To Mrs. Fairbanks
by Twain, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
£32.38£22.67
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About This Item
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Edited by Dixon Wecter. Blue buckram with gilt lettering to the spine; in the original dust jacket. Xxx, 286, pp., with 6 illustrations. Indexed. Text edge soiling. The dust jacket is good only with chipping along the top edges, a significant closed tear at the back fold, toned edges and soiled spine. From the Forward: "These hetherto unpbulished letters shed important light upon the development of Samuel Clemens, particularly during the years between his coming out of the West in 1867 and his settling in Hartford with wife and family in 1871. ...here presented with rather full annotation (to) aid future students of Mark Twain. ; 8vo .
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- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8550
- Title
- To Mrs. Fairbanks
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Huntington Library
- Place of Publication
- San Marino, CA
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Mark Twain, Mark Twain Early Life, Tom Sawyer
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies & Autobiographies; Literature & Criticism;
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Buckram
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
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