in a very good tanned dustwrapper with short tears along the edges. # $30 ANDREWS, Kenneth R. Nook Farm: Mark Twain's Hartford Circle. Cambridge: Harvard University Press First edition. Illustrated with sepia-toned photographs. Very good with spine and board edges lightly faded, lacking the dustwrapper. # $15 CANBY, Henry Seidel. Turn West, Turn East: Mark Twain and Henry James. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Owner's name on front pastedown, spine faded, abrasion in midspine, else very good, lacking the dustwrapper. # $12 ST. CLAIR, Robert. (Mark Twain). Mark Twain's A Double Barrelled Detective Story: A Mystery-Comedy in Three Acts. Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company (1954). First edition. Printed wrappers. Some modest foxing on the first and last few pages, else near fine. An adaptation of the Twain novel. # $85

19 STONG, Phil. Mississippi Pilot: With Mark Twain On The Great River. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company First edition. Small wormholes on rear joint, else very good in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper, extremities lightly worn. # $10 (Anthology) FALK, Robert P. American Literature in Parody. New York: Twayne Publishers (1955). First edition. Pen notation on the front fly, else fine in near fine, spine faded dustwrapper with some light wear to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels. Contributors include Mark Twain, Frank Sullivan, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, James Russell Lowell, William James, Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells, Max Beerbohm, Henry David Thoreau, C.L. Edson, Robert Benchley, Clifton Fadiman, E.B. White, and James Thurber. # $30 TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (1958). Later edition. Edited with an introduction and notes by Henry Nash Smith. Very good in soiled wrappers. # $10

20 MIERS, Earl Schenck, introduction and notes by. In Behalf of Parents: A selection to comfort and counsel the Beat Generation, from the letters and speeches of Richard Lingard, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain and Theodore Roosevelt. Newark, DE: Curtis Paper First edition. 32pp. Very good or better in wrappers slightly browned along the spine fold. Printed with woodcuts by Jacob Landau. The sixth publication in a series of Americana by the Curtis Paper Company. # $10 JACKSON, Shirley. Special Delivery A useful book for brand new mothers in which Shirley Jackson as chief resident provides a sane and sage approach to the hilarious and homey situations which accompany the advent of motherhood aided by a well-tried staff of specialist including Mark Twain... With some practical and not-too-solemn advice by Edmund N. Joyner III, M.D.. Boston: Little, Brown First edition. Fine in slightly rubbed and soiled, else near fine dustwrapper. # $125 TWAIN, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. (New York): The New American Library (1961). First edition. Afterword by Leonard Kriegel. Near fine in lightly soiled wrappers. # $10

21 GIRODIAS, Maurice (editor). The New Olympia: A Review Published in Paris by the Olympia Press: Number Three. France: Girodias First edition. Very good in wrappers, a paperback. Contains Mark Twain, Kaja, Henry Miller, Terry Southern and more. Text clean. Illustrated in black and white photos and drawings. Corners rubbed. Small tears on spine ends. # $25 LEARY, Lewis, edited by. A Casebook on Mark Twain's Wound. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell (1962). First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Light wear to wrappers, else near fine. # $10 The Booklover's Answer: #4, March-April, Woodstock, New York: The Answer First edition. Number four only. Stapled wrappers. 24pp. Tanned spine, else near fine. Bibliographia: Mark Twain. # $24 METZDORF, Robert F., edited by. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Volume Fifty-Eight, Number 1, First Quarter, January-March, Portland, Maine: The Bibliographical Society of America First edition. Octavo. Near fine in wrappers with minor pen notation on front cover near the spine corner. Containing: "William Somervile's 'The Chace,' 1735" by J. D. Fleeman and "Mark Twain and the 'Golden Era'" by Lawrence E. Mobley, Bibliographical Notes, News and Notes, Book Reviews. # $30

22 NEIDER, Charles. The Complete Novels of Mark Twain. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc Reprint. Two volume set in box. Fine in fine dustwrappers with a miniscule tear on one spine and a crease on one of the flaps. Slipcase is near fine with some wear around the corners. All eleven of Mark Twain's novels collected in this set. # $30 (TWAIN, Mark) Edited by A. Grove Day. Mark Twain's Letters From Hawaii. New York: Appleton-Century (1966). First edition. Missprinted with pages missing and pages included twice. Owner's name on front paste-down, spine lightly tanned, else very good, lacking the dustwrapper. # $10 KAPLAN, Justin. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. New York: Simon and Schuster (1966). First edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper with spine and edges tanned. # $20 TWAIN, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. New York: Heritage Press (1966). Reprint. With an introduction by Edward Wagenknecht, illustrated by David Knight. Fine without a dustwrapper, housed in a near fine slipcase. # $40

23 CLARK, Byron H. "In Mark Twain All American Writing Begins"... Hemingway: The Minds of Men: Volume III. Dayton, Ohio: Mead (1967). First edition. Limited edition book number 1767 embossed on rear fly. Volume three only. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a light water stain on front panel and small tear on the top edge. Illustrated with black and white photographs. # $15 (Baseball) EINSTEIN, Charles. The Third Fireside Book of Baseball. New York: Simon & Schuster (1968). Introduction by Stan Musial. Bookplate front fly, a little fading to the edges of the papercovered boards else about fine in very good dustwrapper with a small chip on the front panel, several small tears and some barely visible dampstaining on the rear panel. A splendid collection of baseball essays with contributions by Roger Angell, Jimmy Breslin, Bruce Catton, James T. Farrell, William Price Fox, Frank Graham, Zane Grey, W. C. Heinz, John and Ring Lardner, Tom Meany, Ogden Nash, Mark Twain, John Updike and many others. Shannon 100. # $80 McDERMOTT, John Francis, edited by. Before Mark Twain: A Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press (1968). First edition. Owner's embossed stamp on preliminary pages, white cloth spine foxed, else very good in a very good dustwrapper with light wear to the extremities. # $10

24 TWAIN, Mark. The War Prayer with Drawings by John Groth. New York: St. Crispin/Harper & Row First separate edition. Owner signature, otherwise fine in near fine dustwrapper with usual light soiling. Original drawing and inscription by illustrator John Groth. # $275 GEISMAR, Maxwell. Mark Twain: An American Prophet. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Small bookstore sticker on front fly, else fine in a near fine dustwrapper with spine faded. # $20 TWAIN, Mark. Epigrams. (Massachusetts): Castalia Press First edition thus. Edited by Timothy Morgan. One of thirty copies, this is unnumbered. Unprinted green pebbled faux leather. Marbled endpapers. Fine. Epigrams taken from Puddn'head Wilson. # $40 (Science-Fiction) VONNEGUT, Jr., Kurt et al. (edited by Jack C. Wolf & Gregory Fitzgerald). Past, Present, & Future Perfect. Greenwich, Ill.: Fawcett World Library First printing. Mass market paperback. Pages lightly agetoned, light wear to wrappers, else very good. Other stories done by: Arthur C. Clarke, Graham Greene, Ray Bradbury, B.F. Skinner, Mark Twain, Francis Bacon, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and more. # $20

25 KAPLAN, Justin. Mark Twain and His World. New York: Simon and Schuster (1974). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the rear flap. # $40 TWAIN, Mark. Mark Twain in Hartford. (Hartford: Mark Twain Memorial 1974). Third edition. Fine in stapled wrappers with a minor crease on the front wrapper. # $18 WALKER, Franklin. Irreverent Pilgrims, Melville, Browne, and Mark Twain in the Holy Land. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press (1974). First edition. Fine with an ink notation on the front endpaper and another on the copyright page, in a near fine, price clipped, dustwrapper with very light wear at the top of the spine. # $30 GEISMAR, Maxwell (Editor). The Higher Animals: A Mark Twain Bestiary. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. # $12 SEELYE, John. Mark Twain in the Movies: A Meditation with Pictures. New York: Viking Press (1977). First edition. Oblong papercovered boards with black cloth spine. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper with a chip on top edge and short tears along the edges. # $20

26 TWAIN, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. New York: Harper & Row (1977). Book Club edition. Illustrated by Mark Twain. Abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Neider. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with modest wear. # $11 TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Grolier, Inc. (1978). Later edition. With a critical and biographical profile of the author by James M. Cox. Fine copy. From the "World's Great Classics" series. # $18 SLOANE, David E.E. Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press (1979). First edition. Fine in a very good dustwrapper. # $45 The Fifth Bedside Book of Great Detective Stories. London: Arthur Baker Limited (1981). First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Includes work by John Dickson Carr, Jonathan Gash, Michael Gilbert, Julian Symons, Mark Twain, others. # $14

27 HARRIS, Susan K. Mark Twain's Escape From Time: A Study of Patterns and Images. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press First edition. Owner's name on front pastedown, light soiling, else very good or better. # $10 FAIR, Anthony, Consulting Editor. American Book Collector: Volume 5, Number 4, New Series, July/August New York: The Moretus Press First edition. 64pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Inside: Mark Twain's Suppressed Chapter. # $15 TWAIN, Mark (Edited by Charles Neider). The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain. Toronto: Bantam Books (1983). Later printing. Mass market paperback. Very good with pages age-toned, spine crease. # $10 FAIR, Anthony. American Book Collector New Series Volume 5 Numbers 1, 3, 4, 6. New York: Moretus Press (1984). First edition. Four volumes. A little age toning else fine in pictorial wrappers. Includes Joseph Sabin & American Books, Early Persecutions of the Press, Mark Twain's Suppressed Chapter, Finding Melville in a Trunk. # $55

28 TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Berkeley: University of Califorinia Press (1985). First thus. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Foreword by Henry Nash Smith. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some minor edgewear. # $45 TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company First edition thus. Edited with an introduction by Charles Neider. Remainder spray on bottom page fine edges, owner's name on pastedown, else very good, lacking the dustwrapper. Includes the omitted, long, brilliant raft chapter, with the final, Tom Sawyer section, abridged. # $10 BRIDGMAN, Richard. Traveling in Mark Twain. Berkeley: University of California Press (1987). First edition. Owner's name on front pastedown, else fine, lacking the dustwrapper. # $15 (Art) MENDOZA, George. Norman Rockwell's Love and Remembrance: The Art of Norman Rockwell Complemented by the Works of Russell Baker, Mark Twain, Ogden Nash, James Thurber, Willa Cather, Carl Sandburg, and Many Others. New York: Harrison House (1987). Second edition. Folio. 211pp. Small nick on top front board edge, else near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with small nicks to spine ends. # $50

29 MENG, Wang (editor). Chinese Liter- ature: Fiction Poetry Art: Autumn Beijing China: China International Book Trading First edition. Wrappers. 200pp. Color illustrations. Text in English, index in Chinese. Very good with tape repairs to the rear cover. Contributors include Wang Meng; Ba Jin; Bi Ye; Wang Dapeng; a piece titled "Mark Twain in China" by Liu Haiming; and more. # $15 TWAIN, Mark. Legend of Sagenfeld. Sydney, Australia: P.I.C. (1987). First edition. Illustrated by George Molnar. Fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. # $16 (Photography) TICE, George. Home- towns: An American Pilgrimage. James Dean's Fairmount, Indiana; Ronald Reagan's Dixon, Illinois; Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri. Boston: New York Graphic Society (1988). First edition. Oblong folio. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Laid into the book is a card from the publisher Inscribed by Tice to someone who is mentioned in the acknowledgements of the book: "Dear, 'Hometown' is a much finer production because of your help. Thanks, George A. Tice." # $300 TWAIN, Mark. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories. Philadelphia: Running Press First edition in this form. 64mo. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. # $15

30 LAUBER, John. The Inventions of Mark Twain. New York: Hill and Wang (1990). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $12 STEINBRINK, Jeffrey. Getting to Be Mark Twain. Berkeley: University of California Press (1991). First edition. Illustrated. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $25 Mark Twain's Hartford Connections: The Inaugural Exhibition of the Mark Twain Memorial Program at Trinity College. (Connecticut): Trinity College First edition. Stapled wrappers. 20pp. Foredges flared, else very good. Exhibition held October 7, 1991 through January 31, 1992 in The Watkinson Library. # $15 HARRIS, Susan K. Mark Twain's Escape From Time, A Study of Patterns and Images. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. # $20

31 TWAIN, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. New York: Book of the Month Club (1992). Reissue. Fine in very good dustwrapper with wear to the corners and spine edges. # $10 TWAIN, Mark. Pudd'nhead Wilson. New York: Book of the Month Club (1992). First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine dustwrapper. This edition prepared especially for the Book of the Month Club. # $14 TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. New York: Book-of-the-Month Club (1992). Reissue. Book club edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with light edgewear. # $10 WILLIS, Resa. Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and The Woman Who Almost Tamed Him. New York: Atheneum Publishers First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. # $18

32 FISHKIN, Shelley Fisher. Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African American Voices. New York: Oxford Press First edition. Owner's name stamped on endpapers, spine ends lightly bumped, else near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with light wear to the edges. # $20 WILLIAMS, George J., III. On the Road with Mark Twain in California and Nevada. Dayton, Nevada: Tree By the River Publishing (1993). First edition. Quarto wrappers. 136pp. Spine faded, else near fine. Advance review copy with publisher's letters laid in. # $20 TWAIN, Mark. Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. New York: Library of America First thus. Fine in fine slipcase in publisher's original shrinkwrap, an as new copy. Notes by Susan K. Harris # $15 (Mystery) HECK, Peter J. Death on the Mississippi: A Mark Twain Mystery. New York: Berkley Prime Crime (1995). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed and dated by the author. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. # $45

33 ARNOLD, Matthew (Mark Twain). General Grant. Ohio: Kent State University Press (1995). Second edition. Printed glossy wrappers. 58pp. Edited by John Y. Simon. With a Rejoinder by Mark Twain. Date stamped on half-title page, else fine. Advance review copy with publisher's letter laid in. # $10 Mark Twain: An American Voice to the World. Kennesaw, Georgia: Kennesaw State College First edition. Spiral-bound quarto wrappers. 65pp. Stamp on front wrap, else near fine. Exhibition catalogue for June 1 through August 15, Horace W. Sturgis Library. # $26 RASMUSSEN, R. Kent. Mark Twain A-Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Writings. New York: Oxford University Press (1996). First edition. Quarto. Trade paperback. Fine in pictorial wrappers. # $25 TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Random House (1996). Uncorrected proof. Small damp stain to the top edge and top extremities thus near fine in wrappers. # $20

34 TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Random House (1996). First edition thus, edited and presented as "the only comprehensive edition." Fine in a fine dustwrapper. # $30 TWAIN, Mark. The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories. New York: Oxford University Press (1996). First American edition. Part of the Oxford Mark Twain series. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. # $20 TWAIN, Mark. Tom Sawyer Abroad. New York: Oxford University Press First edition in this form. Very light bumps to the corners, remainder mark on the bottom edge, else fine in a fine dustwrapper. # $25 HOFFMAN, Andrew. Inventing Mark Twain. New York: William Morrow (1997). First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. # $22

35 (TWAIN, Mark). The Staff of Quill and Brush, Inc. Bibliography, First Edition and Price Guide (APG - Author's Price Guide Series). Dickerson, MD: Quill & Brush (current) edition. 75 page bibliography and price-guide. A thorough guide to identifying and collecting first editions, advance copies, limited editions, etc. The AUTHOR PRICE GUIDES (APGs) include a facsimile of the author's signature; a brief biographical sketch; an up-todate list of the author's first editions (American and British) with entries for limited and trade editions; number of copies printed (if available); how to identify the first edition; and estimated values. You can view the Instructions For Use, also included with your order, which shows a sample listing and complete instructions for identifying first editions of the author's works, at article_images/instructionsforuse.pdf The APGs are offered here AS PDF FILES. Once your order has been processed, your files will be delivered to you via (no shipping charges apply). # $56.50 Fine Books and Collections Volume 3 Number 1 January/February Eureka, California: OP Media First edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Articles Don Quixote at 400, Mark Twain. # $20

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