Tom Sawyer Abroad
by Mark Twain
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
£3,400.00£3,060.00
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Harper and Brothers, 1896. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8" by 5.5". None. A first edition, first impression of this very scarce Mark Twain novel. Only 1000 copies of this work were printed. A first edition, first impression. This work had a very small print run. In the publisher's original cloth binding. "Tom Sawyer Abroad" is Twain"s noted parody adventure tale, a pastiche of Jules Verne"s popular tales. It features Twain"s notable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as they travel to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon. Told from the perspective of Huck Finn, this work is regarded as the sequel to the Tom Sawyer series. A very bright copy of this novel internally. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light fading to the spine. Front hinge is slightly strained but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Plate ate page 155 is detached but present. Small loss to bottom corner of page 25. Light chips to the edge of this plate. Pages are bright. The occasional light spots and handling marks to pages. Good
Synopsis
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 737L20
- Title
- Tom Sawyer Abroad
- Author
- Mark Twain
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1896
- Size
- 8" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- Detective Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
About Rooke Books
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- First Edition
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