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The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark Twain
by Twain, Mark; Neider, Charles: Editor
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 038501094X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385010948
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Twain, Mark. First Edition per no other printings noted. Edited and with an Introduction by Charles Neider. Drawings by Mark Twain. Hard cover in very good condition with red boards and tan spine cloth containing silver gilt lettering in red panels on spine; A;uthor's facsimile signature stamped in silver gilt on front board. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Side edges deckled. Overall light age toning to the papers. Dust jacket very good with only ghost of shelf wear; light age toning; not price clipped. * From the Editor's Note, ""The present volume contains all of Mark Twain's humorous sketches which the author saw fit to issue in book form, also a number published in such form by his literary executor, A.B. Paine. Mark Twain changed his mind about the worth of certain of these sketches and did not include them in later editions of his books. For this reason, the reader will here encounter sketches not to be found in the collected works. . . .""The present volume contains 136 sketches, thirty of them gathered from the five books of travel. The contents are arranged chronologically according to the years of first publication, and alphabetically within a given year whenever more than one item was published in that year. I have indicated the source of the sketches taken from the books of travel, and in such cases have given as the date of publication the date of the first edition of the particular book of travel,""
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002652
- Title
- The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark Twain
- Author
- Twain, Mark; Neider, Charles: Editor
- Illustrator
- Twain, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 038501094X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385010948
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Short stories, Mark Twain, Humor, Humorous Sketches and Tales
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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