The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Twain, Mark
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Midland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
American Publishing Co., 1876. First edition. first issue. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition, first issue with half title and frontis illustraton on separate sheets. Rebound in modern calf in careful imitation of the original, including new salmon color endpapers. All blanks present, front and back. Pages tight and mostly clean, small area of scuffing and minor repairs to frontis. A very good copy.
Synopsis
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the town of St. Petersberg, based on the town of Hannibal, Missouri.
Reviews
On Jul 20 2012, TheRealPeterGC said:
This Book about a kid with a Extraordinary adventures.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Graver & Pen Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013233
- Title
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. first issue
- Publisher
- American Publishing Co.
- Date Published
- 1876
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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- Children & Juvenile Children’s Fiction & Literature
- Fiction & Literature Fiction by Region American Fiction
- Fiction & Literature Classic Literature
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- Fiction & Literature Individual Authors Mark Twain
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