A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur
by Mark Twain
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, London, 1889. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Dan Beard. Size: 12mo <7 3/4". xvi + 526pp. Hinges cracked. Spine cocked and faded. Split to base of front joint. Previous owner's inscription in ink. Edges browned. Covers marked. Corners bumped. Illustrator: Dan Beard. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Fiction. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 39078. .
Synopsis
The original American satiristCracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. Branded by Twain's aptitude for broad comedy and biting social satire, the grim truths of Twain's Camelot-fear, injustice, ignorance-resound as clearly now as when it was written
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- Dreadnought Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39078
- Title
- A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur
- Author
- Mark Twain
- Illustrator
- Dan Beard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- BZDB243 sci-fi, fiction, history Science Fiction & Fantasy; Fiction. Dan Beard Unbranded Mark Twain A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Science Fiction & Fantasy;
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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